SageTracey

Good that you called dr. If you are dehydrated you need to concentrate on drinking plenty of water. Just keep sipping

I took two full weeks off and was not well enough to go back to my desk job any sooner. For me, it's the effect of the anaesthetic more than the actual surgery.

Don't rush back too soon.

See a dr as soon as possible. Most likely it is nothing but in the meantime you will worry, so do everything that you can to put your mind at ease as quickly as you can.

Great idea and a really easy to use tool for recording both your calories and exercise is myfitnesspal.com

good luck

I started off only telling immediate family because I didn't want negativity or to have people watching every mouthful and monitoring my progress. I have a team for that!

But now that I am six months out and 100lb down (yay!), I am becoming more comfortable telling people. I have succeeded so I guess a lot of the pressure or fear of failure is gone.

Either way, I feel it is a personal medical matter and I don't discuss my medical situation with everyone.

Set yourself a series of smaller, achievable goals on your way to the big one. And make sure you reward each succes, those you have planned and those that catch you buy surprise.

It's that period called bandster-hell. Your head tells you that you are healed and can eat, but of course you don't want to eat too much because that was why you had WLS in the first place. On the other hand, your body truly is still healing and eating, filling too soon will work against you in the long run.

My blender was my best friend during this period - I had two weeks of liquids followed by four weeks of mushies afte surgery so I learned to blend lots of foods - chicken, fish, vegies and then thin them with water, milk or yoghurts. The big thing for me was flavor - I used various sauces etc to give my foods flavor to help me through.

Good luck and stick with it. Your dr has put rules in place based on experience so it's best if you can work with him/her on these.

Shopping in normal clothes shops. Dancing all night. Hearing my husband ask me to slow down when we are out walking or cycling.

And after just six months I have enjoyed them all.

Keep your eye on your dreams and your NSV goals will all come to pass.

Hang tough. This is where you get to show the commitment that you promised yourself. It will be worth it in the end.