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, don't get discouraged! You are doing fine and should be

proud of yourself for taking care of your future this way. Your

experience is almost exactly what happened to me and I am not a

revision, so don't sweat it!

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, doc does not want you to lose fast anyway. Besides 16.5 pounds

may not sound like much, but think back and ask your yourself when was the last

time you lost that much in a month? You are doing just fine. Be happy with

any loss. You will get there, just relax, do what you are supposed to and it

will happen. As long as you do what you are supposed to do, mainly sip and

walk, it will happen. Trust the doc. He has done to a lot of us. We have all

had

our moments of wanting to be Twiggy overnight, but we didn't get to be Beulah

the whale overnight either, so just smile honey. You are going to be so

beautiful.

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-- the scale is your worst enemy. It was my worst enemy as those old

timers on this list will tell you. I weighed myself sometimes 20 times a day,

and my day reflected the numbers -- depressed or elated.

You may have lost only .5 pounds during that period, but other, more important

things happened in your body. Always ask for a copy of the scale print out. Look

at the numbers that changed. you'll find those numbers change more than the

poundage, most times.

Sixteen pounds in two weeks is nothing to sneeze at! you're right on target. I

believe we were told to expect to lose 10-pounds per MONTH. Don't worry about

the pounds, they will take care of themselves and you'll be happier, and wake up

one morning 150 pounds lighter.

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Beulah the whale - that is kinda cute.

- Don't worry, you are doing great. Since we are revisions we

will lose slower than we did with our previous surgeries. I was in the

hospital

8 days NPO - came out, went to the hotel gym anticipating weighing myself -

weighed exactly the same thing I weighed on surgery day.

I am 7.5 weeks out of surgery and have lost 33 lbs.- I have been measuring

my weight against my weight diary from my RNY and at 7 weeks out after my RNY

I was down 42 lbs. So, like me, you are expecting to keep pace with the

original surgery.

I, too, still have my feeding tube in. It is almost like a new body limb -

instead of putting two legs into my jeans, I have an extra appendage to

squeeze in there. It comes in handy when I can't imagine stomaching another

protein shake! Just pop it through the tube, although I do look forward to

seeing

it gone. Due to a stomach stricture 2 weeks ago that Dr. K had to scope and

open with a balloon, I will keep it a little longer.

I walk twice every day - once in the morning, once in the evening and eat

healthy. My weight has hit a plateau; however, I know I am doing the right

things as I am sure you are too. We have to be a little more patient this time

around.

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Doc has told us numerous times to throw the scale away. It will only

frustrate you. He says to concentrate instead on how you feel. You should not be

concentrating on a number, but on how you are getting healthier and feeling

better day by day. I know that as early out as you are you don't see as much

as

you will as little farther along. You are just being too hard on yourself. Go

slow, eat right, walk, and throw that *( & % & # scale away. It serves no

purpose, except to frustrate you. Now seriously, what does that scale do for

you?

Nothing. When you see Doc is enough, especially early on. Even later on. Come

to the meetings and weigh then. That is enough. Feel your clothes get loose,

feel yourself be able to breathe. Those are the things that count, not the

numbers. I have lost 170 pounds over a three year period. It took me three

years to do a pound and a half to two pounds a month. But it is gone. I would

never have believed it. I am in clothes that if I couldn't see the size I

wouldn't believe I was wearing them. I still find myself going to the plus size

and

then remind myself to scoot over. A lifelong habit. I am almost 69, so I

have a long time to have had that habit. Please, don't let that scale describe

you, or this surgery.. If you do what you are supposed to, it will work. Just

go slow. That is best. Then you won't yo-yo.

Pearl

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