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Anna Nim

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  1. Anna Nim
    Cake, Bread, Pasta, Rice, Soft Candy, Ice Cream all literally slide down easily. They also are so liquid or compressible that they also don't 'fill' you up long, leaving you wanting more and Sugar is addicting, MSG is addicting..you can't even go get gas without going thru the Gauntlet of High Processed food. It is almost an unwinnable battle, then get your brain involved..it is an addicted little bitch (everyone, not just overweight people). Never met a person who got obese on lean meats and veggies.
  2. Anna Nim

    Salt it up!

    Anna Nim replied to KeepCalm's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

    You know, I was with someone who *supposedly* was sensitive to salt (a covert, lying, narcissist..but that is a different story:) . So, I started cooking with a lot more garlic and onion powder (and cumin, chill powder,etc). To me; garlic and to a lesser extent, onion powder takes the place of salt-garlic has that tang. It took a long time to switch by taste buds, but even this long after that, I still do not dump salt on like I used to by any means.
  3. Anna Nim

    Stay on Target! Stay on that pre-op~

  4. Anna Nim

    Liquids - feel like crap

    Anna Nim replied to lisaBme's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A

    My Dr. has two weeks of low carb (less than 30 grams a day), and while I am not perfect at it, I have lost 6 pounds in 10 days. Then it is one day of Clear Liquids before surgery. I am also cutting caffeine. I have tapered off and made it thru the worst of the days, but I am sure missing it-but not missing the 'addiction' of it. Sleeve set for the 14th!
  5. Anna Nim

    Salt it up!

    Anna Nim replied to KeepCalm's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

    I bet because you are eating more healthy and not getting the salt in your food and natural foods are less salty.
  6. Anna Nim
    You guys are all so great Funny, I had severe iron deficiency anemia, a vit D deficiency and a B12 deficiency BEFORE WLS. I just had my 6 month appt and my labs are all stellar. It's like I revamped my diet and started eating for fuel instead of fun... I had great health the first 4 or 5 yrs I'm only in my 30s now and body is acting like 50s or 60 s with muscles tendons bones, all that stuff because of not getting natural nutrition from real food. Sent from my SM-G935P using the BariatricPal App What are you able to do about that? Is the RYN that is the issue, if you had done Sleeve would it be less? I DO worry about that, although I think I can get around it. Maybe even juicing with a nurtabullet veggies?
  7. Anna Nim
    He did pay, but I think he did not expect to, he figured I would take him up on his other offers of a trainer and diet help (nowww you offer?). I did tell him I was thinking of going to Mexico, so he figured that a "chop shop" (his words, not mine), would be my next step, although I admit it would be in the summer.. Thank you for your response!
  8. Anna Nim
    So, what are your side effects?
  9. Anna Nim
    Funny thing, is he is a retired mechanical engineer!
  10. Anna Nim
    Come on man, he is a 72 year old man who lives alone in fear and pain, we will all get there. He is over fretting, but he is my father-that is his job. I have issue with his math and of course I am nervous. There ARE real risks. As for my backbone, I can assure you, I most certainly have one. You have no idea.
  11. Anna Nim
    Trying not to fret. I start the two week diet tomorrow (low-carb, then right before liquids). I am 46 with a BMI of 41, no other health conditions other than arthritis in my knees. I've had surgery before for my knee twice and a shattered finger with no issues; other than nausea once. My Dad had bad RK eye surgery years ago and literally can not drive at night-which has wrecked his social life. He says, what if you end up with something horribly wrong... He keeps quoting a false 7% risk of long-term serious effects. I get he is worried, I had to hear him talk a lot about his fears for knee replacement surgery and him thinking he was having a stroke when he was just dizzy from pain meds.. He is offering to give me 4K towards diet, physical trainers, etc..and then after a year, if it doesn't work, then give me 4K towards surgery. Sounds good? But, I am not interested in waiting longer. Not. One. Bit. But it is flipping me out and I am nervous enough. I KNOW the odds are in my favor, but of course..not a guarantee. We all want the guarantee. That is what we tell ourselves:The odd are ever in our favor (see what I did there). I worry about GERD, Gallbladder disease, Dehydration, etc. I have a 15 year old son. I postponed this surgery 5 1/2 years ago for different reasons, but partially fearful if something happened because my son was so young then-but I know that 15 is young too. Since then lost weight and then gained weight and kept it on. I don't even want to lose weight anymore for appearances, but just to slow down the rate of decay Anyway... that is it in a nutshell. Thanks for listening.
  12. Anna Nim
    I have Aetna TRS, my BMI is a 41. That is morbid obese, they will cover. I did 4 Nut vists, a psy eval (the guy gave me bubble sheets to fill out, after a short convo) and a EKG. I got a doctor that I had JUST met to write me a letter. It had to have my 'history'. Smart me, brought a letter for the Dr. that literally copied what Aetna said it had to have, plus my history. That way when she walked out of the room, she would remember what I talked to her about. I also brought my healthy blood work (from the summer OBGYN, whom I also had just met) and my knee xrays, so she was coming of a place of information. I told her that she could just write "Patient reports...." My Baratric Doctor said the letter was great. They submitted and said that the surgery as end of Nov and I got approval in like a week-maybe less! My surgery is the 14th of Dec and I am doing the pre-op.
  13. Anna Nim
    Hard for others to understand how a traumatic event (death of your beloved and in my case an narcissistic relationship that took all from me) just BREAKS you and yes, it can take years..sometimes forever to recover. The shattering is real. That is what instantly got my attention. The withdraw from others is real. My surgery in in 11 days. Besides health, hope that it marks the new phase in my life. You look great and keep up Your Life
  14. Anna Nim

