I had my first follow up visit today and I'm only down half a pound from the day of surgery. However, as the doc points out, on the morning of surgery I was stone cold empty - no fluids, gastro tract fairly well scrubbed out - whereas now I have probably a couple of pounds in the plumbing at any given time. So I'm really probably down slightly.

I expected this, as I had lots of steroids at the time of surgery...in fact I was relieved not to be up. But still, looking forward to actually being down.

Next visit May 16th. Betcha I'm down by then!

Virginia...it also looks like you lost 35lbs pre-op!! That is a really significant amount of weight and don't discount that!!

Don't forget about the IV fluids! Depending on how long you had an IV you could have gotten a significant amount of fluids that add up, too.

The most important thing is that you are apparently healing well and with your great attitude, by May 9 you are definitely likely to be a "loser". Hang in there!