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I am still in the hospital,being discharged tomorrow. He did a hiatal hernia repair as well, all is well so far..I am hungry!! Can you believe it, hope I have good restriction when I am able to eat solids! Will update tomorrow when get home,,, thank you very much again for your support,...

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Get some rest Vickie. I look forward to hear an update later in the next few days.

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Glad u r ding well.

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thanks everyone! I am home today and other than being a little sore, i feel ok...Actually Im starving...does anyone know if this is normal...I thought I would lose my appetite?..You guys are great...without this forum, I dont know what I would do...I have a JP drain and 4 incisions..I weighed 2 lbs more today than the day of surgery, i see here this is normal...hope it starts to come off soon..I go for my post op on the 9th...hope to start moving the scales down then...LOL....

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May I share something with you? Don't focus on the scale. Focus on getting yourself healthy. The weight will come off when you commit to the program. The best advice I got was to log everything - and I still do [nearly 7 months from surgery]. When my caloric intake is 500 calories less than my output [buy a cheap pedometer please or Nike Fuel Band], you'll lose 2-3 lbs per week. It works. But focus on the program - not the scale. JMHO and good luck

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Thanks gc, noted. I do have a pedometer, and of course I did this for my health first and foremost,, but i really cant imagine anyone having GB and not getting on the scale...Not sure what a fuel band is, let me know because any little bit helps!

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Sorry, a Fuel Band is just a fancy pedometer that also calculates calories burned.

I suggest that the focus on the scale should be less important than other measures. For example, my success was getting off 7 prescription drugs that I needed prior to surgery due to my unhealthy lifestyle. My weekly blood work reports became all-important to me as I moved my A1C/blood pressure and cholesterol numbers to something near-normal. And I began to clock my exercise in miles per day. I'd like to suggest that those data points were much more meaningful to me than my scale readout at the end of each week. JMHO and wishing you good luck in all that you pursue.

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Thanks again gc..I am so glad you are reaching your milestones, I guess because I had wt loss surgery prior to this I had reached a normal A1C 5 yrs ago and all my meds were reduced or eliminated...now it is a question of getting my wt in check for any future potential problems and for my arthritis..knees. back, and neck...I am going to look for the fuel band and i think it would be interesting to see how many calories i can burn once I can walk some distance. I really appreciate all the feed back and advice i get on this site..yours included,...I will try to keep the numbers on the scale secondary to other goals, I think your right, Its just hard sometimes, especially being a woman...thank you for everything, and I think when i list my goals on my signature It will be non numerical goals!! :) good luck gc and I hope to talk to you again in the future. take care, It is good to read positive quotes!

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Thanks again gc..I am so glad you are reaching your milestones' date=' I guess because I had wt loss surgery prior to this I had reached a normal A1C 5 yrs ago and all my meds were reduced or eliminated...now it is a question of getting my wt in check for any future potential problems and for my arthritis..knees. back, and neck...I am going to look for the fuel band and i think it would be interesting to see how many calories i can burn once I can walk some distance. I really appreciate all the feed back and advice i get on this site..yours included,...I will try to keep the numbers on the scale secondary to other goals, I think your right, Its just hard sometimes, especially being a woman...thank you for everything, and I think when i list my goals on my signature It will be non numerical goals!! :) good luck gc and I hope to talk to you again in the future. take care, It is good to read positive quotes![/quote']

FYI!!! Forget restriction, there's really no restriction with RNY. You just get full. Coming from a former bandster, it's a whole different (and much better) ball game. And yes, it will likely get better on solids.

HW 312, pre-op (RNY) 255, current weight 202.6

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Thanks LAGB....Your doing phenomenal!

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Thanks LAGB....Your doing phenomenal!

Thanks :-) u will be too:)

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