Surgery and CICO

auranya
auranya Posts: 56 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm having laparoscopic surgery in June and am expecting not to be able to move about much for 3 weeks after. Can I continue to reduce calories to lose weight after surgery or should I just set myself to maintain?

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  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    edited April 2017
    It is often best to eat at maintenance while recovering, however this would be a better topic to discuss with your medical team.

    Cheers, h.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    You need calories for healing. Eat at maintenance or above. Good luck.
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    agree with above, but also discuss this with your doctor since they know alot more about you than we do...hopefully....
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    From experience you wouldn't want to, I've had laparoscopic surgery and the air they pump in can create quite a bit of discomfort for the first 2 weeks. I suggest you set for maintenance at sedentary and focus on healing whilst recovering.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    My laparoscopic surgery certainly made me uncomfortable for a few days (ditto on the gas pain, owww!) But I was back to relatively normal activity (for me - moving about, walking, etc. Not lifting or HIIT or anything) within a week.

    I agree that you need to fuel your recovery by eating at maintenance for a couple of weeks *at least*. Expect to see the scale go up simply due to fluids and water retained for healing. Your soreness will depend on what they are doing. Mine was an emergency appendectomy that also turned into a partial bowel resection.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    I had laparscopic and an ablation on March 23rd...I tried to eat at maintenance and continued to walk (after a couple of days) to aid in healing.

    my suggestion is eat as close to maintenance as you can (I couldn't as I had no appetite but I tried) stay off the scale for a while and heal.

    you will be glad you did.

    I didn't start lifting for 3 weeks and then I started slow...2nd week of lifting behind me now an I am feeling great.
  • ruqayyahsmum
    ruqayyahsmum Posts: 1,513 Member
    Oh the gas pain :(

    Just focus on healing and be prepared for that to take longer than you think
    I had laproscopic surgery and was told it would be a one night stay....... yeah that ended up being 6 days and the 4 week recovery took 8

    I dont cope well with surgery thou. A quick day procedure at 5 weeks postpartum left me oxygen dependant for 5 days
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    Ask your medical professional what they recommend. Generally maintenance is advised when recovering from an injury/illness.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    Ask your medical professional what they recommend. Generally maintenance is advised when recovering from an injury/illness.

    sometimes they aren't too forth coming with information.

    I just had surgery and mentioned to my doctor that I would be lifting the within a week...it was my deload week so I thought oh yah I can do that...

    She didn't say no don't do that...she shrugged and smiled.

    I now know why because there was no way I felt like doing that at all but I might have....she really should have said...no just rest relax eat etc.
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    I am not a dr, but I would expect this to be related to where you are at the moment of surgery. I would expect for someone trying to lose 10 vanity pounds to not have to worry about diet restrictions post surgery, but I doubt that a dr would advise a morbidly obese patient to eat at maintenance.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,176 Member
    I kept losing after laparoscopic gallbladder surgery, and that turned out to be a Bad Plan - result was an unnecessary level of weakness/fatigue. Based on that experience, I'd recommend going to or near maintenance.

    +1 to the advice that you should expect to see a scale gain of several pounds after surgery, in the form of water weight from the healing process, and that it'll stick around for a while, maybe 2-3+ weeks. Don't let it worry you, it'll drop off with time.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    I kept losing after laparoscopic gallbladder surgery, and that turned out to be a Bad Plan - result was an unnecessary level of weakness/fatigue. Based on that experience, I'd recommend going to or near maintenance.

    +1 to the advice that you should expect to see a scale gain of several pounds after surgery, in the form of water weight from the healing process, and that it'll stick around for a while, maybe 2-3+ weeks. Don't let it worry you, it'll drop off with time.

    Agreed..that's why I said stay off scale for a while...

    however day of surgery I was 151 per scale at hospital...last week (3-4 weeks post op) I had lost 3lbs...can't complain...and I was not trying to lose.
  • rightoncommander
    rightoncommander Posts: 114 Member
    aggelikik wrote: »
    I am not a dr, but I would expect this to be related to where you are at the moment of surgery. I would expect for someone trying to lose 10 vanity pounds to not have to worry about diet restrictions post surgery, but I doubt that a dr would advise a morbidly obese patient to eat at maintenance.

    I'm pretty sure a doctor couldn't care less about a 3-week gap in a slow, steady reduction in weight for a morbidly obese patient. The important thing is what that patient will weigh in 5 years' time, not in 5 weeks' time.
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