I've been sleeved

[Malaika 50]

OMG - I stepped on the scale this morning and since surgery I've been losing about 1 lb. a day ... this morning I was down 6.6. I reweighed myself 3 times and everytime it was the same.

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?

Okay - so I stepped on the scale and I'm UP 3.0 lbs.???? I reweighed 3x since I couldn't believe my eyes and then my heart sunk to my toes ... still lodged there I believe.

The only thing I can even think it might be is the Soup I had for dinner last night. I've never liked Soups for the fact they have way to much sodium in them for my tastes; however, I didn't notice that with last night's dinner (and today's lunch). Although this morning my fingers are swollen and my rings are tight, so I am guessing it's from the sodium.

So I don't know if I should weigh once a week, take a knife and slash my wrists (only kidding on this), sit down and cry or what !?!

Anyone else have this problem post-op?

:tongue_smilie: :sad0:

[Jaffa 5]

I have this problem big time in general. If I eat any Soup that is not low sodium, I gain about 3lbs of Water. Soup at most any place you eat out at, will be LOADED.

Bad news, it seems to only go away by about a half a pound a day. I avoid sodium as much as possible. If I eat something with a lot of sodium, I avoid the scale. It is the only way to sanity.

[MacMadame 81]

I think you should stop weighing yourself so much. It sounds like you are person who gains and loses Water easily and that's going to make your scale fluctuate and drive you insane.

OTOH, maybe you just need to change the batteries in your scale? ? (Assuming it has them.)

[Eyfura 3]

Stop weighing yourself daily!!! LOL You are just torturing yourself, I weigh myself, at the most, every 3-4 days, I try to wait a week, but right now that is hard. The thing is your body can go up and down so easy there is no point in doing it daily. Especially if you end up getting upset if it does go up one day. Just enjoy knowing that in the long run it will go down!!!

[Ruthi 60]

I weigh every day too. Someone would have to remove it from my house to keep me from it. I have no self control on some things.

[Elisabethsew 50]

Until you're on solids for a few weeks, your weight is going to fluctuate a lot. It's best to weigh weekly. I had a 3 week period of time when I lost nothing and I was eating 600 cals max a day. I believe it was my body getting back in balance after the surgery and the month of post-op different diets. Now that I am on solids and have a healthy diet, I am losing each week.

A pound is 3,700 calories. I am SURE your Soup did not contain 3 x that amount to make you gain 3 pounds. LOL.

[Malaika 50]

I have this problem big time in general. If I eat any Soup that is not low sodium, I gain about 3lbs of Water. Soup at most any place you eat out at, will be LOADED.

Bad news, it seems to only go away by about a half a pound a day. I avoid sodium as much as possible. If I eat something with a lot of sodium, I avoid the scale. It is the only way to sanity.

I never order soup out -- it is just not my favorite thing and always tastes way too salty. I don't salt anything, so everything always tastes more salty to me than others. I don't eat any frozen dinners for that same reason.

It's just right now, I'm trying to find something that tastes good and has some flavor.

I think you should stop weighing yourself so much. It sounds like you are person who gains and loses Water easily and that's going to make your scale fluctuate and drive you insane.

OTOH, maybe you just need to change the batteries in your scale?? (Assuming it has them.)

I think I will quit weighing myself .. and the scale has brand new batteries in them - changed them the day after I got home from the hospital.

Thanks all.

[Malaika 50]

So I took the advice of the majority and avoided the scale this morning ... although it was there, in the kitchen, calling my name :tongue_smilie: I resisted the urge. It will only be an issue in the morning, as I have never had a desire to weigh in the afternoon/evening.

So now I will need to quiet those voices in my head saying "weigh, weigh. You know you want to..."

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

So I took the advice of the majority and avoided the scale this morning ... although it was there, in the kitchen, calling my name :tongue_smilie: I resisted the urge. It will only be an issue in the morning, as I have never had a desire to weigh in the afternoon/evening.

So now I will need to quiet those voices in my head saying "weigh, weigh. You know you want to..."

I was obsessed with the scale when I was losing. Three times a day usually. HA!

[MacMadame 81]

A pound is 3,700 calories. I am SURE your Soup did not contain 3 x that amount to make you gain 3 pounds. LOL.

But it might have had that much sodium! :laugh:

[Oregondaisy 2,020]

I weigh every morning and before bed. I have ever since band surgery. I like to know where I stand.

[Rosebud2 26]

I've never understood where weight goes when you sleep. You can weigh before you go to bed and when you get up in the morning you weigh 2 pounds less. Where did it go?

[Oregondaisy 2,020]

good question. sometimes I weigh the same before bed as I do in the morning though.

[Jaffa 5]

OH MY GOD, I know the answer to this.

The average person uses about 2lbs of Water while they sleep. Part of it is through constant evaportion from your skin and actually goes in to your matress and sheets. The other part is Water vapor lost while you breath in and out.

It is so wonderful to finally, know something. Well maybe?

[Jaffa 5]

BTW....they did a mythbusters episode on this theory, and they decided that it wasn't a myth. They weighed the matress with super accurate scales before and after a person slept on it. They controlled so many variables I never even thought of like humidity and temp. The matress gained about a pound. They said, that the rest was lost in the form of Water vapor in your breathing?

They also noted that this amount is definitely affected by the amount of humidity in the air.