    Diet Fail: Did good on day two of my carb diet..until I fell asleep. I woke up about a hour later, thristy and confused. Drank glass of lemonade juice and ate a fajita taco..then "woke" up and thought. Crap!! I was SO out of it, then I ate some other crap I should not have (chocolate milk! and corn chips). Jesus..Get it together. Today is day three of my attempt. I WILL drink more water today, as that was likely was triggered it. I had fallen asleep with a nice cup of tea by my hand..had.

    1. Fredbear

      Fredbear

      You need to get that crap out of your house!

    2. Anna Nim

      Anna Nim

      @Fredbear I have a teenager, although I am thinking that he can do plain/crystal light water for awhile. The chips came with the Angus steak tacos from across the street, we don't have chip/cookie bags in the house. I will say, yesterday, was MUCH better. I went into work. I DID eat some more of those stupid chips in the morning, so carb count was off, but, nothing else bad for the whole day! That is important, as the evenings are when I fail, so I am now 24 hours without excessive carbs. 10 days left of pre-surgery. Hope it is enough to count. Yesterday I had jerky, hamburger (no bun, no catsup)..then later some Fajita meat and pecans, Sugar free jello and tea...I made a pot of boiled eggs and will do some other prep today. I am also cutting my caffeine, which is HORRIBLE. Kill me slowly or kill me cold turkey-not sure which is worse :)

  15. Anna Nim

    Hard to stay on the pre-op diet. Two days and I crashed. Day one, dinner invite turned out to be pizza. Last night, ate beans, rice, tortilla..need to low-carb it for now less than 14 days. If I can't do this..how the fk is this going to work!!!

    1. suzzzzz

      suzzzzz

      You have to decide to stay on pre op diet. Same thing once you have surgery. You decide to stay on plan or not. This is a mental journey as much as or more than physical journey. Make a decision. What is more important to you?

    2. Meontheinside

      Meontheinside

      Put you first. Shrinking your liver makes surgery easier. You don't have to be perfect.

    3. Anna Nim

      Anna Nim

      I am home, been good all day. Veggies/Cheese/Atkins shake..now home. Ate sugar free jello, beef jerky and some dried apples. The dried apples might just get me-so no more of those!

  16. Anna Nim
    My Dad is flipping out on me. Worried about me dying from surgery or having a long-term complication, which I know is unlikely, but still a possibility. He is also giving me grief. He had originally said he would loan me the money, but I had to diet/exercise for three months (but actually 6 because of when my break it) like I was a post-baratric patient...which of course I did not do. I tried, sorta, not really..I did have knee surgery, which blew me out and my job has been awful..no really awful. But I COULD have gotten on low-carb and walked. So, it makes me worried that I will fail at the Sleeve afterwards. I tell myself that; well, if I we all could do that then none of us would need the surgery, but I also know I have been a bit lazy towards even trying.
  17. Anna Nim

