Tommy Joe

This is cruel and unusual punishment. I thought it would be hypocritical to splurge but I did have a twice baked potato and t bone steak.....5 days into my liquid diet and I'm craving split pea soup but it probably has too many carbs I'm doing ok though

Just read the mini bypass has a risk of bile reflux developing? Wondering if I should just go ahead and get the full r n y and be done with it? My mini is scheduled in Mexico for June 27, would switching cause major differences? I will talk to the folks there tomorrow. Just with all my reflux issues don't want to take a chance to get it after. What say you all?

Hi Seattle folks I'm in Auburn and surgery is scheduled for June 27 in Mexico. Getting nervous and excited at the same time. Would love to keep in touch with all of you

Thanks so much James I am having a mini bypass on June 27. Have been limiting food due to IBS for a couple weeks before the liquid pre op diet, down 13 pounds already . I will get some Imodium too thanks for your encouragement!

Today is day two of my liquid diet. I've been using low calorie juice, unjury and nectar and lots of water. My main issue is with "leakage" to put it as delicately as possible. Does this last throughout the liquid diet? I'm lactose intolerant so only mix with water at this point. Any tips from veterans would be most helpful. Do I need to wear Depends? God help me I'm gettin ready for the Home....

In one of my many previous diets whenever this happened we had a blast day where you basically shoved food at your stomach. It is like our stomachs get ticked off and shut down sort of like starve me will ya ya bastard I'm in my pre op liquid diet so don't know how this works with the bypass thing. I'm also a stupid American so don't know how many pounds your kilothingies are but I think for goodness sake Celebrate all you have lost! I can't ever remember bitc$$$ because I lost only 40 pounds lol

Ok almost at the end of day 1 liquid diet. It's tough but the puréed Campbell chicken noodle soup helped. I'm at 1000 cal and ok. I'm starting to get nervous about the surgery and thinking well if I can do this liquid diet why do I need the surgery? Could use some reminders!

Oh my I'm on day 1 and can attest to this!

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Lipstick Lady thank you for your post. I so identified with you I have been saying I can be a happy fat man. I'm the most popular teacher in my high school, love my students and have a ball teaching, have a beautiful brown skinned husband who loves every pound of me and why don't I just stay this way? Well I'm not in shape, I can barely walk around the block with the dogs, I'm often depressed and spend the whole weekend on the couch, I'm out of breath , have high blood pressure and am disgusted with how I look. Food rules my life and always has. Tomorrow I begin my two week liquid diet. Surgery with Bariatric Pal on June 27. I'm so proud of you and want to be like you! I wish you lived in Seattle! Thank you for your inspiration so much!

Hi Catlynk and RNYoYo Thanks so much for thinking of me ! I'm doing well , just lurching to the end of the school year, two more weeks . Had so many issues with my IBS lately that I've stopped eating just about everything. liquid diet starts in a few days. Hope everything goes well for you!

I had no idea I could order a new butt. Any other things we can order? Lol. Seriously, everyone posts and regrets I think, it's ok, we are human feel vulnerable or in my case are simply not used to standing up for myself rather than being a cheese stick roly poly rug everyone steps on

Don't say cake!!!!! Lol

VSGAnn2014 you are such an inspiration to me and I'm so glad you are here. My date gets closer and I'm more nervous, I guess because this is my first surgery that I have chosen, that I have elected to have, more used to having the doctor say I should do it and then it's their decision in my best interests. I do feel this one is too but I feel sort of like I'm out on my own, EXCEPT for this community. Were it not for Bariatric Pal I wouldn't be doing this that's for sure.

I'm both so excited and so scared about rerouting my insides so to speak. I'm not scared about where I'm going or anything like that but scared about making this huge change. My stomach in so many ways has ruled my life from lactose intolerance to acid reflux to IBS what I have chosen to put IN my mouth has had a dramatic effect on how I feel, look, participate and live. So here are my worries today, what if there are complications in the surgery? I know these are questions I will ask Dr Illan . But as the date looms closer I'm beginning to get queasy

Hi Tommy Joe: Who is your doctor? Mine is June 30th in Mexico with Dr. Ariel Ortiz. My Doctor is Dr Illan through Bariatric Pal Mexico

Is there anyone from Tacoma area still meeting?

I'm with Dr Illan with Bariatric Pal Mexico. I wish it was tomorrow

Mr. Bear, if a post bothers you move on. If you don't like the thread stop reading. Judging and shaming is unwelcome behavior here. I've found that rational people without a sense of humor usually don't like me and that's fine. Go off by yourself and be superior, or as my idol Joan Crawford said at a Pepsi Board meeting, "Don't try to f$$$ with us fella."

Nervous here too! But a wild bout of IBS last week and trip to ER in an ambulance shows me it's time to change. I need to lose weight and give up dairy, beef, and fried food and find a new outlet in life

I'm getting closer. June 27 at Bariatric Pal Mexico.

I have battled self hatred all my life. Fat, ugly stupid, sissy, fag, the tape rolls on and on in my head. I'm the only one who can push pause on the recorder, or stop. You have to do it over and over again. And in my case after years of therapy I still have that tape. I still have to consciously deliberately push pause or stop. You have to fight it and fight it. Rejoice in your weight loss and keep taking care of your body. Don't give up!

James thank you so much. I'm hoping the mini will do the same as well. Would love to hear from a mini bypass patient.

Along with GERD and Barrett's Esophagus, I have IBS. Wednesday while teaching I had a terrible attack that left me on the floor of my classroom and in an ambulance to the ER. I couldn't breathe, the stabbing pain was unbearable. I had eaten a cheeseburger for lunch and that set it off I guess , that and the minor stress of teaching . If I avoid fried food, meat, all dairy products, I feel ok. I'm so anxious for the mini bypass, because while I have every sane reason to avoid bad foods, I cave in to the hunger pains. Eating for me is a process that always ends up with a distended stomach, reflux, and terrible lethargy. It's been this way for years. I cannot wait to have the physical tool along with my psychological tool to once and for all end the terrorism of food in my life! I don't mean to demean the awful reality of terrorism but it really feels like food stalks me (in my head) and drives my whole life right now. That needs to end

Hi Kendall Less invasive surgery and not as complicated . That's my understand plus with my reflux issues better than the sleeve for me