Rainbow_Warrior

2 kg the first two weeks (or 4 pounds 5 ounces).
Stop worrying.
Once your stitches/holes have healed and you eat to your plan and start daily exercise, a good trend usually begins.
I'm 8.5 months post-op and not concerned that I have occasional "flat" weeks. The trend s good.

I referred last year to my need to feel more comfortable driving my car.
Back then, my gut/stomach was just 5mm to 7mm (under half an inch) away from the steering wheel.
Well, thanks to a smaller arse/backside, I have moved my seat about 40mm (1.5") closer to the steering wheel ... but the gap is out to 155mm (6.5") or more.
I'm really enjoying being sleeved!

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

My surgeon told me that I had to lose weight to shrink my liver and he didn't mind how I did it - using a branded diet plan or real food. Just so long as he could hoist my liver out of the way, he didn't care.
So I chose real food and lost 28lbs in a month. I had no problems with digestion.
However, the liquid post op diet has left me constipated. Weird, innit?

Yes, I looked forward to leaving 7XL and 6XL shirts, 66-inch waist work-slacks and 9X track-pants behind.
Today is 35 weeks since surgery. 47 kg (104 pounds) lighter.
I'm wearing 2XL and some XL shirts/polos. My slacks are 48-inch waist. I'm in 4X track-pants. My shoes are looser on my feet.
I used to be 15mm from belly to bottom of my car steering-wheel. (Half an inch for American readers.)
Now I am 155mm (6.5") from flatter belly to the steering-wheel (and because of my smaller arse, my seat is a few notches closer to the front of the car too).

Finally made it to 100+ pounds (46+ kg) off in just under 10 months after I first met the surgeon.
That's 7 months since surgery and over 30 kg (66 pounds) lost.
The attached pic is a selfie taken on the bus home from the Australian movie "Breath" two days ago.

A much thinner face but a fair bit of loose chin skin.

Contrasting over 11.5 months.
First pic in red beanie is from mid-May 2017 ... five months before surgery and about 177kg (390 pounds). BMI = 57.13
Second pic from less than two weeks ago (i.e late April) ... six and a bit months post surgery ... at 131kg (289 pounds) & BMI 42.3.
The two pics were taken on the same verandah less than a metre apart 11.5 months time-lapse. Interesting that I happened to be wearing the same sports pullover/top both days. (There's a 'shipload' of spare space in that top now!)

Maybe you're not getting enough fibre ... Consider adding two to four teaspoons of Benefiber to your shakes to keep your bowels 'in tune'. (Water depletion is reason # 2).

I referred last year to my need to feel more comfortable driving my car.
Back then, my gut/stomach was just 5mm to 7mm (under half an inch) away from the steering wheel.
Well, thanks to a smaller arse/backside, I have moved my seat about 40mm (1.5") closer to the steering wheel ... but the gap is out to 155mm (6.5") or more.
I'm really enjoying being sleeved!

I referred last year to my need to feel more comfortable driving my car.
Back then, my gut/stomach was just 5mm to 7mm (under half an inch) away from the steering wheel.
Well, thanks to a smaller arse/backside, I have moved my seat about 40mm (1.5") closer to the steering wheel ... but the gap is out to 155mm (6.5") or more.
I'm really enjoying being sleeved!

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

AWESOME RESULTS! Congrats!!

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

2 kg the first two weeks (or 4 pounds 5 ounces).
Stop worrying.
Once your stitches/holes have healed and you eat to your plan and start daily exercise, a good trend usually begins.
I'm 8.5 months post-op and not concerned that I have occasional "flat" weeks. The trend s good.

No.
I'm in the fortunate position to have kept several sizes of clothes I passed through on the way up. So now, I use each smaller size on the way down.
I have lashed out and bought new underwear every couple of months.
And for exercise, I swim ... so I have bought a new smaller swimsuit each 6-7 weeks since surgery. (I went 27 years without pools/beaches for swimming so I needed to actually buy swim shorts and rashies.

It's not our place to be judgmental.
Did you like speculation and comments of others about your obesity when you were larger?
Give the public figures and celebs a break.

Elforman. Yes I completely understand and it annoys me so much. Just because someone is religious does not mean that it needs to be put in your face. A simple wishing you well would suffice.

We just don't get the people who view life through the lens of a higher being (and if I lump the agnostics in here too, a specific higher being that has will and intent, etc etc). That's not being above or below, it's just speaking two different languages. I have a pretty hard time with Chinese characters (though I find them fascinating), because my mind works really well with the order system of phonetic alphabets, but I'm sure there are English-speaking kids who have a rough time with phonics but would be AMAZING at writing and reading Chinese characters since they're a method of symbol-building that's a lot more visual. As far as I'm concerned, those who believe in God are working in Chinese while I'm working in English. Would I find it difficult to understand if they suddenly phrased an English get-well sentence in a structural form closer to Chinese? Probably! Would I prefer if they expressed themselves to me in our common language where the intent was clearer? Also probably! (I would also resist speaking to them in iambic pentameter or lapsing into medieval english, so the road goes both ways.)
We could also look at this through the context of superstition. If you believe that stepping on a crack will actually break your mother's back, okay. I can roll with that. Just don't get weird about me stepping on cracks, and I'm going to find it pretty annoying if my mom gets sick and you tell me that you hope she gets better and that you'll be extra-vigilant in helping me to avoid stepping on cracks. That's your thing, not mine, so... What's the point in introducing your belief system when you know I don't give a toss about it? Especially when you're supposedly trying to be there for me in some way?
Personally I don't really care about the whole "prayers" thing, though my mind might change if I was constantly surrounded by it. I can brush it off because it's an aberration, not a constant low-key brainwashing attempt to normalize religious culture in secular space. Either way, when offering sympathy it's nice to offer empathy too. If you're talking to a religious person and you're not religious, resist any urge to get into atheist debate while they're talking about their cat going to heaven. If you're religious talking to an atheist, maybe strip out some of the God-language when telling them how you're thinking of them after their parrot died.
Proselytizing is an activity that has its time and place, no matter what brand you're pushing.