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Well guys it’s my first official day on this life adventure. Today I start my liquid diet and Surgery is March 7 wish me luck

@Nanajoy@Sammy 10-30 glad you both are enjoying Bariatric Plan. ask any and alll of your questions suggest maybe use the SEARCH button in top right hand corner you will find that many OP have already asked the same ?, and you can learn from them. you will get answers, opinions, experiences and more many responses will be different because we are all supposed to do only what our NUT tells us to do never compare yourself to others - you'll learn many important/valuable things here. after listening to OP, medical questions should be asked and answered by your doc or NUT good luck kathy

Wanted to say hey and introduce myself!! My name is Jason, I’m 34 and live in Florida. I am having the gastric sleeve on Wednesday and I’m super excited and nervous. I was in a long term relationship and we broke up because she didn’t want me to have the surgery. I’m single, loving life, and excited for the new chapter in my life!! Love to chat with some of you all to help form a support group!!

Always keep track of your meals, even if it means you have to write it down. Make certain times for meals, drinks and vitamins and meds (if applicable). Hw-273 Sw-226 CW-134 GW-130 Size- 4 or 6, Small in sweats. Small in shirts. depends on how it's cut or made. Bra Size- 36C Surgery Date- April 26th, 2017 RNY "Only those who try will become" FFX

You look amazing!!! Sent from my SM-G930VL using BariatricPal mobile app

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Central Ohio almost smack dab in the middle 14 miles from the Geographic Center which is Centerburg, the town my Mama lived near and graduated from the High School there. Lord, the things i know about that place. One of my ancestors, Preston Hubbell, gave the town fathers a loan when they were laying out the town. Came time for the loan to fall due, they didn't have the ready cash so they named Preston Street after him instead. Charter is the sons of Seabiscuit the horse that bought Time Warner and instigated these lovely changes. We were an independent cable company until. 2000 when TW took us over and bundled us into their Columbus Ohio division. We lost most of our local programming but intill recently we retained our Monday night City Council meetings, they suddenly disappeared, no warning. Seems like our bill keeps going up in small increments, they holler about adding more, as an example I have the Weather Channel 3 different # on the grid, CNN 4#, that's not improvement that's duplication. Their excuse: we have so many packages out there. Not my problem-there's. You ought know how the American retail philosophy is- New and Improved means the box is smaller or its gone up in price! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Mine took 1 week and I scheduled my surgery for 2 weeks later. Sent from my SM-G930VL using BariatricPal mobile app

So your post sounds just like me...add a few advanced nursing degrees AND the fact that I had RNY done 25 years ago to make me feel like even more of a failure. I'm back going through the process of considering a revision to my original surgery at my highest weight ever. IF insurance will approve. While it would be awesome to get a total do-over with the RNY process (not just the reducing the stomach which is essentially what I'm not a candidate for) I don't regret my decision 25 years ago. I am sad that back then there was little/no follow-up, no real rules on diet/caffeine/timing of water intake/etc --maybe I'd have had better long term success. BUT I did lose just over 100lbs. Felt better than I had in my entire life and did more than I'd ever done - travel, marriage, shoppig in normal size clothing stores, etc. I have been morbidly obese since 6th grade and overweight since I was 7. That surgery got me closer to "normal" than ever. No diet I did before that or since then has been so successful- a year long protein shake diet did result in 70lbs lost but then I regained all + some much faster than after surgery. But, I realize now that I half-assed the process and expected that it would just magically work on its own. I'm sure deep down I probably still sort of think that way. I'm older have a couple kids that wish mom was more active and am restricted from doing things because of my weight and that makes me sad. This time I'm throwing everything at it...sort of feel like it's my last ditch effort. After my mandated psych eval for surgery I opted to continue working with the counselor who specializes in all types of eating disorders and am seeing a bariatrician who will prescribe WL meds. I've long thought until someone fixes the chemicals in my brain WL will never be long term, so I believe in meds. I'm taking the process so slow unlike in the past where I jumped into huge lifestyle shifts that were only sustainable for short-ish periods of time. I didn't even start a legit "diet" until just this week even though I've been going through the pre-cert process since October...and it's not really a diet- just replacing one meal a day with a shake per the changes prescribed by the bariatrician. On the advice of the counselor I've been setting one really small goal each week that is hopefully attainable and I'm able to maintain. Who knows what will happen with the WLS approval process. I'm hopeful the other adjuncts I'm working on will help me be successful for the long term. IF surgery is approved, it's really just another piece of the WL puzzle though a really nice one in terms of the ability to lose weight rapidly. It's up to me to keep it off though.

My recommendation is to call your doctor's office and ask. No one on BP will have the answer you are looking for. Any advice you get will be a guess at best.