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Weigh-in Thursdays will be awesome. Don't be afraid to post a week with a gain or no loss! You may not have lost all of your surgery gain. My surgeon said that it takes some people longer than others to un-swell.

I have already lost 20 lbs since surgery. I kind of got worried it was so quick.

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I have already lost 20 lbs since surgery. I kind of got worried it was so quick.

I've lost 8 since surgery. 18 since starting preop liquids.< /p>

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I didn't have either of those, but both are very common. In fact, many surgeons routinely remove the gallbladder during these procedures. This is because losing a large amount of weight can freak out your gallbladder.

On a different note, I wasn't logging well and today I really focused on documenting. Bad news, I only got 26 oz. so far. This is way short of my goal of 40. It's just so hard. I'm already sick of Jello and pudding. I know, I never thought I would be sick of pudding but I am. All I can think about is cottage cheese, liver wurst, braunschweiger, pâtés, and the like. I am sick of sugar-free! I thought I would be vegan but the thought of that is a complete turn-off. I will still be organic, but it looks like veganism isn't in my near future. Maybe I will change my mind again, who knows how this strange journey will continue.

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I did not, but I had my gallbladder out about 5 years ago, the soreness will go away! Goodnight everyone :)

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I have already lost 20 lbs since surgery. I kind of got worried it was so quick.

Wow! 20 lbs in the past 5 days or since the pre op diet? I lost 15 on the pre op diet and waiting to see what else on Thursday!

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How is everyone doing this Wednesday!? I'm still struggling to get all my liquids in but doing pretty well with the Protein shakes... pain is minimizing but I still can't sleep well. I have to take shots in my belly (blood thinner)even I'm getting used to those! Overall I'm improving, hope you all are doing well!

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I'm sleeping better, but nowhere near good.

Oh I feel you on those heparin shots. I'm still bruised and I was off them Sunday.

I am progressing but I'm not getting my liquids in either. I'm sitting at 30 oz a day, far short of my goal.

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I too am not getting all of my liquids in. :(. I am not sleeping well, and unless I take pain meds every 4 hours I can't stand the pain. I am hoping things get better Friday when this drainage tube comes out. I've never been a scale person so I don't even own one (and even after this surgery I have no desire to own one), so it will be interesting to see how much I've lost when I go to the Dr. Friday.

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I'm having an issue getting all my liquids in too but I'm actually sleeping very well and today was my first day I didn't take pain meds and it wasn't too bad :) getting there!

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Weigh-in Thursdays will be awesome. Don't be afraid to post a week with a gain or no loss! You may not have lost all of your surgery gain. My surgeon said that it takes some people longer than others to un-swell.

It's weigh in Thursday!

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Weigh in time!

Start weight before pre op diet: 290.1

Surgery Day: 274.9

Today: 266.1

Total lost- 24.5 lbs! Yay! :)

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Highest weight: 383

Pre-surgery weight: 359

Current weight: 361

I gained 18 after surgery and I am still very swollen, I fully expect to show a serious loss next week.

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In not getting all the liquids or Protein I'm trying. Remember ladies we are only a week out of surgery. Pre diet weight 259 surgery day weight 252 today weight 247.3.

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Starting weight 230

Day of surgery after 3 day liquid diet 225

Today 211.5

We are all going to lose at different rates, depending on starting weight, age, etc. we got this! We are all going to rock it. :)

Oh, btw, I'm short! Lol 5.2

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Great Job everybody! We're all gonna lose at different rates and everyone is losing which is awesome! Yay August 22nd!

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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