SusanSleevey

I am not a doctor, but i read alot. Ketosis is what we need to do in order to lose weight. It is important that you stay in Ketosis until you lose the weight. This surgery allows you to be able to manage this process by eliminating your hunger whether through hormones or just by feeling full. Down some protien shakes and then cucumbers and you aren't looking at very many calories. Even the doctor said you will be at 500 calories, which would put anyone into Ketosis. While in Ketosis it is important to make sure to stay hydrated and some other blood work needs to be done. I keep hearing 1200 calories and I am thinking to myself...No way and I am 5'10". I was 180, running 5 miles a day at twelve noon in Miami every single day, eating twelve hundred calories and not losing a pound. I couldn't cut anymore than that because I was starving. I didn't know about Ketosis. I am really hoping the the liquid protien supplements are enough to keep my protein up and then I will actually feel full from fruits and vegetables when I am not drinking, and I want to stay around 600 to 800 calories a day. Yor body can go into starvation, but if you eat then it just stores. Ketosis is that place where you are starving, but your body is burning your reserves. Fat people have a lot of reserves I don't know i just can't fathom ever eating 1200 calories ever again in my life. This is all about calorie restriction. If you aren't losing or you are stalling, you are not in Ketosis and you are consuming too many calories. NOT SURE THOUGH. just my thoughts.

I remember being with Kaiser and trying to get this done, but they of course didn't cover it. Once you are fat those fat cells never go away and I think my Doctor said only 5% of people lose it and keep it off, so even if you lose the likelyhod that you will be able to sustain the weightloss on your own is not that promising. I am taking a new career path an want to make documentary films about weight loss game shows. I have a funny feeling that most of the contestants are held to some sort of agreement where they can't speak out about the show or go on camera if they gained all the weight back. In any event. I think it would be a good idea to weight lift as you can lose muscle in this process. I really wouldn't worry about it. This surgery is for the long term, but call your insurance company. I would just google...insurance company denied me because I lost too much weight in pre op diet. something might come up.

No one wrote you back. I tried a liquid diet just to see if I could do it prior to my surgery to lose weight on my own. It obviously didn't work as I am going for surgery next Monday. I remember faintly hearing about the line between being in Ketosis and not being in Ketosis, but I am not sure. Call your Doc. He will be able to help you.

I was supposed to start the liquid thingy one week out which was yesterday as my surgery is on the 13th. I am ok during the day, but when I get home yup...I ate. I can not even think about drinking those nasty protein shakes so I found some clear liquid protiens that are awesome, but I am STARVING! I am hungry right now as I write this. I did better for food today then yesterday's PIZZA! Today it was just a couple of tator tots and a scrambled egg or two So I see some people have three week diet and then some a 24 hour liquid diet and some a week? What give? Doctor said it was to reduce the size of my liver. Just don't know why there are so many variations. I should have started a couple days before because I can see myself going 100% liquid by Friday.

Dr. Salameh - VA Hospital Center - June 13th - Twelve Noon

I just paid $17,800 for my sleeve yesterday. I have my surgery at 12 noon on June 13th. Can I get a refund? Boy do I have cold feet! Will I die? And if I do make it, just the thought of not being able to eat an entire pizza freaks me out. What if I don't lose weight? What if my skin sags? What if my sleeve leaks and I get sick? I am sort of grateful that I don't see myself as fat. When I get my picture taken I can't even believe that is me, so once I am sort of skinny or real skinny I will feel normal again. I keep asking myself why am I doing this...I am not that fat. But when I see my picture I am like WHOA I AM A BIG GIRL. I was just in California where every billboard is about the lap band. The lap band has been FDA approved for people who are just 30 pounds overweight. I see this surgery in the future as being almost cosmetic in nature. I wish I were only 30 pounds overweight. I guess I am just running my mouth. Not really sure what to say. Everyone says it is going to be ok on this, but did anyone have a leak? Is anyone suffering right now and in pain? My boyfriend tells me I should just go to the gym. Non-Fat people don't understand what it is like to be fat. It is like the worst. Sure I am a freakin really happy person, but being fat is seriously the worst feeling. Ok. Well June 13th. Twelve Noon. OMG!

So after reading so many posts I decided to post my fears and the things I don't fear. I fear that I will lose to much. I am tall. I like having some meat. Just not the amount that I have now. I don't want to be skinny. I would love to be a size 14. I have been there before, and I was super happy. Now that I am a 22, I refuse to take pictures. I still see myself as a size 14. This girl at size 22 is not me. I am a super model. I just seriously seriously seriously do not want to be super skinny! Is it possible to lose so much that you could be super skinny? My surgery is on May 19th. I am scared that I am going to die. I am scared my skin is going to look terrible. I am scared I am going to get sick and then die. I am scared that Sally Field is going to have me on a commerical talking about donations for the hungry children of the world. I seriously know that isn't funny but I can see my ribs and I feel that I will just look sickly. I also don't want to weigh myself. I honestly don't care. I just want to wear a size 14 again. I saved all my clothes over the past six years. Boxes full of sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 and now I am a 22. Is it wrong if someone asks me how much weight I have lost that I say... I don't know! I don't want to know. I don't even want to know my starting weight. I have asked the doctors/nurses not to tell me. I just want to fit on a roller coaster again. I don't want to have to squeeze into the seats at KA in Las Vegas. I just want to be flirted with again. I want to not think about breaking something if I sit on it. Whatever weight will give me all of these things I will take it. What are your thoughts on what I have said and what your fears are or were?