How much weight everyone lost after a surgery ?

Orient_Charm
Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
edited January 18 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi,
If anyone have any type of Surgery, please let me know how much weight you lost ( If you really did ).

Thank you.

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  • _Lori_Lynn_
    _Lori_Lynn_ Posts: 460 Member
    Hi,
    If anyone have any type of Surgery, please let me know how much weight you lost ( If you really did ).

    Thank you.

    I didn't lose a lb. Actually gained a few, bc I laid on the couch while my boyfriend hand fed me pizza.
  • daphne_m
    daphne_m Posts: 84 Member
    I gain weight after surgery because I spend my time horizontal and screaming "I'm dying, I'm dying" until someone brings me tasty food. Good times.
  • fresh_start59
    fresh_start59 Posts: 590 Member
    I didn't lose any weight with any of my major surgeries. I gained after having part of my thyroid removed. I think I also gained a bit after my hysterectomy. After the last one surgery, a gallbladder removal gone haywire, I didn't gain or lose. I didn't move much and I didn't eat much. But I did exchange some of my lean body mass for fat mass. :-(
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    Hi,
    If anyone have any type of Surgery, please let me know how much weight you lost ( If you really did ).

    Thank you.

    I didn't lose a lb. Actually gained a few, bc I laid on the couch while my boyfriend hand fed me pizza.

    lol. OMG, I was expecting to lose some lbs.......
    Thank you....
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    I gain weight after surgery because I spend my time horizontal and screaming "I'm dying, I'm dying" until someone brings me tasty food. Good times.

    Thanks.....have a great day
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    I didn't lose any weight with any of my major surgeries. I gained after having part of my thyroid removed. I think I also gained a bit after my hysterectomy. After the last one surgery, a gallbladder removal gone haywire, I didn't gain or lose. I didn't move much and I didn't eat much. But I did exchange some of my lean body mass for fat mass. :-(

    I lost my hopefulness to ( Free ) lose of some lbs after surgery.

    Thank you
  • EngineerPrincess
    EngineerPrincess Posts: 306 Member
    I lost a lot of weight after surgery once. I was four and I was so sick I couldn't eat for a while.
    Sorry, that's not very applicable is it.

    I guess it depends on the surgery type.
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    I lost a lot of weight after surgery once. I was four and I was so sick I couldn't eat for a while.
    Sorry, that's not very applicable is it.

    I guess it depends on the surgery type.

    Thank you for sharing ..
  • Teliooo
    Teliooo Posts: 725 Member
    About half a stone but I was in deep stress and depression after, so I think that was more of the reason.
  • Lobster1987
    Lobster1987 Posts: 492 Member
    I had actually weight loss surgery and lost like 145...does that count? :P
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    I gained weight because the person taking care of me only ate fast food and had no clue what a vegetable was. I was never so happy to see a veggie a week later...
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I lost a couple of lbs while I was not allowed to do any lifting, which would have all been muscle glycogen. I may have put on a little fat too, didn't notice specifically. Then, after I started lifting again, I put the muscle glycogen lbs on again.

    What affected me more was that the amount I could lift went down due to taking a whole month off. Thankfully, I managed to catch up again in about 2-3 weeks and now I'm lifting heavier than I was pre-surgery.

    I've also had 2 c-sections, lost weight after those prior to resuming any kind of exercise or following any diet apart from the "make enough milk for the baby" diet - but that would be due to not being pregnant and breastfeeding instead. Also, it's kind of not really relevant to any other kind of surgery....
  • Xianpu27
    Xianpu27 Posts: 70 Member
    I'm not sure my surgery counts as it was a tonsillectomy and losing weight in the recovery from that procedure is pretty normal as swallowing food HURTS like mad. But yeah, I lost 15lbs in the two to three weeks it took for me to get back onto solid foods. I lived on noodles in chicken broth, gatorade and pudding...

    ETA: If anyone's thinking of a tonsillectomy for weight loss (lol) keep in mind I gained the majority of that 15lbs back pretty quickly!!
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    I had brain surgery just over 4 weeks ago. I lost some weight in the hospital when I was in there not eating much the first few days. However, now I am up because I am still taking narcotics which aren't allowing me to poop enough! Working on weaning myself so I can be regular again. I am sure I will be back down pretty quickly once I poop more. Sorry for being gross.
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    Thanks everyone for sharing, appropriated.
  • JessicaRobin67
    JessicaRobin67 Posts: 275 Member
    I had surgery on feb 20th and I lost alittle over a pound a week during recovery...sitting in the recliner. I was amazed.... I made sure I logged everything and kept my intake around 1700 and drink your water. From day before surgery and until now... lost 7 pounds(been 4 weeks as of today).
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    I had both knees replaced last winter, one in Jan and one in Feb of 2012, so I was out of work and not doing much exercise for about 4 months and I lost 45 pounds. I wasn't counting calories, but I did try to make sure that I was eating fairly healthy meals and not just junk.
  • Orient_Charm
    Orient_Charm Posts: 385 Member
    Thank you both, I feel better now about losing weight after surgery..........I am not sure if I am going to count, but for sure I will eat good food
  • CristinaL1983
    CristinaL1983 Posts: 1,119 Member
    I've had 3 surgeries. One was a c-section (I lost about 30 pounds including an almost 8 pound baby :laugh:).

    Two ankle surgeries. With the first ankle surgery (total ankle reconstruction) I lost a good bit of weight in the 6 months following the surgery just from using crutches all the time and going to physical therapy. Then when I was able to get back to my previous activity level, I lost most of the rest of the weight I had gained because of injury. Immediately after surgery I was on delauded and have no clue about weight loss or gain though I suspect I lost some weight because I was pretty out of my mind on the drugs and only drank apple juice and didn't really eat for a couple weeks).

    My second ankle surgery, I was ambulatory immediately and careful with my diet because I was trying to lose weight. I continued losing weight.

    I think it depends on the surgery and what you do after it.
  • doc800
    doc800 Posts: 148 Member
    First surgery I lost about 15 pounds
    the second surgery was about 20 pounds
    Hmmmmm....maybe I am on to something lol
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