Ok, so an update: I’m suddenly doing well. My nutritionist kept telling me for some people, it could take 3-4 months for weight loss to start. As you know, I wasn’t losing any weight and my doc had no idea why. He NEVER expressed that I was doing anything wrong, but you know I felt so much shame and embarrassment that it must be me and so I really hated going to my appointments.
I felt so much pressure from myself to fix this.
My doc said I must have a sensitive metabolism and that whatever was going on, we would just wait it out knowing that at some point, it would have to stop holding on to the weight and start dropping it.
So that became the plan— just keep on keeping on and wait it out.
I lost 2 pounds officially on my 4th month visit. Roll eyes. But I was thrilled to show something to him.
Keep in mind too, that I don’t think it’s necessarily correct to use the benchmark of weight starting point as weight the day of surgery because you have to fast and empty your stomach the weekend before surgery, so to me, the day of surgery weight is not real.
Month 5 or 5.5 (can’t exactly remember), was like an 8 pound loss.
Now I’m 6th months out and I’m down about 18 pounds. (I still fluctuate badly and if I eat any restaurant food, I will be up 6-8 pounds for a week).
Then my knees blew out, so at my last ortho appr (October 26), I discovered I need 2 new knees. My appointment to seriously discuss surgery and likely get a surgery on the books in on November 24. I am inclined to do them both at the same time for various reasons, including Covid and possible shut down again of non-emergent surgeries.
The PA who does the appointment I attended said for me to lose as much weight as possible in the next month— like as in shoot for a 30 pound loss.

Which is possible for many bariatric patients, but as you know probably not me. Oh and he told me not to exercise because anything I did would make my left knee worse. The right knee is already gone, so it doesn’t hurt as much. I’m in a lot of pain and use an upright walker now.
So I called the dietitian and told her that and she told me to ditch the isagenix shakes (this, I think, turned out to be important) and go to Sam’s and get premier protein shakes and quest bars,
Will post this so I don’t lose it.