Wendyfm

I feel alittle self centered as I like looking at my face in mirrors. I still have a hard time believing that it is me.

I stalled early on and then spent a month losing .5 pounds a week. I finally talked to my nurse practitioner and she said I was eating too few calories. I was eating 500 -800, when I increased my intake to around 1,000 I started losing again. I'm eating around 1,000 now and losing between one to two pounds a week. Not a lot,but slow and steady. I've now lost 40 pounds since surgery in July and seventy since last March.

It's just me and my two sons fr Christmas,so I won't have huge quanities of food on hand anyway. I will probably have a taste of pumpkin pie and alittle of everything. I'm pretty careful about sticking to my limit,especially after an episode of vomiting a few weeks ago,so not too worried.

Daily,but only record once a week.

I had surgery in July,and spent the day after surgery miserable,bad headache and vomiting ,I definitely had second thoughts! I've also been through the stalls and still have a difficult time hydrating, I get about 48 ounces a day. Now I am 70 pounds down and exersizing more and feeling better and looking better. Just keep plugging,it gets better.

I went threw this as well, about three weeks after surgery I was so tired that it was rediculous. It turns out that I no longer needed to take blood pressure Meds and the reason I was so tired was low blood pressure. As soon as I stopped taking blood pressure Meds. I felt better.

I tend to eat too fast. It is only taking me about twenty minutes to finish. I always have trouble with pork, which sits pretty heavy in my stomach. So I do have to chew that a lot, or it sits like a rock in my stomach. I've only foamed about three times and I have thrown up once. I am working on getting slower with my eating.

It was miralax

I had problems with constipation right after surgery,but took stool softeners and a laxative. Now I eat prunes every morning and that seems to work.

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For three months before surgery I was on a twelve hundred calorie diet, that was when I lost most of that thirty pounds.

I was on high protein low carb, 1,000 calorie diet for two weeks prep. I had 5 pounds to lose pre-op and ended up losing thirty. Post op. I was ice chips after surgery, clear liquids day one, which I promptly threw up. It was one or two ounces at a time. Day two continued to be clear because of vomiting day three full liquids, which I continued for three weeks, then two weeks of soft/puréed foos, then regular diet. With no less than 80 grams of carbs and no more than150 grams of carbs and between 1,000-1200 calories. I don't always make it to a 1,000 calories and have never eaten 1,200. If I go too far under 1,000 my weight loss slows way done.

I had surgery on a Monday at one and was discharged on Thursday at one. I stayed an extra day because of vomiting. I couldn't imagine same day surgery for this, or even leaving the following day. I spent the day following surgery miserable and throwing up.

It sounds like you should be ok. To go back to work from home the following week,but wow! Reading the post from Bariatric Hero has me dumbfounded. I was in the hospital for four days Monday through Thursday and didn't even drive for over a week. Although I was walking the next day and taking walks the day after I left the hospital.

I had the same problem and was told I was eating too few calories. I increased my calories to around a thousand and that worked for me. I've lost forty pounds since surgery in July and a total of seventy since last March.

I am five months in and started loosing hair like crazy last month. I am eating enough protein and faithfully taking vitamins. I luckily have thick hair. I got sick of finding hair strands everywhere so I just cut it really short.

I stalled earlier on and was told to try to keep my calories around 1,000 a day,to help with weight loss.

I had a sleeve on July seventh. I have lost a total of seventy pounds, thirty before surgery and forty after. The amount of weight I lose perweek varies. I lost twenty over the summer and twenty since Sept. I notice that I'm more successful when I keep my calories at around a thousand and if I drink more. If I go too low with my weight loss I stall.

After getting extremely constipated I started using Miralax and used it daily for a month a month a half. Now I eat prunes if I start to feel onstipated.

I had to have an endoscopy and a colonoscopy as part of pre-op stuff. For me this was a good thing .i had polyps and ulcers.which were treated, I al So had sleep Apnea,and so use a c-pap machine. Two weeks before surgery I had to go on a thousand calorie high protein low carb diet. Then three weeks of full liquid diet after, then two weeks of soft/puréed food and then normal diet.

I had a grandmother who I loved very much,but who was extremely obese. She lived until she was eighty five,but she was unhappy. She had heart problems and it was difficult for her to move. The older I get, the more I reminded myself of my grandma. I do not want to end up like her,unhappy and unable to move. Plus I have a fifteen year old son with Autism and I need to be able to take care of him.

I'm three months out and I can eat a slice of pizza ok,but dense meats ,like pork roast hurts after more than a couple of bites,pulled pork is ok. Chicken goes done the easiest. Oh and hamburger is even worse than pork roast,so If I want a burger I'll eat a veggie burger,these are bun less by the way.

I had some vomiting and stomach spasms the day after surgery and was pretty miserable,but I also had bad headache. By the next day I felt much better. They did keep me an extra day, just to make sure I could eat keep down the liquid diet. I have had one other bout of vomiting last week,but I think that was in reaction to some tough meat. Other than that there have been no issues.

I brought my C-PaP to the hospital and never used it. I had oxygen the first night. The next two nights just sort of forgot about it and my O2 levels stayed goo. I think it's because the head of my bed was up. I started using again as soon as I got home.

When you can easily get down on the floor to do push-ups and do the push-ups!