Hi, this might be a strange question. I am 5 weeks post-op with RNY, down 27 pounds. I know I am wearing smaller clothes but how come I am still feeling as big as ever?

Also since surgery I have no desire to be intimate anymore, is that a hormone thing?

Feeling bad for my husband....

Hi, this might be a strange question. I am 5 weeks post-op with RNY, down 27 pounds. I know I am wearing smaller clothes but how come I am still feeling as big as ever?

Also since surgery I have no desire to be intimate anymore, is that a hormone thing?

Feeling bad for my husband....

Takes your mind a LONG time to catch up!!!! I'm over two years out, at goal for over a year and eight months post plastics and I still feel "big" sometimes at 5'7" 135lbs and a size 4. Keep taking pictures and comparing!

I can't speak to the intimacy part hopefully someone can... Hormones are def messed up for a while but I was post menopause ask didn't experience it the same way

"How come I am still feeling as big as ever?"

This is common. Generally I never knew I was obese because I never really looked at myself in the mirror before surgery and because I was alway the one taking photographs so therefore I was never in them. The best thing to do before surgery is to take a photograph of yourself and then later after surgery take another one as a comparison shot. It was a real eye opener. Here is mine at the 6 month mark. http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Operation.jpg

I thought I was the only one! I've had no desire for intimacy. Is this common?