My name is Teresa and I am 7 days post op.......I am 43 and the mother of 2kids and finally decided that I needed to take control of my life and my weight. I am so looking forward to talking with and learning from those of you who have had the sleeve for a long time. I don't know what else to say. I hope to get support and encouragement and knowledge from this group. T

You came to the right place if you need great advice and encouragement and booty kicking when you need it. I love it here. People are so nice, or tough love when you need it. Congratulations on being sleeved and welcome to the losers bench :-)

I have only lost 2 or 3 pounds in my first 7 days. I keep reading where people are dropping as much as 20 pounds in their first week......this makes me feel a little bit blue. I keep wondering if I am doing something wrong. Can anyone offer me some advice on this or had a similar slow weight loss when they first had the sleeve?

No honey. You're doing find. The first week is when you're losing fluid weight from the hospital and not getting anything in. I gained 10 pounds in the hospital. I was down six... But everyone is different. If you go through and compare yourself to everyone on this site, your feelings will be hurt daily. Everyone's journey is different. Actually take time to recognise your victories instead of loathing that you've not lost x amount of pounds.

Yes, don't Compare yourself to others. You prob retained a lot of fluids from the iv's in the hospital. Consistancy is the key, make sure you keep hydrated, as hard as it may be also try to get your protein in.

I am 6 days post op and I actually gained 3 lbs in the hospital. I've had a really hard time finding 'food' I can tolerate post op. Everyone I speak to keep asking me how much weight I've lost and I wonder if they ever took a health or biology class before?!? Right now my body thinks its starving. You will never lose weight when your body enters starvation mode. I haven't succeeded yet at consuming the 48-64 oz of Fluid I'm supposed to get daily much less the 40-60 gm of Protein or the 500 calories. I'm just biding my time until I get past this diet phase and then hopefully when I can start adding more variety to my diet and I go back to work and become more active then the weight will start sliding off.

In the meantime I relax knowing the hard part (surgery) is over and I just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other now.

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Yes, don't Compare yourself to others. You prob retained a lot of fluids from the iv's in the hospital. Consistancy is the key, make sure you keep hydrated, as hard as it may be also try to get your Protein in.

Thank you. Today I added protein to everything. I need to really keep track. I want to get in at least 70 grams per day. 80 would be ideal. I don't drink plain Water. I have to have zero calorie flavored water.