Happy Poucher!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations! Make sure you watch it or you might shoot past your goal

Very awesome! I also found that my system would absorb every calorie that passed my lips. Sometimes I think I absorb calories that I look at!

Jan

Congratulations! I am 6'3" and three months back right after my surgery, I weighed 135lbs!!!!!
Today I am 166 lbs and once again able to do hings I love. I am not in a big hurry to put on more pounds but I do hope things keep getting better. This surgery definitely has been a life saver!

I am a female who is 5'5 and weigh 122. Since TD, my belly makes me look like I weigh 140 and my arms and legs look like sticks. I have not gained one ounce since take down.

Mostly, it is genetics for me, but I can't seem to put ANY weight on. I am moderately active with part time work, walking the dogs and gardening, but I also love to eat.

I could step on the scale after eating a huge steak and potato dinner and I swear, it will say I LOST a pound.

Doing exercises will not help firm up my belly, since it I now have a hernia.

ps: When I left the hospital a year ago after the loss of my colon, I weighed 91 lbs.

I look like you lesandiego except I also have a but in the front, thanks to my scaring. I lost 65 lbs after my surgeries, which was the prednisone weight I could never loose. I've felt so bad since then with problems relating to this and my other health problems I'm holding steady on the weight side but have not been able to exercise.

It's hard to find clothing that fits as I'm 2 sizes bigger in the middle than the rest of me.

You would think since they removed a major organ our abdomen's would be smaller!

TE Marie - You are soooo right about clothes that don't fit!

The best way to gain weight in arms and legs if you're not genetically pre-disposed to carry fat there is to gain muscle. Make sure you're eating plenty of daily protein and try some gentle weight training. Doesn't have to be anything crazy or even very heavy. Weightbearing exercise is also very good for your bones, and most of us having been on prednisone in the past could use the boost.

Maybe I exaggerated a bit on the clothes but they are at least 1 size off

Exercising would be good, especially where they've cut all muscles in my abdomen in 5 surgeries over the years, grr.

Wow this all nice to read that all of you are happy campers! Now the weight issue, I am waiting for the takedown sugery and since I have had the second step I have lost 14 pounds. Nothing fits! I have always been low in weight, my original weight was 114 pounds and I am now 100 pounds, YIKES! Food as soon as I eat it goes right through me even with the ammodium. So after takedown I will still be losing? I already look anorexic and I dont even want to leave my house because of it and the leakage issue too. The leakage comes out of the bottom of my stoma and my butt too. I am so looking foward to not have to deal with it anymore

You might want to have some Ensure like drinks on hand for after take down. I didn't have much of an appetite but had plenty of weight to loose so it didn't matter.

Good Luck, things are going to get better!

After my first surgery I lost quite a bit of weight... (I'd been hospitalized for 40 days total). I was a small girl, started at about 104, and left at about 89. I was wearing size 14 teen jeans, lol. I started out about a size 3, lost it, then creeped back to 100lbs by takefown. I've consistently been 123lbs for the past 5 years.

Rachel,
I hope to gain back my weight but I know it not going to be before the takedown.I went in weighing 112 and today I weiged myself and I am down to a low 97 pounds, yikes! I look like I have an eating disorder or something. I just look awful. Do you think after the takedown I will loose even more? Gosh I hope not!!! thank you!!