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Thank you everyone for the kind words and encouragement and for just being here to listen. It is great to have this supportive place. I do try to tell myself it is a surgery for big people and it will be ok. My surgeon has done many and some bigger than me so I should just have faith. Part of me just wants to get to May and be done and the other part is like whoa time is flying lol. I'm sure I will be on here ranting more over journey and hopefully in a few months I'll be comforting newbies as well. Thanks again for support and just listening/reading my fears as this helps me more than you will ever know :-)

I read that Gastric Bypass patients lose an average of 75% of their excess body weight. At the time of surgery, I weighed 346 and my ideal body weight by BMI is approximately 190 pounds. So, that means I am carrying an excess weight of 156 pounds. 75% of 156 pounds is 117 pounds. So that means if I lost 75% of my excess weight, I would be a relatively svelt 229 pounds. Crunching the numbers is interesting. 229 seems like an impossibly long way off but I'm only going to take it day by day.

I know I'm a day late on this, but I haven't come up with what I am giving up for Lent this year. We had a sermon a few years ago about how Lent is not a diet plan, it's not meant to be a second chance at re-starting a New Year's resolution. That sort of kicked me right in the guilt-button, because I had given up sugar before and the whole focus ended up being how great I felt and how much weight I had lost. Not the point of Lent. So all you Anglicans/Catholics, tell me what you chose and why!

I was about 400 and lost 47 before my surgery last week, counting a one-week pre-op liquid diet. You should not have any problems. Just do what they tell you too, there are good reasons, like walking to get rid of excess co2 they fill you up with for the operation. Every surgeon seems to have a different variation of procedures, just do what they say. One thing I saw suggest, it to have sleeping arrangements ready for when you come home. I can't sleep on my back, I toss and turn, but I can sleep two n a recliner. All the guy crunching you do getting into and out of, and rolling in bed can aggravate the main incision area. A recliner to sleep in really helped. If you don't have one, arrange your bed so you can easily get into moving as little as possible, like moving a a table away. You might want some chewable gax-x tablets ready too, and pre-supply your post-op diet because you might not feel like doing much post-op, but I think that's for any surgery. Also, bring some slip-on shoes to walk in. During my walks in the hospital (every 4 hours), I just used the socks with the tiny grip thingies on them. Walking a lot on them was not comfortable, but I was also walking alot (according to them). My first walk was 5 laps on the floor, which turned out to be over a quarter mile. They were expecting 1 or 2 laps at most. I got up to 8 laps eventually, but the bad posture on just socks on hard floor was not working well, so I cut it back to 4. Sent from my XT1609 using BariatricPal mobile app

if you have purged yourself of sugar since october then i am sure you will have a strong reaction, especially with something as sugar and carb laden as ice cream.

It was about an hour or two after dinner... I knew it had something to do with my new stomach but wasn't sure if anyone else was experiencing this. I've had ice cream before and I've been fine, I guess it's kind of a hit or miss thing. I sometimes get this feeling with certain protein shakes... I'll just keep having to experiment and figure it all out I sometimes forget how sensitive our new stomachs can be

it is what it is. Obviously, you can stretch and tone and hope for the best....but don't expect miracles. When you're done...if you don't like how it looks, consider plastics. Youth helps. Weighing less when you start helps. Good collagen genetics help. There is some evidence that losing weight slower helps, but the bottom line seems to be that loose skin is nearly unavoidable when you have a significant weight loss.

Thank you very much. It is great to hear so much supportive comments. I am stubborn and I know I can do this. Just good to have a place to talk about the fears and doubts when they come up. Good luck to you and I can't wait to see your successful journey as well.

Definitely love this response...

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