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?

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:

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

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:

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!!