Wondering why
Hi guys.
Well, I am officially 1 month post-op today. I am thurougly frustrated.I am
down 31.9 lbs and have not lost ANY weight in over a week!
I have now been going to the gym and walking on the treadmill, and I follow my
diet as I am supposed too. The only thing I have been a bad girl with is my
fluid intake. I only get in about 3 glasses a day. Could that be causing this?
Any suggestions? Or am I getting neurotic?
-heather
September 25th, 2003 at 12:24 pm
am down 31.9 lbs and have not lost ANY weight in over a week!
Wondering why?
Well, perhaps your body loses in this pattern. Perhaps you lost really fast
and it needs to catch up. Perhaps your body is healing your liver or
kidneys or eyes or something right now instead of sloughing off pounds.
There is NO WAY any body can lose every single day after WLS. Our bodies do
a lot more than just drop pounds off the scale to please us. IF we are
eating correctly, exercising, etc. there is NO WAY we will stay at a BMI
that qualified us for surgery in the first place… NO WAY. If you are
exercising for the first time ever, or exercising WELL for the first time in
ages, you are building muscle which weighs more than fat, yet is more
compact… AND burns way more calories than your old fat does, so,
eventually, you *will* lose more weight.
RELAX!!!!!! GET OFF THE SCALE!!!!!! ENJOY THE RIDE!!!!!
Focus on those wondrous ways your life has changed in such a short amount of
time! What can you do now that you couldn’t do a month ago. AND… when in
your LIFE have you lost 31.9 pounds (is your scale accurate enough?) in one
month and pretty much knew it would NEVER come back? This is *not* another
diet! This is your new LIFE! Watching the scale like this will make you a
crazed woman by the time you are 3 months out. Let go of the shackles of
the scale… your life will be MUCH happier in the long run.
(*whew* was that harsh or what? *smiling wink to those who know me!*)
Barbara Herrera
San Diego, CA (temporarily residing in El Paso, TX)
40 years old
Open RNY April 5, 2001
Dr. Julie Ellner, Alvarado Hospital, San Diego, CA
4/5/01: 344# BMI 63
3/14/02: 170# BMI 31.1 (Twice the woman I once was!)
No more Diabetes, GERD, IBS, PCOS, stress incontinence, sleep apnea,
snoring, joint pain, or immobility
Continuing to discover a life I never knew existed!
September 25th, 2003 at 5:47 pm
In a message dated 3/18/02 6:59:01 PM Pacific Standard Time,
hdubin@… writes:
Ummmmm…maybe? 31 pounds is still a pound a day!!! I think it’s fantastic
loss.
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Lap RNY Oct. 15, 2001 -148
Dr. PA Aslam- Augusta Maine
September 26th, 2003 at 12:28 am
Heather GET A GRIP! Could not drinking water be causing a plateau so that
you haven’t lost any weight in a week? While you need to drink more water I
would assume that what is causing your plateau is the fact that in the first
21 days you LOST MORE THAN 1 pound a day and your BODY NEEDED TO TAKE A
BREAK! You are upset about this? Good grief. YOu are going to have a long
first year if you are upset about this first month lost. YOu ARE being
neurotic about this. THROW THE DAMN SCALE AWAY and you won’t even notice
week long plateaus. Truthfully, you are being so unrealistic about your
weight loss. NO one is going to lose weight every day or every week. I dont
care if you are only two weeks out your body can plateau. The best way to
avoid a plateau is to quit weighing and then you won’t know about it.
HEY PREOPS and new postops — I will say it again, YOU NEED TO BE REALISTIC
ABOUT YOUR WEIGHT LOSS! Heather unless you have over 300 pounds to lose you
have lost more than 10% of your excess weight. By the end of the first two
weeks you should 5 to 10% … by three months 25%. By six months 50% and by
a year a minimum of 75%. That is AVERAGE weight loss. Anything more than
that is gravy. So quit worrying. And quit being — not getting but being –
neurotic.
Denise Rasley
mailto:drasley@…
BTC, Columbus, 10/7/98
Lost over 90% of excess and maintaining
Gained a beautiful daughter on 8/9/00
September 26th, 2003 at 5:15 pm
Denyse,
I have not been told I much is my excess weight. I have had VBG on
October 22, 2001. I was 5′4” and 270 pounds (medium frame). As of
today I have lost 75 pounds. In order to calculate my % of excees
weiht loss I need to know my excess. I figure out that i shoulf be
130 pounds and that my excess weight was 140 pounds. I am right?
Sylvia
September 28th, 2003 at 5:58 pm
In a message dated 03/19/02 10:54:25 AM Pacific Standard Time,
msgardenia@… writes:
Hi Heather!!
Barbara !! you said it all….nearly (LOL)
one thing i have taught myself; i am not the number that shows up on the
scale. and i DEFINITELY don’t do the scale 5x/day, daily or even weekly.
it’s once a month for me. and i like that just fine….i’m done giving that
beastly little device any kind of power over how i feel !!
Heather, please understand, this is not a diet !! you are not losing weight
in the same circumstances as a diet; no nice and steady downward
slope…this is a step process..
for me, first 2 wks post-op i lost 35 lbs OMG !!
next 2 weeks, i lost 3 lbs….omg!!
next 9 days 8 lbs….next 21 days…11 lbs..
yikes…what in the world was going on??!!!!!!!!!!!????
i’m sick, the surgery didn’t work, i broke it, the dr made mistakes….blah
blah blah…UGH!
my dr at our last appt (90 days post-op) finally said the right words that
made sense to me: this is a step process. your body is in charge. it is
working damn hard. it has to still recover from the surgery, get used to the
new changes and then incorporate those changes into my every day life…
so fuel it and fluid it well, exercise, play and sleep well. Enjoy the
changes and the new you and don’t sweat the scale.
i hope this helps.
pearl