Weight Loss Post op and onwards

[Magic8Ball]

Everyone, whats the affect of AVR and Warafin on your stature (weight).

i'm 6ft4ins tall and 18stone, i'm not 'fat' but am big, probably the lightest i can remember being was 14 1/2 stone when 19 and i looked like a stick.


So should i be preparing myself and my family for weightloss immediately post op and then ongoing afterwards or does any immediate weightloss post op return as normal once you rehabilitation has finished.

Cheers.

 

[Jas0n]

i can only chime in from my personal experience with avr (no blood thinners for me), but i lost a significant amoutn of weight after my surgery. at 5'10", i walked into the o.r weighing 163lbs and seven weeks post op, my weight has plataeud at 154lbs. for a while, much of the weight i lost was very notiecable; i looked very very skinny and my skin coloring was pale, to say the least. the 9 pound diff between now and pre op amounts to muscle loss; even at 163lbs, i was very very lean (8% body fat) and it will take a while (and alot of work) for me to put back that weight. i find it very interesting that i lost so much muscle mass so quickly, esp. in my upper body. its almost as if my body metabolized ONLY my upper body muscle during those first two weeks when i was only able to eat very little.

 

[MikeHeim]

I was 6'2" and 198lbs before my surgery (I checked the day before). Not sure how many stones that is - probably depends on how big they are (just kidding ). Anyways, I dropped to 180lbs almost immediately after surgery. The strange thing is that I never really had the loss of appetite that many other people describe. My best uneducated guess is that your body spends a TON of calories trying to heal itself and that's where some of the weight loss comes from. (I just made that up, so don't go spreading it around.) None of my friends or family mentioned my weight loss, but that might be because they were with me every day. However, when I went back to work about ten weeks post-op, virtually every single person mentioned how much thinner my face looked.

To make a short story long, I'm now back up in the mid-190's.

 

[hensylee]

most of us lose but eventually it comes back.

 

[Hot Rod Harry]

I went from 195 lbs, down to 180. I'm now back up to 195, but I have more body fat now. After OHS I had a loss of appetite, but as that came back, I ate what I wanted, as I knew that my body would need high calories.

Now, I'm trying to loose some, to get back some muscle mass, but loose the fat. The focus now is to make it easier for the heart.