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Hi, I was sleeved on Monday the 21st so its been 4 days, I'm doing everything right but I've actually gained a pound. This is so frustrating

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Way too soon to be frustrated, plenty of time for that :) We've all been there, and I understand that it just can't come off fast enough! But it's normal to gain a little in the beginning, it's just Water weight from the insult to your body from the surgery. Just follow your plan and the scale will drop. And - it's normal to not lose at all for periods of time, and it's normal to see a big drop for no apparent reason. Weight just doesn't come of in a predictable way, but I do think your body is shifting and adjusting all the time. Good luck.

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I gained 10 pounds in the hospital. My MD warned me (it was all Water weight). In two weeks I had just barely returned to pre-surgical weight. BUT, since then I lose slowly but consistantly!

Don't expect a sprint. Expect a long slow process (This is forever, remember -- your stomach will not grow back).

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Hi, I was sleeved on Monday the 21st so its been 4 days, I'm doing everything right but I've actually gained a pound. This is so frustrating

Do me a favor...Don't fall into the trap of weighing yourself every single day....once a week, every two weeks, or like me every month and a half or longer....So frustrating to be glued to the scale..It does not tell the entire story....Michiganchick is right...good advice from her!! :)

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If only this were an exact science...so frustrating when we're doing all the things we need to but we don't see movement where we'd like to see it. You are on the right track and if you give your body some time to heal and right itself, you'll start seeing things move in the right direction. Also, I agree with RJ...I only weigh once a week...I find it too emotionally wracking to do it any more often than that, and I find my biggest losses are the week after I've had a weigh-in where I've maintained or only lost a little (I think it makes me work harder lol).

Hang in there and remember that you have all of us here to support you!! :)

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I just don't know what I would do without this forum. I know you are all right. Thank you for the encouragement. Patients has never been one of my virtues!

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I just don't know what I would do without this forum. I know you are all right. Thank you for the encouragement. Patients has never been one of my virtues!
seela. You can do this. Focus on the healing and get your liquids on :)

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      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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      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.

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

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