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So yesterday wasn’t a great for me as far as following my diet. I weighed myself yesterday morning at 309.2 and this morning, the same scale, is reading 315-317!!!!!!!! I am not proud but yesterday I did eat more often than I should have. I had egg salad(without bread))for a snack and I usually do not snack. I also had part of a sno cone which did have sugar. I’m just unsure how there was such a dramatic increase in weight.

TMI, But I will also add I have used the bathroom.

I know you shouldn’t weigh everyday but I have never “gained” so much in one day even before surgery. I could go to a buffet and still not gain so much!

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Sw- 363 (2/27/18)

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A pound is 3500 calories, so i think your scale is off. You would have to chow down alot to gain that much over night...dont drive ur self crazy, weigh again on another day, or another scale

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55 minutes ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

Maybe you're just retaining fluids.

My MD put me on diuretics a couple of months after surgery, and I lost 18lbs in two weeks (& it hasn't come back). He told me to expect to lose 5lbs.

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17 minutes ago, shelly420 said:

My MD put me on diuretics a couple of months after surgery, and I lost 18lbs in two weeks (& it hasn't come back). He told me to expect to lose 5lbs.

We must be kindred spirits. I'm on lasix now. They're hoping I'll go down around 30 pounds, total. Glad it worked for you!

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8 hours ago, Orchids&Dragons said:

We must be kindred spirits. I'm on lasix now. They're hoping I'll go down around 30 pounds, total. Glad it worked for you!

That stuff is fantastic. They seem to hit about 45 minutes after I take them. I must make 4-5 trips to the bathroom, but then I'm back to normal for the rest of the day. Are you' taking potassium tabs too? The two two should be taken together, or so I'm told.

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So question on the diuretics...I thought those were a no no bc of possible dehydration...thus the reason Water has been etched in our brains...


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8 hours ago, PCOSSUCKS said:

So question on the diuretics...I thought those were a no no bc of possible dehydration...thus the reason Water has been etched in our brains...

It becomes a "lesser of 2 evils" thing. In my case, the cardiologist thinks there is Fluid around my lungs and it needs to be reduced. The surgeon said the diuretics are fine so long as I continue to drink plenty of liquid, which has never been an issue for me.

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9 hours ago, shelly420 said:

That stuff is fantastic. They seem to hit about 45 minutes after I take them. I must make 4-5 trips to the bathroom, but then I'm back to normal for the rest of the day. Are you' taking potassium tabs too? The two two should be taken together, or so I'm told.

The other diuretic I'm on has potassium in it. So, I'm good.

Speaking of the 45 minute thing - The doctor injected the lasix directly into my vein because the oral meds weren't having enough of an effect. Then I drove to work. About 20 minutes after the injection, I ended up in the mother of all traffic jams. I was praying "Please, God, just let me make it to the next exit. Don't make me pee in the middle lane of the interstate!" God was kind and I made it to the next exit and there was even a gas station there! I could hardly walk in, in needed to pee so bad!

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19 hours ago, sarhgrif said:

So yesterday wasn’t a great for me as far as following my diet. I weighed myself yesterday morning at 309.2 and this morning, the same scale, is reading 315-317!!!!!!!! I am not proud but yesterday I did eat more often than I should have. I had egg salad(without bread))for a snack and I usually do not snack. I also had part of a sno cone which did have sugar. I’m just unsure how there was such a dramatic increase in weight.

TMI, But I will also add I have used the bathroom.

I know you shouldn’t weigh everyday but I have never “gained” so much in one day even before surgery. I could go to a buffet and still not gain so much!

So, has it gone back down?

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So I weighed in this morning at 311, still up but not as high.
I understand it wouldn’t stay I just didn’t realize such an insignificant change in diet for one day would cause a change like that on the scale


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Just now, sarhgrif said:

So I weighed in this morning at 311, still up but not as high.
I understand it wouldn’t stay I just didn’t realize such an insignificant change in diet for one day would cause a change like that on the scale


Hw-378
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Yeah, that such a little thing can totally slap you down - crazy!

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Yeah! Head my warning! Generally I have been following my diet really well and intend to. Maybe I’m having hormonal fluctuations or something as well, who knows! 🤷‍♀️


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Also I weighed my daughter to check the scale and it was registering for her as normal so I don’t think the scale was the problem.


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20 hours ago, sarhgrif said:

So yesterday wasn’t a great for me as far as following my diet. I weighed myself yesterday morning at 309.2 and this morning, the same scale, is reading 315-317!!!!!!!! I am not proud but yesterday I did eat more often than I should have. I had egg salad(without bread))for a snack and I usually do not snack. I also had part of a sno cone which did have sugar. I’m just unsure how there was such a dramatic increase in weight.

TMI, But I will also add I have used the bathroom.

I know you shouldn’t weigh everyday but I have never “gained” so much in one day even before surgery. I could go to a buffet and still not gain so much!

Hw-378

Sw- 363 (2/27/18)

CW-310.6

Are you moving your scale by chance? Newer scales can become un-calibrated if they are moved/lifted. And it can take around 5 consecutive weigh-ins for it to re-calibrate itself. Does your scale also do body fat? I've been weighing myself daily, and some days I gain weight, but body fat either doesn't change or lowers. So (for me) as long as one of the 2 numbers is decreasing, I don't stress about it. This was 20 hours ago now, how are you doing today?

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