I was sleeved on July 20th and am very thankful for it. I just hate how my stomach still feels and looks so bloated. I have only lost 9 lbs. since surgery. I kinda thought it wouldbe more than that since all I am eating is protein shakes and eggs ( under 500 calories a day). I have started doing some light walking. I hope this is just me being impatient. Any words of wisdom to make me feel better would be great! I would love to hear your post op stories for the first few weeks.

Lasuber seems like you're doing good! How was the process with BCBS AL? Mine get submitted Monday!

My info got submitted on a Monday and they called Tuesday and said I was approved! Super fast!

Pound a day sounds pretty good to me

9lbs in 8 days? How fast did you expect this to happen?

My stomach was bloated 5 weeks out.

Day of surgery on a Monday I was 229. I came home on Friday, I weighed myself on Saturday morning and I weighed 235~!!! I was measured about 2 weeks before surgery. 2 weeks after surgery my stomach was 2 Inches LARGER!

They cut your entire stomach from one end to the top, it gets cauterized, stapled, glued. The inside of the tummy and the outside of the stomach are swollen. The amount of pulling and tugging and the gas they put inside you is a whole lot.

8 days after surgery I was just switching from Clear liquids to full liquids and I was on Full Liquids for 5 weeks straight. All doctor's are different, but one thing does remain the same, and that's you just had major surgery.

8 - 9 days after surgery what has been reported is that people start getting depressed a bit or "moody." The reality of the surgery and the finality of the surgery sets in and almost everyone has a little tiny bit of buyer's remorse. It's usually due to the anesthesia leaving the system and the hormone changes in your body. This is completely and utterly normal.

Right now, focus on healing. It took over 5 weeks for the swelling in my stomach to go down. I'm 8 weeks on Monday and last week I was pulling tree limbs from my yard, and I pulled my stomach muscles again and I swelled up a little bit, and I threw a stomach brace on. The swelling went down by the next morning.

If it really bothers you, a little ice pack once in a while won't hurt you.

Congrats on your weight loss. It will get better as you heal.