Hi all -

Well here I am finally -- I've tried to get online since about 4; however, I wasn't able to stay awake long enough to read or type anything.

Pre-testing was yesterday and all went well. Ernesto picked us up at 7 am this morning and we came to the hospital. We waited about 30 minutes as they were cleaning our rooms. Then they came and got Ruthi and tooker her to her room and I waited some more. Then the internest wanted to question me with regard to some of my allergies. Also informed me that my blood work showed a slight UTI. None of this prohibited my surgery, Thank God. So to my room I went.

Disrobed and got in the lovely hospital gowns provided by the hospital and waited. Dr. Aceves and one of his assistans (not Dr. Campos, he isnt here right now) came to see if I had any questions and give a brief synopsis of what he had talked about yesterday. Various nurses were in and out - blood pressure, temperature, Lucy to give me my happy pills ... and then we were off to the operating room .. I remember being wheeled into the OR and I remember absolutely NOTHING after that until they were waking me up in recovery.

I was taken from recovery to my room. And have pretty much been sleeping of and all all day.

My surgery went great - Dr. Aceves said it was a very easy surgery and he also repaired a small hiatal hernia. He said the entire surgery took 1:07 minutes and I passed the first leak test.

He has been in 3 times to check on me and Lucy was here a few times too. I've had one pain shot and that was just a bit ago when the pain moved from my left shoulder blade to right under my left breast. Thank God for my heating pad. I have taken a few walks - twice to the bathroom and twice around the floor .. down to to talk with Ruthi and Becki. Becki leaves tomorrow. Ruth and I are here until Monday. There is a gal next door to Ruth who had the lapband and she came from Arkansas. She didn't even know what the sleeve was, so we tried to explain it to; however, I don't she "got" it. She goes home tomorrow too.

I will be glad for tomorrow when I can have some sips of Water, my throat is so dry from the breathing tube ... other than that I feel good (with the exception of the gas moving around - I think that means I'll probably start passing it soon ... walking definitely does help)

Well, I am going to go and try and read some posts -- I think I have about 4 pages worth. Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers.

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 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.)

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!!!

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.

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.

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.

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..."

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!

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:

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

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?

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

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?

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.

Thank you!!! I never knew the reason.