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I have gained weight 3 days in a row. I am up 1.6 pounds without changing anything diet wise. My body is a jerk. I know it is just normal fluctuations and I shouldn't be on the scale everyday but DAMN, WTF?!?! Just when I learn to breathe through my stalls and be all zen with the process, BAM! I told my husband to hide the scale because I am about to murder someone.

That is all. Stupid, jerk body.

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Gee, tell us how you really feel!

Sorry, I understand how frustrating and infuriating this must be. I can't weigh every day, I'd go nuts and it's not a particularly long leap to get there. Hope the scale smiles on you soon (hugs)

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47 minutes ago, YeahOkay31 said:

I have gained weight 3 days in a row. I am up 1.6 pounds without changing anything diet wise. My body is a jerk. I know it is just normal fluctuations and I shouldn't be on the scale everyday but DAMN, WTF?!?! Just when I learn to breathe through my stalls and be all zen with the process, BAM! I told my husband to hide the scale because I am about to murder someone.

That is all. Stupid, jerk body.

Ok ok, calm down.. deep breaths. You know that you didn't actually "gain" weight. It takes 3,500 calories to gain a single pound. I know you aren't over there eating Big Macs....

It's probably a combination of hormones, Water retention, time of day, pooping schedule/constipation, ect.

If you had said, 5-7 lbs... I'd be more curious... 1.6 lbs could mean you need a healthy poop.

But girl, I'm always down for a vent session! It is frustrating to say the least. Try not weighing yourself daily. It really doesn't help to feel this way, when tomorrow you could be down 3+lbs.

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This happens! It's happened to me but it isn't true weight gain. Do you know the gargantuan amount of calories that you'd have to eat in order to truly gain that? It's probably just Water or whatever. I remember when I had my last check in appointment and discovered I had lost a whopping 6 inches off of my waist and I was down in the dumps because I felt I wasn't making progress. Hang in there! ;-)

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1 hour ago, YeahOkay31 said:

I have gained weight 3 days in a row. I am up 1.6 pounds without changing anything diet wise. My body is a jerk. I know it is just normal fluctuations and I shouldn't be on the scale everyday but DAMN, WTF?!?! Just when I learn to breathe through my stalls and be all zen with the process, BAM! I told my husband to hide the scale because I am about to murder someone.

That is all. Stupid, jerk body.

I'm right there with you on this one. In the past 4 days I've gained over 3 lbs. Lost almost 2 of that today with some "Selective, controlled dumping" (I had a cup of coffee).
Weight went up, body fat % kept going down. Crazy, infuriating, stuff right.

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Can my body go to reform school with call of yours. I enrolled in my new program March 9th, saw the staff psychologist April 25th, he handed me a prediet plan that I start on 3 meals 3 Snacks daily along with upping Fluid consumption to 64 oz and start small-sipping, yes, rather like going into training, when I met dietician, exercise person, nurse practioner on May 24th my rotten body had rewarded me with a 1.5 pound loss. Okay I have really tried to "rock the plan", upped my walking and other mild exercises, I'm 72, my days of hanging from trapezes or swinging from mo,key bars are pretty over. How has my Chunky Mama Monkey 🐵 body rewarded me? 4.5 pounds in almost 2 months, should it have been better? I gave up spaghetti and Garlic bread for this? Sat in eating places and around watching Tomkitten chow down pizza, hamburgers et all with my self-righteous salad with a lemon juice and olive oil dressing on the side. When we went to Wendy's he got a. chocolate frosty, I popped a vanilla Equate Protein Shake and pretended it was exactly my dream liquid. Oh when I got my Vitamins for,my deficiencies, my pre surgery labs showed a few. I've been very compliant. I should be in a stage of happy before surgery happiness, right? Why do I want to pick up my "Life After Bariatric Surgery" booklet and heave it against the wall? Is it my redhead temper coming out or am I really not cut out for this? Am I just having a PLOM moment, short for Poor Little Ole Me( thanks Mrs Gamgee)? Does everybody get these moments? Don't help when I read " I was down 25 pounds after my 2 week liquid diet, Doctor was so proud!" I sit here thinking Duhh, I must be totally screwing this up. Help, my veteran friends, perk me up!

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14 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

Can my body go to reform school with call of yours. I enrolled in my new program March 9th, saw the staff psychologist April 25th, he handed me a prediet plan that I start on 3 meals 3 Snacks daily along with upping Fluid consumption to 64 oz and start small-sipping, yes, rather like going into training, when I met dietician, exercise person, nurse practioner on May 24th my rotten body had rewarded me with a 1.5 pound loss. Okay I have really tried to "rock the plan", upped my walking and other mild exercises, I'm 72, my days of hanging from trapezes or swinging from mo,key bars are pretty over. How has my Chunky Mama Monkey 🐵 body rewarded me? 4.5 pounds in almost 2 months, should it have been better? I gave up spaghetti and Garlic bread for this? Sat in eating places and around watching Tomkitten chow down pizza, hamburgers et all with my self-righteous salad with a lemon juice and olive oil dressing on the side. When we went to Wendy's he got a. chocolate frosty, I popped a vanilla Equate Protein Shake and pretended it was exactly my dream liquid. Oh when I got my Vitamins for,my deficiencies, my pre surgery labs showed a few. I've been very compliant. I should be in a stage of happy before surgery happiness, right? Why do I want to pick up my "Life After Bariatric Surgery" booklet and heave it against the wall? Is it my redhead temper coming out or am I really not cut out for this? Am I just having a PLOM moment, short for Poor Little Ole Me( thanks Mrs Gamgee)? Does everybody get these moments? Don't help when I read " I was down 25 pounds after my 2 week liquid diet, Doctor was so proud!" I sit here thinking Duhh, I must be totally screwing this up. Help, my veteran friends, perk me up!

Other than the liquid phase, which sucks, a lot of this will be easier post-op. Right now, your stomach is hungry. It has room for more food, it wants more food, and you know that if you cheat, there won't be dumping involved. Afterward, especially if you're not a boundary-pusher (I'm not - the whole Catholic school thing) it's much easier, imho, to tell yourself that you can't eat something. Right now, you know that you can, but shouldn't, and that's hard. July is just NEXT MONTH, my friend! You've withstood far more difficult times than this!

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Yeah you guys both are right. Confession your youth intimidates me, I think If they can do it, why can't I? I must have the Basal Metabolism rate of a sick spastic sea slug, all I need is for someone to post "I'm in a wheelchair and lost 15 pounds in a month" that would brighten my day, not! I wanna, I needs it, why can I not do this faster and smoother? I keep forgetting weight loss is not l8ke a rocket ship as much as a old wheezy junky jalopy,that stops and starts. I don't want to ask somebody for a jump start or push me over the Finish line.

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LOL....been there! Hang in there...it all evens out. I gain a couple pounds before my period every month and it wigs me out, too. It's just Water. It comes, it goes. All is well:)

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13 hours ago, AshAsh1 said:

You know that you didn't actually "gain" weight. It takes 3,500 calories to gain a single pound. I know you aren't over there eating Big Macs....

:lol: Truer words have not been spoken...but this still cracked me up.

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