Sensarah

Thank you all for your input. I am currently 7 weeks pregnant and so far everything looks great. I have been keeping on my healthy eating and just doubling up on my Vitamins. Both my surgeon and OBGYN are aware of my pregnancy and they are monitoring me closely.

Thank you all for your input. I am currently 7 weeks pregnant and so far everything looks great. I have been keeping on my healthy eating and just doubling up on my Vitamins. Both my surgeon and OBGYN are aware of my pregnancy and they are monitoring me closely.

It sounds like you may have been misinformed on some things, like being ok on food or the baby growing off the fat. It is absolutely imperative for your baby's health and development that you have a very knowledgable, capable doctor helping you through this. Please be very picky and very adamant on choosing one that has handled situations like yours. Pregnancy is tough on normal bodies, let alone ours in one of the biggest changes you'll experience in your lifetime. Prepare yourself and your family for the worst and pray for the best, and we'll be praying with ya.

No matter how it has happened, a baby is a blessing. I think through careful eating and monitoring by both your bariatric surgeon and your ob/gyn you will have it all covered. I do believe both need to be in contact with each other so that both you and the baby are healthy.
Please keep us posted and know you are in my prayers!
Clarissa

My plan says 18 months not 24 so hers might be like mine. Also not everyone does well on Birth control. Birth control is how I ballooned nearly to the weight I am. I have tried many, many birth control methods and none ever was a permanent thing I could do. To the OP good luck on your pregnancy. Tell your surgical team and have them work with the OB/GYN you choose.

My thoughts are that I hope you have a very good gyn that understands the surgery you just had done and can help you prevent any nutritional deficiencies that will impact your baby. I also hope you do not have a lot of nausea and can actually take Vitamins and eat your Protein.
Good luck!

Congratulations. I hope you have a super easy pregnancy and everything goes well for you and baby
Summer

I have decided to keep it. I hear that since I'm overweight the baby will feed off my current fat and I will just have to make sure to eat Protein PROTEIN PROTEIN! Since my body will be more tired since it's making a whole nother' little life inside of me.
I hear i'm okay in the food department but Vitamins are gonna be crucial. What are y'all thoughts?? I'm really against abortion and want to keep it.

Thank you ladies

My Weight Loss Nutritionist said that drinking the 2 Protein Drinks a day should also help us get past this hurdle AND to not forget about the Water too.

I am two weeks out and my weight-loss stopped also. I lost 20 pounds the first two weeks and now it has been four days and the scale has not moved except this morning I gained 1 pound. I know it's not from eating, Because I have not gone over 400 cal per day. I'm glad to hear that others are having the same experience and I'm anxious to get through this stall.

I'm 2 weeks out tomorrow and have lost 11 lbs total. I would say it's pretty normal at this point.

I am three weeks post op and I've only lost 22lbs so far.
Today I weighed one pound more than I was.I was 252 and now I'm 253. I've been following the rules!! Is this normal???

I am going through the same thing. I am 3 weeks post-op and I have not lost any weight in over a week. It's getting very frustrating. I have sought answers in this forum and they are calling it the 3-4 week stall. I am still in the middle of it, so I have not passed through it yet. But others are telling me that it is temporary and that the weight loss will continue after this hurdle. Hold on and we'll get there!

I'm 4 weeks post op. I did not lose any weight week 3. Now week 4 it's going down again. Have faith!

I had my RNY 3 months ago today and I felt the same exact way when I transitioned to solid foods. I added up my calories and I was only getting about 500-600 a day. I'll be honest, I don't worry about calories. I don't measure my meals either. I first make sure I am getting my Protein in every day and I really watch all of my carbs pretty closely. By the time I finish my Protein at meals my stomach is completely full. As far as fruits go, I try to stick to a few berries- blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, or strawberries as the carb count is lower. I also try to have a few bites of veggies at lunch and dinner. The protein and the carbs are the only things I watch really closely. As of today, 3 months to the day of my surgery, I have lost 75 lbs. I hope this helps. My best advice is the same thing that you have probably heard over and over - eat small bites and chew chew chew!

Let me say first off you are not alone. All of us have dealt with eating too much at one point in time or another. Me personally, I still struggle with putting way more on my plate than I am able to eat on a regular basis. I know when I do I tend to eat more than I should. I need to work to only take as much as I need each meal.
To your question, eating that fast will not make you gain weight in and of itself. It does however have the ability to stretch out your stomach faster because the food is not taking its time to move through it. Over time you would wind up inherently being able to eat larger and larger amounts which could cause you to lose weight.
Here are a couple things that worked really well for me post surgery. Firstly, the best piece of advice I every got is probably one of the strangest bits of advice that worked super well. You need to eat off of baby silverware. I just went to the baby section of Meijer and bought a pack of plastic silverware. It will keep you from taking too much in one bit at a time so it will actually take you a little bit longer to eat. It will also make you well aware of the amount of food you are taking in in a bit. I should only fit on the spoon. Another thing to this is to try to make a point to chew everything at least 10 times before swallowing. You will need to work at both of this for a bit while you get used to it. It took me a week or two of eating to get fully comfortable with it.
The other tip would be to divide your food serving into two or three sections and eat one section every ten minutes. If you find you still want to go after it before the ten minutes is up, put it in another room and just enjoy some dinner conversation.
Eating slowly will require you to eat very mindfully over the first few months, but before you know it the process will be second nature. You are not alone in your dilemma. Every surgery patient here would be lying if they said they had not dealt with this exact same issue.
Keep strong. It is a process. I know if you take these tips to heart you will do well. This is the start of your new life and your amazing journey that is solely yours. Embrace the journey and enjoy the ride. In the coming months you will learn things about yourself and you will be amazed at what you and your new body are capable of. I wish you the best of luck. If you every have any additional questions I will do what I can to help you out. You can contact me at any of the links below.
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Eating in 5 mins won't cause you to gain weight. You ate the proper portion. However, it won't keep you full for very long. 5 mins = 1 hour. So if you eat your meal in 25 mins, you should be full for the next 5 hours. It doesn't always work that way, at least for me, but when I eat slowly it does keep me fuller for longer. Not to mention that when you're eating all your dinner in 5 mins you're not giving the stomach time to release what's already in there, and you risk having pain from feeling extremely full.
Slow down and take your time. It definitely makes a difference. I'm guessing you're in the pureed food stage. When you start to eat solids you'll know you have to slow down.

If you didn't throw up it should be fine. It should absorb the same in the stomach and small intestines. Take a test in a few weeks to be sure, plan b does have a very small failure rate.

Hopefully for your sake it does... I was taking my birth control pills at surgery time and after and 5 days after my surgery I got my period like I would have if I stopped taking the pill - it was like it wasn't realizing I had birth control in my system at all.
However, Plan B is considerably stronger of a medication so fingers crossed for you. :-)