Patience, Grasshopper

Jun 20, 2013

Relief today.  The scale is moving again.  I had some anxious moments wondering when I'd see progress again.  I realize it was a short time but after seeing the scale move downwards so fast on Optifast and reading the amount of weight loss people experience the first 8 months your expectations can be affected by the '3 week stall'. 

I weighed 266 on my surgery date on June 7 and the following week I weighed 263.  I thought I might have lost more since I hadn't started full fluids until June 10.  Previous hospital visits would give me the same amount of weight loss with hospital food.  So when I went to my follow up visit at the clinic on June 17 I weighed 264!  What gives?  The nurse told me that I probably still had gas and fluid build up from the surgery.  (I did have a pretty dramatic drainage episode the previous week.)  So my vigil of the scale began.  Am I gaining?  Am I going to be a success or...the questions that go through your head.  Visits to the Ontario forum brought some relief as other people that had surgery dates around the same time were experiencing the same thing.

The answer from the vets...patience, Grasshopper.

Well, they were right.  June 20...two weeks post-op and I had a nice weight loss on the scale this morning.  4 lbs!  That's a total of 7 lbs in two weeks.  I'm happy with that.

Here's hoping I stay on the losing trend.  It'll be interesting to see when my next 'stall' will be.  The vets say there will be many in this journey.  I hope documenting this will prove helpful to someone down the road and encourage me when those times hit and I can look back and say too...patience, Grasshopper.

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