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I bought an amazing gadget that turns zucchini into round spaghettilike strands and other veggies can be made into flat noodle shapes. I stir it around in a non-stick pan with a little salt and leave it al dente and it is delicious. I like it better than regular pasta and it is extremely low cal and NO carbs!!! I got it on Amazon at this site ~http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_16?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=vegetable+noodle+maker&sprefix=vegetable+noodle%2Caps%2C281 Here is what it looks like in the pan ~

They remove a section that absorbs calories and nutrients to get you started. The malabsorption lasts up to two years but you will require supplemental vitamins and minerals for life.

My joints have been bad since high school and I have other chronic pain issues. This will definitely make it easier to get around. I go to acoustic music festivals in the summer and need to be able to do a lot of walking. I need to be hauling instruments not hobbling about on a walker. :wub:

Hi! I am 60 and will be having band to RnY on 3/13. My grandson is 11 and my granddaughter is 9. They will appreciate a grandma that will be able to do more physical things with them. I will also add that as soon as I am feeling well enough after the RnY, I have to have a total left hip revision as the rod in my femur never adhered and has been loose for two years and hurts. This revision is 3 times worse than the original and I will be hobbling on a walker for quite some time. My goal is to be able to walk well and be down a decent amount by July.

This is the schedule recommended by the ASMBS, however, your doctor may want something different ~ Breakfast – multi, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that) lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (you can take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast) Snack - 500 mg calcium citrate dinner – multi, Iron, Vitamin C Bedtime – 500 mg calcium citrate These schedules have you taking the Vitamins recommended by the ASMBS, along with taking Vitamin C with your iron because then you’ll absorb that iron better. If you pair your vitamins up with meals, it gets easier to remember them, I think. And it doesn’t matter if you sleep late or go to bed early or whatever, because it’s not a certain time of day you take them, it’s just whenever you eat breakfast or go to bed.

I am probably the grandma of the group. I am 60 and my grandson is 11 and my granddaughter is 9. Bought myself a bike a couple of years ago and then required a hip replacement and could not ride it. Turned out the hip did not heal well and I have been walking around with a loose rod in my leg for two years and it hurts. It was to have been revised on 10/26 and the cancelled it about an hour before I was to leave for the hospital as my surgeon and his partner were going to do it together at the smaller hospital, closer to me. It turned out that the hospital was simply not equipped for some things that are very likely to happen and it will be done at the big hospital across the state from me as soon as I heal well enough from the WLS. That is going to be a biggie and will haveme hobbling about on a walker for a long time. We go to music festivals in the summer and my goal is to be able to be without a walker and able to ride my bike. I had my husband put a basket on the front and folding side baskets over the back fender so I could use it to go to the local stores. Oh, and I see I even have a pink hat and a pink & purple horn.

Surgey on 3/13/13 at Barix in Ypsilanti with Dr. Taylor.

Hi! My original date was 1/4 but due to a major thyroid issue it got cancelled at my 12/26 pre-op and I was devastated. Got everything under control and was scheduled for April Fool's Day. which is just so wrong. The scheduler called me this afternoon to tell me that there was a cancellation and my new date is 3/13/13 (I like the numbers ~ easy to remember my new *birthday*) with a pre-op on 2/25. I do not have to have the 2-week liquid diet. BTW, I also post on the big ObesityHelp.com - RNY thread and I have NEVER heard of anyone having a g-tube.

Hi! I was scheduled for 1/4 but when I went to my pre-op on 12/26 my bloodwork showed that my thyroid was way, way too low. It quir working about 25 years ago and I take 250 mcs of Synthroid daily, but due to sleep deprivation and some other issues, my med schedule got all messed up and they canceled the surgery! I have faithfully been taking my regular dose plus an extra 25 mcgs. I had labs done Thursday and it is now normal. My doc has approved it and I have a call into scheduling. They are scheduling into March and April right now, but I am hoping they feel sorry for me and give me the first cancellation date. As soon as I have this surgery and recover enough, I have to have a big surgery which is going to put my out of commission for quite some time and I am hoping to be all okay by summer.

Glad to hear you can keep your date. I discovered that not only was I not in compliance with my med taking, I was taking the wrong dose. This is going to soiund really stupid, but I am supposed to be on 250 mcgs of Synthroid daily and they do not make a 250, so I have been taking a 200 and a 50, or so I thought. I know I had a mixture of white and orange ones in the one bottle (as they raised it for a bit and it was too much) and thought the orange ones were the 50s, but they are the 25s. So, instead of taking the 250 mcgs, when I took them, I was only getting 225 mcgs. This sounds like a piddly amountm but between that and then not taking them as I should really made a difference. I am going to up it to 275 mcgs per day and have my blood retested in a month and hope it has come down enough to be put back on the schedule and hope for another cancellation so I do not have to wait so long. It is not that I am in such a hurry to lose the weight, rather I have to wait till the band to RNY heals enough for me to have a revision on my hip replacement which is a big surgery with a long recovery time and I do not want it to interfere with my summer activities, which include a lot of walking. Good luck to all of you that have January dates!!!!!! :wub: Wish I was still one of you!!

I just talked to my PCP and he will not increase my dosage, however, his nurse said that if I faithfully take my Synthroid in the proper manner that it would more than likely resolve within a month, so I am going to wait the month and have it done and see where I am at. I was just shocked to see that it had gotten so bad, as I had labs done for the hip surgery that got cancelled in October and they were fine at the time I had the PAT for that. I am just feeling like Eeyore and hoping that I can get this together and that they will have a cancellation date available for me. They did say they do get a lot of cancellations like mine, so, hopefully I can get it done within a couple of months. I also discovered I gained 12 pounds since my appointment and need to get those off!!!

I am simply devestated!!!! We drove 3 hours to my pre-op testing and I went to the nutrition class and did all the x-rays only to find out that my thyroid test was too far off and they cancelled my 1/4 surgery!!! I have an old, blind, deaf dog who has been changing my sleep hours all around and I have missed some of my thyroid doses. They said the TSH was 73.96 and it has to be under 20.00 before they will reschedule me and I will have to do the entire PAT thing over again. They suggested I call my PCP and see if I can have my already high dosage upped for a little and have it checked in a month and if it is under 20, they will reschedule me whevever. I am no longer a January date and have no idea how long it will take for it to build up in my system. The one nurse was thinking even up to 3 MONTHS!!!!! This has really hit me hard as I was so very prepared for this and now it has to start all over again. Have any of you run into this and have an idea when I can realistically got in for a sucessful blood draw for good TSH levels if I faithfully follow my med schedule? I do not want to waste a trip.

Another helpful site is obesityhelp.com. They have oodles and oodles of before and after picture to inspire you.

Glad to hear you are doing well. Lynn