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cliftondanna
cliftondanna Posts: 1 Member
edited November 17 in Introduce Yourself
I had hand surgery last week. I'm typically pretty active. My weight was 165 Thur before last. I weighed today and I was 179. I immediately wanted to just burst into tears. I have not been that high in years. I knew I had gained but that's unheard of. I know I had atleast one bag of fluids in hospital, and yes I've been lazy this week and definitely eating more...but 14 pounds..REALLY..please tell me this isn't so!!!

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  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    You'd have to eat tens of thousands of extra calories to gain 14 actual fat pounds in that period of time. You could have gained a few, but most of it is probably just a lot of fluid retention. :)
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    edited April 2017
    Unless you ate 49,000 calories over your maintenance it's just water weight. I've had several surgeries both during weight loss and now while maintaining and I always gain a huge amount for a bit afterwards. Give it some time and drink lots of water, it will go away (might take a week or two).

    Your body will retain fluid while you are healing, that's the way it works. If it bothers you, stay off the scale for a bit until it goes back down.

    My doctors have always told me to eat at maintenance and make sure I'm hitting my protein goal while recovering to give my body something to work with during recovery.

    Don't stress about it, concentrate on healing.

    Edited because English is hard before coffee.
  • OkChargerFan
    OkChargerFan Posts: 371 Member
    Just had my knee scoped last Friday, it went better than I expected. You can do this!
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Drink water, exercise. Kidneys to the rescue!
  • skinnyb1979
    skinnyb1979 Posts: 8 Member
    Concentrate on getting healthy, surgery is a big deal. Probably it is water weight especially is you have been taking anti inflammatory or pain killers. Medication can mess your body chemistry.
  • Ridelikethewind1
    Ridelikethewind1 Posts: 46 Member
    I've no real words of wisdom, but we are all here for you and wish a speedy recovery.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,984 Member
    Alot of it is water weight. Inflammation from the surgery will cause fluid retention. That's why there's swelling and it not only affects the area, but the whole body. As mentioned above, it would take an INSANE amount of calorie surplus to gain that much in a couple of weeks.

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  • silvervega
    silvervega Posts: 11 Member
    cliftondanna wrote: »
    I had hand surgery last week. I'm typically pretty active. My weight was 165 Thur before last. I weighed today and I was 179. I immediately wanted to just burst into tears. I have not been that high in years. I knew I had gained but that's unheard of. I know I had atleast one bag of fluids in hospital, and yes I've been lazy this week and definitely eating more...but 14 pounds..REALLY..please tell me this isn't so!!!

    I'm guessing that bag of fluids you had at the hospital contained a lot of sodium which is making you retain all that water weight.

    Saline 0.9% Solution for Iv Sodium 3,542 mg per litter
    Just drink a lot of water to flush that extra sodium
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