MouseOnTheMile

Ok good people! I am flying to OCC in 8 hours!!!

GO KARLIY GO!!

Let us know how you make out immediately!

Did anyone think it would be unsafe to travel to OCC by them self from San Diego.< /div>

OOOOO I dunno, good question though, I'm going soon but my dad is coming with me

Mouse' date=' we have the same surgeon. I totally get what you're saying about the weight loss itself being used to measure liver shrinking success - our surgeon does have this requirement. I'm worried about the same thing! I'm about a month from pre-op and trying NOW to drop a few by eating better, drinking lots of Water and working out 3 days a week and am having no luck whatsoever.[/quote']

Are you using myfitnesspal?? If you are, pm me your name and I'll add you to my friends list

My surgery is next week, November 12th .. So yes, completely stressed out!

Dang! Only 3 shakes a day?! Holy bananas girl' date=' that isn't much.

I did 15 days as well and stalled out in the middle. Just stay the course and it will happen. You said before the stall you were stuck at 253, but then lost 3 finally? If that's the case, then you only have 5 more..and 7 more days of your pre op diet!

It will come off! The more you stress, the higher up the scale goes. Take lots of you time to now to de-stress!

Were all rooting for you mouse![/quote']

You sweet girl.

The pattern went

Day 1- 259

Day 2- 254

Day 3- 253

Day 4- 253

Day 5- 253

Day 6- 253

Day 7- 253

Day 8- 250.5 (dripping wet from shower)

Day 8- 252.5 (reweigh whilst dry)

So I still have 8 pounds to go. Which I normally wouldn't be worried about except for the deadline. Just completely baffled.

And once again. It might look like I'm weighing compulsively but they are judging my livers status by the weight I loss. I weigh ONCE daily (except for today because of the shower debacle) in the mornings after my BM.

!!RED FLAG ALERT!!

You can't do this to yourself. If you were a bio major' date=' then you know the body is going to hold on and release fluids all day long. It makes absolutely no sense to weigh yourself more than once a day. As was suggested above, stop weighing yourself. It will do you no good. Will the information the scale returns change how well you comply with your diet? What kind of a diet do they have you on?

I was on a lean and green with Protein shakes for 2 weeks. My surgeon told me afterwards how I must have been compliant with the diet because my liver was so easy to work with.

All you can do is your best. Ditch the scale altogether and just do the right thing. That is all you really can do, anyway.[/quote']

The only reason I weighed myself twice today was because the first time was foolishly done right after my shower. I figured the number was skewed, after all my hair was soaking. So I weighed again after I dried off, thinking that would give me a far more accurate result.

I'm on a 15 day liquids only diet. So far it seems my diet has been one of the more strict preops on this forum. Three Protein Shakes (I'm using the lowest low cal, low carb, high Protein I should find to minimize intake of empty calories) and 64 oz of Water. I can have up to four pounds of greens if I'm exceptionally hungry but I've tried to keep that at a minimum as I didn't want to be cheating in any way.

I'm doing great! I'm on a soft diet now and am 4 weeks out. The ONLY problem I've had is Constipation. Oh my goodness. I need to work out too. I'm down 19lbs since surgery and down 53lbs from my high weight.

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Thanks for the update, keep up the good work

How much weight do they want you to lose?

I started at 259, they want me at 245 and I've stalled at 253 for most of it. I understand the science behind it, I was a bio major once upon a time.

My scale must be screwing with me, to put me down and then up two in an hour without any intake of food doesn't make sense. Debating buying a new one tonight and burning this one for its treachery.

Thank you for the kind words everyone. It's the time frame that has me freaked out. If they weren't going by weight loss as the signature for if my liver is small enough, I wouldn't be nearly as freaked out.

I asked if they do a test for if my liver is small enough and was told they just go by how much weight I lose preop. So yes, it is about weight loss at this point.

I am fully ready for stalls post op. I don't care if I'm a fast or slow loser because I know it'll happen with time and effort and thats why I'm doing it young, cause I have lots of time to reach my goals.

But when I have paid a great deal of money to travel and have a surgery done and only have two weeks to get done to their projected weight and their diet is not working and if I go there and they don't operate that's waste cash on flights, then yes, I have more than a right to be distraught about the scale not showing my efforts.

Pre op liquid diet, Day 8 of 15.

I lost 6 pounds the first two days then stalled the last five days. This morning I got on the scale and was happy to see the stall broken, down almost another three. I weighed after my BM and shower and figured I'd weigh again after I dried off.

Dry hair and feeling like I was gonna be a full three pounds down, I stepped on the scale to be bewildered by a two pound increase, half a pound difference from where I have been the last five days. I was dry, naked and hadn't eaten or drank anything yet and so I am now ready to freak out, give up and eat all the burgers. This b******t makes no sense! I am on the verge of tears all the time.

I have done low carb diets in the past and lost 38 pounds in two weeks. Now I'm on liquids for 15 days and losing nothing. I'd rather make sensible choices and lose the weight then this pointless suffering for nothing. I know it'll help for when I'm out of surgery and blah blah blah but ffs I'm BEYOND frustrated. If I'm denied surgery after all of this I might kill some one.

At this point I don't need support, I need a gosh darn lobotomy.

