How are your energy levels when you first adjust to the limited caloric intake? Do you feel woozy? Dizzy?

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Strangely no real change. Biggest problem was weaning off caffeine and soft drinks.

You'll be weak and tired from the surgery itself, but your body will draw all the energy it needs from your fat stores. You shouldn't feel weak or woozy due to limited calories. Your body gets the calories to burn for energy, it's just getting them from your fat cells instead of your mouth

I just know that sometimes on a regular day if I don't eat as much, I feel weak and woozy or shakey. It hasn't been as bad since I've been trying to eat more low carb foods, etc

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Your blood sugar may be low.

The biggest issue is not getting enough fluids in you. You can live and be comfortable longer than you think on water alone but if you don't get enough water and keep yourself hydrated that is when you start feeling like absolute hell. Dizzy, weak and exhausted.

No real difference right after. I mean, I had a baby six weeks before I had surgery. I am now 15 months out. At my 12 month check up my Iron was still really low. I've always had low iron, but supplements weren't helping. I went to a hematologist and ended up having an infusion. At the infusion they asked me, well, don't you feel tired with iron this low. I said, "ma'am, I work full time, have a one year old, am in graduate school, and training for a half-marathon. Who knows if it is life or low iron?" 3 months after the infusion, I am not nearly as tired. I feel great. I have even upped my running. I do have to eat enough though.

The biggest issue is not getting enough fluids in you. You can live and be comfortable longer than you think on water alone but if you don't get enough water and keep yourself hydrated that is when you start feeling like absolute hell. Dizzy, weak and exhausted.

I think this is my problem.

No real difference right after. I mean, I had a baby six weeks before I had surgery. I am now 15 months out. At my 12 month check up my Iron was still really low. I've always had low iron, but supplements weren't helping. I went to a hematologist and ended up having an infusion. At the infusion they asked me, well, don't you feel tired with iron this low. I said, "ma'am, I work full time, have a one year old, am in graduate school, and training for a half-marathon. Who knows if it is life or low iron?" 3 months after the infusion, I am not nearly as tired. I feel great. I have even upped my running. I do have to eat enough though.

Just out of curiously what was your HGB level prior to the infusion?

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