New to the group, six days post-op

CassieBinTC

Good Morning,
I am so happy to see there are groups on MFP for bariatric patients. I had my VSG last Tuesday, February 5th at Kaiser West Los Angeles, CA. My surgery went well. I was discharged the day after surgery. Without a doubt everyday gets easier. Today is my first day back to work.

My highest weight was 394 in June 2017. My surgery weight was 307. Wednesday my weight was 313. This morning I am 301. Everything has always been a numbers thing with me as I am an accountant.

I feel I am doing well, I have not had any pain meds since I was in the hospital. My biggest issue is the chewable vitamins. They taste gross. So any pointers on that would be most helpful.

NicoleL874

Suck it up. lol, I know it's not what you hear, but take the vitamin your surgeon asked you to take. If you have to take some water after to help with the taste, do it. There's nothing that will make them taste better. Ask when you can switch to a swallow-type pill.

I'm a numbers person too. Get used to fluctuations. This one made sense, they pumped you full of fluids, you are swollen, etc. There are times it won't make sense. Or it will seem to hold for longer than you like. As women, we can fluctuate daily because of our hormones. As you burn the fat, you are releasing a ton of hormones into your system. Try not to freak out. Try being the important word, lol! If you gain more than 5lbs, talk to your nutritionist. Most likely most or all will be gone the next day.

Make sure you are measuring. Our body has a way of shifting things without releasing, that makes no sense. Your weight can stay the same, go up a pound or two, but still go down a size jeans.

A stall is when you see no movement to the scale or the measuring tape for WEEKS at a time.

Keep breathing deeply and remember that it will come off if you follow the rules. So, follow the rules.

Also, start doing some heavy work now into healing yourself. Healing yourself emotionally, mentally, all around your relationship with food. Lay the groundwork now to start bettering your choices. My program has the dumbest philosophy, "All things in moderation." Would anyone say that to an alcoholic? No. So why say that to a food addict? It's a lousy philosophy and leads to lots of slippery slopes. Start educating yourself on what your body NEEDS for fuel. There are plenty of tasty ways to fuel your body without adding all the added crap.

That's way more than you asked for, but there ya go...lol

Good luck!

KarlaYP

Exactly what Nicole said! This is the time you get, to change yourself, and how you relate to food! Weight loss will seem to be effortless over the next year (likely), and then it will stop, and if you haven’t changed the foods you eat by then, well, the surgery will likely be for nothing.

Right now these words may seem harsh, but we’ve been there and done this. I’m four years post op conversion from my sleeve to bypass. No, the conversion wasn’t done because of weight gain, but I could see it beginning to happen when I was able to stop it before the bypass. But, after the bypass I lost more weight than I’d ever lost with the sleeve. I actually got to my original goal weight of 180 (I started at 318 and the lowest I got with the sleeve was 208) and have maintained that for over three years with a low carb, high fat way of life. I don’t ever plan to eat the way I used to because that way made me very unhealthy and want the surgery to start with. I won’t be eating a low calorie, low fat diet either because that’s the diet I tried hundreds of times before surgery and was never successful at!

So, you have an opportunity to get your head right! I hope you take the time you’re given to work it out for yourself!

Don’t forget to sip the water constantly except when eating! Then it’s protein first!! Happy healing!!

lleeann2001

CassieBinTC wrote: »

Good Morning,
I am so happy to see there are groups on MFP for bariatric patients. I had my VSG last Tuesday, February 5th at Kaiser West Los Angeles, CA. My surgery went well. I was discharged the day after surgery. Without a doubt everyday gets easier. Today is my first day back to work.

My highest weight was 394 in June 2017. My surgery weight was 307. Wednesday my weight was 313. This morning I am 301. Everything has always been a numbers thing with me as I am an accountant.

I feel I am doing well, I have not had any pain meds since I was in the hospital. My biggest issue is the chewable vitamins. They taste gross. So any pointers on that would be most helpful.

Sometimes you can get the chewables from different companies where the vitamins taste like starburst. I forget the name...Oh wait...There s barimelts melts and then bariatric choice. I've ordered some from bariatric choice. Also see if you can get your calcium in liquids. I used to take Wellesse liquid calcium. It was orange in color and didn't taste bad. But under no circumstances do you stop taking those vitamins....chalky and gross they may be but they are VITAL to your success. You just have to force yourself thru it. Kind of like how we women suffer through wearing those hi heels all the time. Right? Also try to drink lots of water being the chalkiness...😁

Beastette

Hi, I was sleeved on 3/12 and new to the group as well, but not to MFP.

lleeann2001

@Beastette2welcome welcome to the group. I hope we can be a little more active in here. We all could use the support. We are glad you are here. . I had GB on 12/20/2017. Stalled for 6 mos by not doing what the doctor said. But now I am back on track and have lost 14 pounds since I last saw Dr. Hess my surgeon....YaY!!