I ALWAYS gain 5-8lbs during my monthly cycle and then loose it. I know it's coming and even though I was sleeved on the 6/17th I figured weight loss would slow...not that I would gain at all!! I gained .8 lbs from yesterday!!! How do I stop this before it makes me crazy!!! I know it wasn't even a a whole pound but it was enough to scare the crap out of me.

Here's what you do... You take your scale, and you hide it deep within a closet for 10 days (atleast).

It's Water weight girl...not fat. It will flush out just like it always does. Just don't go bazerk on chocolate and ice cream and you will be just fine. Why would your body's fluctuations with weight change just because you got sleeved? But again...it's water weight and absolutely normal.

Here's what you do... You take your scale' date=' and you hide it deep within a closet for 10 days (atleast).

It's Water weight girl...not fat. It will flush out just like it always does. Just don't go bazerk on chocolate and ice cream and you will be just fine. Why would your body's fluctuations with weight change just because you got sleeved? But again...it's water weight and absolutely normal. <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />[/quote']

Thank you...I guess I just needed to hear it from someone else. I go in to be weighed and get my staples out tomorrow. I need this to work. It HAS to work! Not only for myself.....but also for my father! If I can work my sleeve right and keep my head in the game, my dad will also have the surgery! So whatever it takes I HAVE TO ROCK THIS SLEEVE!

Yup...throw that scale far far away! You just got sleeved....shouldn't be weighing in already anyways. As for the Tom gain, happens to me as well. You know that it does, so this shouldn't bother you at all! During my losing phase I would look forward to my Tom, because although I would gain about 4-6 pounds right before it....as soon as it was over I would start dropping pounds like crazy for the next week and a half. My biggest loss after my Tom was 12 pounds in one week!! And that is not including the water weight btw. Stop fretting...lol good luck

Drink as much water as you can!

Yep, like clockwork, I gained at least three pounds during my cycle every single month. In fact, my personal weight loss pattern for every month, even the first one, was to remain at the same weight for about the first three weeks of the month. I'd bump up for my cycle, and in the last week to ten days of the month I'd shed all my weight for the month all at once.

Put the scale away or you'll make yourself nuts. Your body is going to do what it wants and you can't help that.

~Cheri