Karliy' date=' you're right! It was going to be at the pool. I definitely don't think you will be in any condition to get in any pool even if you could, much less expose your fresh incisions to chlorine. You're going to have a 4x4 dressing on your JP site with a lot of tape over it that you can't get wet. You don't shower until day 3. You shower before your appointment and they change it that day. Then the day you leave, they pull the drain and put steri-strips on the site and a couple 4x4s just in case you have a little drainage.

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Back2barb, I've been dying for an update! How are you doing? How far out are you and what stage are you in??

Yeah that's what I figured... Lol. But back2barb said she had planned to spend time at the pool! I guess the key word there was AT the pool not IN the pool? I would love to lay in the sunshine but I guess I could do that in my pjs!

Hopefully she'll get back to you soon about that I'm excited. Officially seven days til I leave fore OCC, eight until surgery

I ignore the starvation message, and I understand why it's there. Obviously we as wls users with doctors order to only eat 800 calories a day are the minority of people using it and MFP is most likely covering its back with the disclaimer message to avoid encouraging people with eating disorders of another breed from finding the app enabling to their illness.

It probably sadly still happens but at least they understand what implications a calorie counter can have on certain minds.

So this is probably a dumb question but I'm going to ask it anyway... How long till I can get my incisions wet? I'm trying to pack... we leave in the morning and I wondered if it was worth taking my swimsuit?

Hehe I don't think you'll be doing much swimming dear it's still surgery, those other days there you'll still be recovering. I could be wrong though.

Dont get discouraged. It has not been easy.(you know my pain) I hv a bigger gut and my body is just tearing it up. I hv measured 74 oz of Water a day. Plus my Protein Drinks is low carb low sugar. We can do it!!!

Oh yeah, my whey powder is super low cal and sugar, high protein... At least compared to what I've found.

Using two different ones, see attached:

Day 7 of my pre op liquid diet down 20lbs. 7 more days.

Ugh! Good job! I'm day seven and I'm only down 6lbs! *weeps*

What most people don't realize (especially someone whose never had a large amount of weight to lose) is that studies show that if you need to lose more than 20% of your body mass (most of us need to lose well over that), the only real way to secure that loss and MAINTAIN that weight loss long term is through surgery.

People might think its extreme but yoyo dieting hasn't gotten us anywhere except obese and it's not their life being effected by it.

You make the choice for you, and your mother will deal with it either way. My parents weren't thrilled at first and I only have around 90 pounds to lose, but now they have come around and are being extremely supportive. Because they know I'm trying to fix this now so I don't have issues when I'm older. Mostly parents and other support systems worry because they fear surgery will kill you. You are FAR more likely to die of obesity related health problems than you are to from the sleeve.

Let us know what you decide either way

Is that a breathing thingies with balls inside going up and down? My friend got that too after her surgery

Yeah it is

Hi all' date='

My name is Angie and I had my revision on Sept. 26th with Dr Ortiz and Dr Martinez. This was my 5th Surgery At the OCC. I got my first band on April 2005. Worked well for me ( as I thought) I lost 140 lbs in 5 months. Well turned out that was a bad thing the band had slipped I was vomiting everything I ate or drank. Returned to the OCC for band removal. I was devastated as I had never been a normal weight. I now had to wait 6 months to be rebanded. So that my tummy could heal. Went back to OCC to be rebanded at exactly 6 months to the day ( I was counting down that 6 month wait). In Oct. 2007 was rebanded ready to lose the 75 lbs that I have regained. So excited . Never could lose weight with the new band. In 2008 my 19 year old son died. So next few years went by that I didn't care about anything. Not about my weight or how to make that band work for me. Then this year after not taking care of myself and eating right I got gerd. The gerd was going into my lungs and making it very difficult to breath. It was determined that I needed to lose my second band and needed to lose it fast. I knew that I couldn't trust anyone other than my Dr.'s at OCC. As even though I had lost 2 bands I knew it wasn't there fault but that I never used the tool the way it was designed. After discussing with my husband what I needed to do we decided no more bands. My husband wanting me to just be done with all WLS I knew I could never lose or maintain on my own. I convinced him to let me go with the sleeve . I'm now 5 weeks out I feel great. This is so different from the band. I have been keeping up with all your post and other post on here. I was really hesitant to post on the forum as I was afraid that I might say something that would offend someone and it turn bad. But after reading all your post I felt comfortable enough to tell my story and hopefully become one of the losing buddies here. Sorry this turned out to be so long once I started it just kept coming out.

 

HW: 274(preop)

SW: 260

CW: 241[/quote']

 

Welcome! I'm sorry to hear about your hardships.

I had sharted for about a week postop. I learned to never trust a "fart".

Hahahaha

Best of luck :3

Ringo I am so thrilled for you!!! That's awesome that it all went so well! Makes me less nervous too. Mouse we started at almost exactly same weight but I am on day 12 of pre op. How tall are you?

My stats:

Age: 25

Height: 5'6-5'7 (depends on who measures haha)

HW: 259lbs

CW: 253lbs

Surgery: November 12th

Day 6 of 15 day preop diet

What about you?

I've emailed the nutritionist a couple times, she said well reevaluate closer to the day if we need to get an extra push of sorts.

Still nervous :/

Im six days into my preop and have only lost 6 pounds. They asked me to try and lose 15. I'm feeling very nervous... I don't want to be rejected. I started at 259 and it's slow going.

Question: what kind of test did they do to test if your liver was small enough??