Please help! I am 5 days post op and have GAINED weight! I am only eating the minimum (ex. 10oz bone broth, 36oz water, 1 sugar free popsicle 1 sugar free jello and 10oz apple juice) I feel like I’m hungry and I feel like I’ve already failed! How can you possibly GAIN? Total regret has set in ?

There are many similar posts to yours on here but it's only a temporary fluid gain from the iv fluids and inflammation in your body. Over the next week or so the fluid will leave your body. Keep on following your guidelines and you will get through this.

If it helps, I weighed myself four days after my surgery and had gained three pounds, yet at my one week check-up I was down 10 pounds since my surgery, which means in just a few days 13 pounds seemingly disappeared. Don't stress too much about it and ignore your scale for the first few weeks, it's likely just fluid gain from the IV's

I gained 5 kg immediately post-op. I was like wow... that's a lot of fluid.

@Jeep-girl im day 8 post-op. I gained my first few days home. I didn’t lose my first couple of pounds until Day 6. You’re on track. I was freaking out too. I was googling sleeve failed? Or Pouch too big? If you search weight gain after surgery in the forums you will see many of us gained initially after surgery. I focused on other things—walking, measuring inches, journaling and coming out of the fog of the pain meds. And a good friend gave me this advice: remain calm and be confident that it worked. Put that positive energy out there, honey. You got this and it worked and you are fabulous and becoming more fabulous every day. ?

I gain 10lbs of water weight after every surgery, It will go away.

Very typical, give it a few more days. You’re full of fluids right now

Here I go again!

STOP weighing yourself every day or you are going to end up in a rubber room with a jacket that buckles in the back!

You will be fine body is retaining fluids and healing

42 minutes ago, AJ Tylo said:

STOP weighing yourself every day or you are going to end up in a rubber room with a jacket that buckles in the back!

So true.

Thanks! I only weighed myself yesterday and I don’t plan on weighing anymore for 2 weeks! I agree that this a tough time and staying away from the scale is probably 75% of it! I was just shocked to see the amount of weight I gained when I stepped on! Thanks for your input!