January Newbies ! Progress ?

[chelseaj07 7]

4 weeks out today! Broke my two week stall this week and lost 6lbs. That is a total of 23lbs since surgery!

[carvel23 7]

I was sleeve on jan 21 and I've lost 23 lbs I feel good and am very happy

[jjjennifer 9]

Isn't it so magical? I had my op on 11/29 and am down 35 pounds including 12 pre op. I feel like myself again. I have had some difficulty learning my new anatomy and what I am able to eat. To slow in between bites etc and wait wait to see if that was the last bite. But other than the learning curve it has been down down down every week! So thrilled!

[lexie2013 0]

I was sleeved on 1/23. My starting weight was 250lbs before I started my pre-op diet. I lost 7 lbs during those two weeks and I have lost an additional 9 lbs since surgery. I am now down to 234! the pre op diet was definitely the hardest part for me. It was horrible to be starving and not be able to eat. Now, it's a lot easier because I don't feel hungry. I love my new sleeve! I cannot wait to see how the next few months go. Wish me luck!

[temeculamum 7]

I was sleeved on the 21st an I have only lost 12lbs. I am very disappointed in my weightless.

Don't be disappointed. I had surgery on the 24th and I'm done 14 so we aren't much different. You will drop the weight!!

[temeculamum 7]

Protein Drink they sale at GNC each one cost about 5.00 but they sale them by the case it suppose to taste like Gatorade

Thank you for the update on the Protein drink info. Geez, 5.00 bucks is kind of pricey I would say for one drink though.

[kimmy42083 1]

Surgery was 1/30. So far I have GAINED 6 pounds! I'm so depressed and stressed about it. It has to be Water weight, but still...

[zoekids 120]

Surgery was 1/30. So far I have GAINED 6 pounds! I'm so depressed and stressed about it. It has to be Water weight, but still...

I gained too. I hear this is very normal. I had a friend who gain 15 lbs from the surgery.

Mary

[robinagogo88 12]

I had surgery on 1/14. I had my post-op appt. with my surgeon on Wed. and he read me the riot act because I moved to purees on my own (because my packet from the dietician said I could!) Darn it. Back on full liquids for one more week. He said to take advantage of this low calorie phase and do aerobics (huh? what?) because once we start eating more calories it'll come off harder. And I caught this monster cold on Tuesday and have been flat on my back since. Urgh. And I'm dehydrated so I've been sipping constantly with a timer that goes off every 15 minutes trying to get all my liquid in. I honestly have to admit that it's so much harder than I thought it would be--and I knew it would be hard. As of this morning, I've lost 19 lbs. since the day of surgery. So, I guess it's going as well as can be expected. I have to be honest in saying I've had a couple of "what was I thinking?" moments, but I just tell myself to get over it an move on. I know once this cold is gone I'll be more positive.

Sorry for writing a novel. Keep up the hard work, everyone!

[raalex1 3]

21 pounds pre-op diet and 12 pounds 3 weeks out.

[kellimcc 11]

I had my surgery last Tuesday, the 22nd. At my 1 week post op appointment I weighed in at 256, on January 8th I went on the 2 week pre op liquid diet and weighed 285 LBS that morning, I couldn't be happier right now!

[leyvis 5]

Went to my doctor on wend and I weight 255 surgery day was 267 only 12 pound loss. Losing slow but losing.

[fonally 107]

Yes it does. I took some the first few days afterwards I got the meltaways that just go on your tongue.

My Dr says Gas X is for stomach gas very different from the gas they blow you up with. It works great for stomach gas but does nothing for trapped air. All you can do for trapped air is walk it off because that movement allows the gas to break down and be absorbed. I know because I had a liver biopsy same time as my sleeve and they used extra gas and moved a lot of parts around so I had horrible pain in my left shoulder and below that for two weeks!! The Dr said some people take longer to get that type of gas out but when he said I should be walking two city blocks a day minimum I realized I had not been walking enough. I hope this helps.

[fonally 107]

Don't be disappointed. I had surgery on the 24th and I'm done 14 so we aren't much different. You will drop the weight!!

You cannot judge yourself by others weight loss because we don't have the same metabolism and our weight differs greatly as does our genetics. Look at it this way one lb a day is 52 pounds a year. Fast or slow we will get it off and it is better than our prospects before. Turn your thinking around and do what I do I picture a five pound tube of hamburger meat at the grocery store. I think how much fat that is! then when you think of fat loss think I have lost almost three of those!! Go to the grocery store and hold three in your arms...now you can see how well your doing. I lost 20 lbs in two weeks but one the next week. It doesn't matter who lost what when what matters is we are all going to be proud of what WE have done. I think everyone of us are winners. We took a huge risk to save our lives. We are heroes.

[mizzzliza 113]

Don't be disappointed. I had surgery on the 24th and I'm done 14 so we aren't much different. You will drop the weight!!

I had surg 1/9 and I'm only down 15. My doc says it looks like I'm a 'slow loser'. Kinda depressing but at least the scale is going in the right direction.