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TxChelsey    1

TxChelsey
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I had a meeting with my surgeon late Thurs afternoon and weighed in at 329.5 :regular_smile: He put me on liquids for three days prior to Monday's surgery and today is Day 3. I weighed myself when I got up this morning and I am down over 8 pounds. That is a crazy amount of weight to lose in 2 days! I will be on liquids for 5 weeks post op and I can't even imagine how much I will have lost by the end of that. Should I be excited or alarmed?

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mstrina27    0

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I had a meeting with my surgeon late Thurs afternoon and weighed in at 329.5 :biggrin: He put me on liquids for three days prior to Monday's surgery and today is Day 3. I weighed myself when I got up this morning and I am down over 8 pounds. That is a crazy amount of weight to lose in 2 days! I will be on liquids for 5 weeks post op and I can't even imagine how much I will have lost by the end of that. Should I be excited or alarmed?

Oh my goodness you should be excited... The thing is, is that when u stop the liquid diet you many not loose anything because your body has to get use to having solids inside again but it will definately be a process... I have been there before.. congrats on your 8lb weight loss...:regular_smile:

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Sue Magoo    71

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TxChelsea:

Are you comparing what you weighed on your surgeon's scale a couple of days ago to what you weigh on your home scale? You cannot compare the two because there will almost always be differences between two scales. There can also be large variances between weighing yourself at different times of day. I am always lightest in the morning. Another variable is clothes, or naked.

I would be so fricken happy if I lost what you lost. I wouldn't be concerned at all. The loss will slow down soon.

Good luck with your surgery.

Sue

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hopefulmom25    0

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I think I'd be excited! :regular_smile: Your doc probably wouldn't put you on the liquid diet if he didn't think it was in your best interest for the surgery. So just relax and enjoy the loss. Congrats! :biggrin:

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TxChelsey    1

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I actually bought a really good scale and I weighed myself when I got home. It was within .2 lbs of the doctor's scale. I love that I can get on this scale 3 or 4 times in a row and get the same weight everytime. That so rarely happens with the electronic scales and I find myself computing averages for accuracy. No more!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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