Re: Weight Gain Pre-Op?

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I'm 5'3 " normally around 125 lbs. About two months prior to surgery

I started eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted it, as long as

it was relatively healthy food. Snarfing down for two months

brought me up to 131. I don't think a 6 lbs weight gain was

stressful to my system, especially not over two months - that's less

than a pound a week. I lost those six pounds the two days, one

night I was in the hospital. Seven more pounds came off that week.

The next week, after I was unbanded to eat, I started gaining half a

pound a day, and now I'm pretty much at my normal weight again.

If you're not skinny to start with, you probably have plenty of

reserves to get you through surgery. I probably didn't need to pack

on 6 lbs, but it sure was fun to eat my heart out, and it kept

people off my back. I get a LOT of comments about, " You don't have

any weight to lose. " Sure I do. It's all in my hips and butt.

Thanks for not looking there to notice it!

I think the stress to your system comes from gaining too many pounds

in a short time period - the same as losing a lot of weight too

quickly can be stressful to your system. Weight loss and gain

should be gradual.

When I started gaining weight so quickly post-op I asked my doc if I

would shoot past my normal weight and just keep gaining - basically,

am I eating to heal or am I overeating? I was doing six meals a day

at the time. He said to keep eating to heal, and that my body would

find its own level and the weight gain would slow down when it got

there. I cut down to only four meals a day anyway, and sure enough,

as I approach 125 the gain is slowing down instead of shooting

past. My body knows what it's supposed to weigh. I'll probaby stay

at 4 meals a day until week six, when I'm allowed to eat normally.

Kris

> Okay kids!!!

> Indulge me please! I called a friend of mine to inform her that I

am

> scheduled to have my upper/lower jaw surgery on June 2nd. She

asked

> if I was going to " try " to gain weight before the surgery. Try!!!

I

> live in New Orleans already! Who has to try! It's keeping the

> weight off that's the battle . . . LOL! But I digress. If memory

> serves me correctly, I believe I read a post that stated that

gaining

> weight prior to having surgery is not advisable. What is the

general

> consensus? Should one try to increase one's weight prior to

surgery

> or not? I'm 6'2 " and teeter between 160lbs to 165lbs. Wouldn't

it

> make more sense to take in plenty of nourishment after surgery as

an

> incentive not to lose weight? Any fielders on this one??? Have a

> great weekend everyone!!!

> Dale