2bsmallagain

Ok we are ready to hear how your doing.. Thoughts and prayers are with you.

No your not doing anything wrong except weighing each day lol. Do not weigh yourself but once a week. Keep taking liquids at least 64 ounces, 70 to 90 grams of Protein and stay calm. You may not lose each week according to the scale but you will lose inches also. Stay under 600 calories if you can and keep drinking fluids. You will have stalls the most famous one seems to be at 3 weeks so do not panic you will lose weight. I have done so much research and this happens to everyone. You cannot weigh everyday or you will go insane lol.. RELAX....

The diet is designed to shrink your liver for surgery. This is needed because the liver can get in the way during surgery. The diet is to prevent it from being nicked during the procedure and bleeding to occur. It is very important to follow the diet you are put on due to your BMI. It is not designed to torture anyone although it sounds like it. There are medical reasons for the diet.

May 7th in Tijuana with Dr. Garcia!

Your surgery is 3 days after mine. I am using Dr. Garcia though.

How tall are you? I have enjoyed watching youtube videos. It helps a lot of people. When is your surgery?

I am going to Dr. Garcia on May 7th and it is a good decision for you so don't worry about what one jerk says.

Do not let someone else talk you out of being healthy and having a much needed procedure for your future. This is necessary. If you do not have the surgery and do not lose all the weight they will be watching you slowly die and not even realize it.

Okay. I understand. Thank you very much.

Keep us posted on how your doing. Thanks for the information. I will being having my surgery on May 7th and it is coming pretty fast.

Probably. It is a scary thing. I can only imagine the feeling of doing something permanent. It will all be fine and the scale going down will soften any thoughts of regret. Congratulations.

There is a surgery call gastric plication that sort of ties the stomach back to form a sleeve. It does not take the hunger away but does give you the illusion of a sleeve and is reversable. It can cause some issues though with infection and things getting caught and causing serious problems. You can google gastric plication and look at youtube for it.

What is bothering you so much about it? I want to know so I know what to expect. Tell me about your experience.

That is strange.

My BCBS of Alabama would not take weight watchers. They said it had to be a doctor monitored weight loss and it had to be in my medical records in the last 6 months. They said letters would not help. They also said my BMI had to be over 40. They are so picky who knows what they will do. I am going to Mexico instead.

Wouldn't getting the sleeve be a backwards move from the bypass procedure? Isn't the bypass rerouting the digestion bypassing the stomach all together and going straight to the intestines? I just want to make sure I am understanding what the procedure is.

I wouldn't panic. When they approved the surgery they entered into a contract with the surgeon to pay for it. They will bicker back and forth about what will be paid and you should only have to pay what you originally would have paid.

My suggestion would be to increase your protein to 70 to 90 grams a day. That will speed up the weight loss.

purees are considered full liquids I believe. As long as it is the consistency of a protein shake.

I will be on a clear liquid diet for one week after surgery then full liquids. I think that is pretty normal.

HMMM... very interesting. I will have to get some for my surgery! Thank you!

You look amazing!!

What are you eating? How many calories and protein?

Go to the search bar and put in Almanza. There should be a lot of threads about him and his patients. Congratulations!

This is the reason I am choosing not to tell people. If they have never been through being overweight than they do not know what is hard and what is not. I will only disclose my surgery to people that I can fully trust and no one else. It is a private thing that no one needs to know about. Stupid people are all over the world and they will say stupid things. I prefer not to give them the ammunition to piss me off.