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You won't know for sure. What you need to do is let go of that worry and understand what all your body is going through right now. You had 80% of your stomach removed. Ok, think about it like this. Think about the hardest you've ever fell or been hit by something. Think of the deep bone level bruise you got. How long does it take to fully surface? A week? 10 days? Well, that's internal bleeding, coagulation, blood rising to the surface, your white blood cells flooding to the area, more blood to begin healing, the area is hot for weeks! The bruise will raise and take weeks to slowly heal and go away. Can be 6 weeks before the bruise disappears. And that's just from a blunt force trauma. Now imagine you have 80% of your stomach removed, you have hundreds of sutures/staples in there, you have 5-7 incisions points - each the equivalent to being stabbed by a knife. Now think about all the swelling and healing that requires? Think about all the processes in the body, the shock, the attempts to heal itself. Our bodies will retain water, send blood and fluid to the areas that need to heal, it will slow down the metabolism in order to promote healing and prevent weight loss as that is a primal process in our bodies. There is a lot of science behind why people don't lose or gain in the first few weeks post surgery and most of it is related to how the body behaves as it's healing. Don't waste another thought or worry on this!!!!!!!! Just focus on meeting your goals, I PROMISE you, you will begin dropping weight like crazy if you follow your post surgical stages and protocols. You are doing great, it's so hard and scary, I had a ton of these types of questions and only learned these answers from asking. I am so proud of all of us, TBH, we are SUCH badasses for doing this. You are gonna do great and you are totally OK.

The pain right now is a ten and I am nauseated. They want me to start sipping and taking oral pain medication. I am so scared of vomiting right now. I am ready for this week to be over. Sent from my SM-G930V using BariatricPal mobile app

Three weeks? I bet it's water weight. Out stomachs swell, we retain water, there is still swelling in your body. It's perfectly normal and natural.

How are u feeling? Was the pain bad? Sent from my Moto E (4) using BariatricPal mobile app

Probably not. They want to see that you can stick to the diet, follow instructions and are serious about making this change. Because you are going to be living high protein, low carb from surgery forward.

The most versatile would be a 12" Dewalt double bevel sliding MiterSaw. Get the folding stand for it too. Should handle most of what you need and still stow away reasonably.

Congrats on your surgery LJ! And congrats on not pukin'!!!

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What's a participation heading? To the left of your posts I see the following: Is that's what you're referring to?

My nutritionist was really intrigued when I brought her pix of my meals. She really seemed to enjoy having a new tool to evaluate what I was doing. Anytime I go in now she asks if I have photos:)