Question:
12 Days PostOp I think I broke my scale HELP!!!!
I went to the doctors last Friday and I lost 8 pounds. When I step on my scale it says the same thing. I don't get it, maybe the scale is stuck because I weighed so much. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I am head hungry. PLEASE HELP ME! — tishastrauss (posted on June 28, 2010)
June 28, 2010
Relax, it will come off. Did you do a pre-op diet as well? Also, are you
walking at all. From the second day I came home from the hospital, I
walked, starting around 20 minutes. I live in South Florida, and in August
it is hot, so I would go to my neighborhood food market and walk there.
As far as head hunger, I must tell you I never had that problem, especially
at the beginning of this weight loss odyssey. Everyone is different, but
just drink water or Crystal Light.
Plus, I wasn't allowed to eat any carbs until I lost 75% of my weight, and
then I didn't have any except very limited one, i.e., baked potato or
beans.
— FSUMom
June 28, 2010
May I please suggest that you try not to look at the scale for another week
or so? It is just going to make you crazy. I was very puffy and gassy the
first month as I recall. You will lose the weight. Be patient.
I'm serious when I say that I only weighed myself once every three months
or so for the past 15 months. As long as my clothes were getting too big, I
was satisfied that I was successful. I was recently weighed after not being
weighed for 4 months and have reached my goal of 150 pound weight loss.
Actually I think I might be too thin for my age. That's a shocker!
Good luck. Hang in there and don't fret. Listen to your doctors. Try to
move around as much as possible. I know it's hard in the beginning and I
didn't move around too much either. By the 2nd month I started walking in
the neighborhood and by 3 months I was walking miles/day.
Liz Smith
— Elizabeth Smith
June 28, 2010
Stop looking at your scale. I know that you want to lose consistantly. It
doesn't happen that way. I am about 6 months out. I havd a six week stall
at one point. It is difficult emotionally to have stalls,but you just have
to accept it. The surgery is not going to fail. You just have to keep to
the water, vitamin, protein and escercise plan. You do your part and it
will work. I stopped looking at the scale. The last time that I looked, I
had lost about 70 pounds total. It will happen for you, if you do your
part.
— MargaretHM
June 29, 2010
Make sure to drink your water, being thirsty can cause head hunger. Make
sure you're getting all your protein... you'll definitely need protein
drinks this soon after surgery, make sure you get some early in the day so
you feel more satiety. And the advice to walk is very good... same as for
the advice to be patient. We need to take the long view... and focus on
doing the right thing, because part of surgery is having the support to
learn to make changes that we'll keep up with even after the
"honeymoon" period of weight loss is over and we have to work
even harder just to maintain & not regain. It is work, it can be
frustrating when the scale is not moving (boy o boy do I know... I hit a
plateau for a whole month at three months out and it made me cry more than
once) but it will move again as your body adjusts to the new intake.
Congrats on taking this huge positive step for your health and happiness!
Make the most of your honeymoon period as a great time to get used to your
new lifestyle of planned eating and more movement!
— Greg K.
June 29, 2010
I have a beam scale and I check myself about once a week at the same time
in the morning after showering. I find that I am about two pounds lighter
in the morning than I am at night. Weigh without close as they can add
about four to five pounds. If you are using a spring loaded scale, as most
are, be careful to put your feet in the same position every time.
I had my RNY on January 13th of this year and so far have lost 104 pounds.
There will be many times you will not loose anything during a week. Just
follow the plan, do not cheat, and you will have a wonderful journey.
— Jim Christian
June 29, 2010
Tisha -- for what it's worth, I say toss the thing out. There's nothing
like a scale to make you give new meaning to the term "obsessive
compulsive". If you can't bring yourself to throw it out, ask someone
you trust (and who can't be "broken" by nagging, tears, or
anything else) to hide it for at least the next six months. You didn't
gain all your weight in 12 days, and it won't come off that fast either.
You're only 12 days out, and, as somebody else posted, still gassy and
bloaty from the surgery and all the IV fluids they give you. I'm more than
10 years out from a VBG and have learned to live without a scale, because
it makes me crazy. Leave me alone with a scale and I'll weigh myself
twenty times a day. I get weighed every three months at the doctor's when
I go for my diabetes checkup and I make him write the number down and not
tell me. He's allowed to tell me once a year whether I'm up, down or the
same, but not to give me an actual number. I go by how my clothes fit, and
I have to say it still amazes me that I can go from season to season
without having to buy an entirely new wardrobe, as the stuff from the
previous year still fits! So just relax, honey. Walk. Drink your water.
Get your protein. Your head hunger will take a while to go too -- if
you're feeling hungry drink some water; nine times out of ten you won't be
hungry any more. It will get better, and the weight will come off.
Patience (something I've heard is quite useful -- I wouldn't really know
'cause I've never had any) comes in handy too -- but give yourself time.
Cheers --
— Cheryl Denomy
June 29, 2010
Hi-most scales go up to 300 lb. After I had my surgery, I didn't see 299
for over a month. Hang in there - your scale is not broken and you will
soon see the numbers going down,
— rach53
June 30, 2010
Sweetheart when people say the first 3 months of wls is hell, it is hell!!
I know you don't want to hear this right now but it does get better. Just
do what your docotor says and it will all pass. Your head hunger is
completely natural and will not overtake you. Good luck and just count the
days not the meals and take 1 day at a time.
— ladyrdhk
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