Question:
im 9 days post op and gained weight

im 9 days post op and gained 11 puonds is this normal im only taking in liquids im scared to death....    — e H. (posted on September 23, 2002)

September 23, 2002
I wouldn't worry about the weight gain. My surgeon did not let us weigh in the hospital and the last thing he said before I was discharged was not to weigh til my post-op visit to his office. I didn't have scales available and so was able to resist the temptation. I weighed in at 12 days post-op and had lost 30 pounds. I was floored - but I know a lot of it was from fluid retention. I didn't weigh again for 2 months when I went for my next post-op check-up. He requests that his patients only weigh at the office or at support group meetings. That way, we don't weigh more than once a month at the most. And it works because you don't know when you hit a plateau and you don't obsess over the numbers. I am almost 10 months post-op and have lost 150 pounds. I lost the first 100 in 5 months and 1 week and it has taken almost that long to lose the next 50. But, I did go two months where I lost only 5 pounds. Talk about a plateau. My advice to you is to try to follow your post-op eating and drinking plan and stay away from scales. If you eat, drink and exercise right, the weight will take care of itself.
   — Patty_Butler

September 24, 2002
5 days after I got home from the hospital, I weighed in and was shocked to see I had gained 12 pounds! Thank god it was just fluids from the IVs. 2 weeks later, I had lost all that and another 15 or so...
   — Cindy R.