Where did these 6 pounds come from?
Rodneymc4
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Strange – Can’t understand what happened.
On Thursday morning I weighed 186 lbs. I was scheduled for surgery Friday morning so I couldn’t eat much solid food the day before.
I had ½ cup oatmeal and 3 cups of cooked spinach for breakfast, 2 cups chicken noodle soup for lunch, protein shake for a snack, bean soup broth / stock for dinner, 7 or 8 cups of hot green tea and plenty of water.
I drank three 10 oz. bottles of magnesium citrate oral solution.
I weighed 192 lbs. on Friday morning and I weighed 192 lbs Sunday morning after eating hardly anything on Friday and a hospital menu on Saturday.
Where did these 6 lbs come from?
On Thursday morning I weighed 186 lbs. I was scheduled for surgery Friday morning so I couldn’t eat much solid food the day before.
I had ½ cup oatmeal and 3 cups of cooked spinach for breakfast, 2 cups chicken noodle soup for lunch, protein shake for a snack, bean soup broth / stock for dinner, 7 or 8 cups of hot green tea and plenty of water.
I drank three 10 oz. bottles of magnesium citrate oral solution.
I weighed 192 lbs. on Friday morning and I weighed 192 lbs Sunday morning after eating hardly anything on Friday and a hospital menu on Saturday.
Where did these 6 lbs come from?
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Hmmmm, could be water retention. Sounds like you had a several portions of stock (tons of salt!) and soup (even the low sodium kind has a high salt ratio). Try drinking more than the usual water requirement to get the salt out of your system. Don't worry, you will be back to normal in a day or two. Hope this helps!0
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Did you have an IV? When I go to the hospital for my migraines I get an IV and ALWAYS gain 5 - 9 lbs from it. Takes three days to a week for the fluids to drain out.0
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Anything they pumped into you during the surgery could have caused retention. Also your body retains water in order to help you heal from injuries (surgery would be a BIG injury). Give it a week or 2, then re-weigh. Let yourself heal before getting back into it.0
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That's probably water retention do to surgery. May i ask what kind of surgery did you got?0
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Hmmmm, could be water retention. Sounds like you had a several portions of stock (tons of salt!) and soup (even the low sodium kind has a high salt ratio). Try drinking more than the usual water requirement to get the salt out of your system. Don't worry, you will be back to normal in a day or two. Hope this helps!
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Maybe sodium from the soup?0
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A nurse or doc could probably answer the best. But a couple of guesses I have.... It depends on what kind of surgery you had. When I had major surgery they pumped gas into my abodomen so they could 'see' better. It caused me to swell up like the pillsbury dough boy. Also they put a lot of fluids into me via IV that contained sugars. The 3rd thing I've noticed is when I'm in pain, I swell up and become tense and have trouble sleeping -- all things that don't help with weight loss.
I thnk you'll find the 6 pounds are temporary and will come off easily once your body heals.
Hope that helps! Best of success to you! Yvonne0 -
Thanks for the input!
I had a hemorrhoidectomy and a prerequisite for me going home was I had to pee. After I was unable to pee for more than eight hours and bags of IV's I was given a catheter and forced to stay until I could go on my own. Hopefully it's just water retention cuz I was trying everything I could to go on my own.
Thanks again, this helped..they gave me bags and bags of saline solution plus all the magnesium citrate I drank before the procedure. I've been working too hard to gain 6 pounds from nowhere.0
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