    Don't bail out on me know family

    Anna Nim replied to Anna Nim's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

    Austin.
  18. Anna Nim
    Kinda aggro. My Dad is SUPPOSED to be loaning me the 8-10K that my insurance does not cover (yes, I know it is VERY close to self pay..). I told him that I was approved and I had my date (Dec 14th) and he kinda ignored me. I am visiting him in Virginia. He is a body worker and was working on my 'skinny' shins and said, "You know you are not that big that you need to have surgery." and "I am worried that they are going to mess you up.". Now...I get the worry part, I really do. I bailed out of his surgery-when it was paid for 6 years ago for my worries! But, IMHO my Dad is part of the reason I am overweight. He used to criticize my body so much as a kid/teen (when I was normal weight) and all the other women around us, that it damaged my body image (I was 5 11 and 160-170 in high school), and intentionally didn't pay full child support in an attempt to flush my mom out and have us live with him. I know there was a point when we were not getting correct Vitamins and nutrients as kids with her, kids. I think that leads to overeating in an attempt to get what you need. I still have anxiety when I see a empty fridge. But, enough about my childhood... Point is, I told my Dad that I have been obese for 16 years, I weight 288, 41 BMI, arthritis both my knees and ACL surgery on one, meaning knee replacement surgery is a probability in the future. I am 46 years old and "dieting" myself higher and higher.. In spring he ordered me boxes of supplements to lose weight. He is of the "keep trying" and "all you have to do..." camp. That is nice, but at what point to you admit that this is not working? At some point continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results is foolish. He started telling me about the "majority of people who regain"..yada, yada. I am afraid he isn't going to loan me the money. I am mad at myself for not doing it before. I am very mad for having credit so messed up that at 46 I have to borrow from my father (even though he is always helping my brother..). I don't want him to bail and I of course, want it to work.. *now*
  19. Anna Nim

    Don't bail out on me know family

    Anna Nim replied to Anna Nim's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

    I guess what annoys me, is he spent DECADES trashing my size. When I was this height and younger, he would even tell people about his "Big" daughter...and nowwwwww I am not too big for surgery?? I contacted my surgeon to get the exact amount due by Dec 2 and they gave me a different amount. See, I have to pay 5k out of pocket and 20%. I wanted to know the exact 20% and to whom to pay the 5k. The guy was confused, I said, get back to me and I need it in writing...that way I can say, "Ok Dad, here we are...". I will contact them again on Monday (I will be back in Texas at that time.) I have asked for help before, but not much. Mainly, when I was getting a divorce and my ex took all funds and I was having to fight a custody battle with no funds (He did kindly give me 5K for that fun time).
  20. Anna Nim
    My date is Dec 14th, which is the exact date I wanted, I even have photographic proof of my handsome doctor I am a teacher. That gives 19 days off of work. I have to miss the last three days before Winter Break, which is fine by me. He did say that I could go home that day, like outpatient. Which seems REALLY weird. I will think about that some more. I would prefer my bed, but I worry about going home after something so major. We. Will. See. Now to find out the final total I owe (I have to pay $5k Out of Pocket PLUS my deductible) and other stuff. Sucks Big Time. Months ago I asked my Dad for a loan and now it is time to put up. He wanted me to try to diet and exercise, tried to make it conditional..which is his FAVORITE thing to do. I of course did little of that.. I am certain that I am pretty much paying for the whole thing myself..but that is okay, as long as I do no not wake up dead! The countdown begins and yes I am now very nervous!
  21. Anna Nim
    No bus!! No Uber!! No taxi! There HAS to be ONE person in your life whom you trust to give you a damn ride!!!! A co-worker, a neighbor..someone.
  22. Anna Nim

    Got my date! AND the date I wanted! And my Dr is super cute :) Like, can we kiss first.

    1. krr343

      krr343

      Congracts. I had to check your profile to see where you were from because I also have a very cute surgeon. Not the same guy though lol

    2. Travelher

      Travelher

      Ok you can't drop that and not tell us his name so we can creep him on google and see for ourselves :)

    3. Anna Nim

      Anna Nim

      Dr. Acheson from Southwest Bariatrics here in Austin. He has EYE contact and easy going manner, soft Texas accent and YES, I would love to do all the fun things :) His site says: Dr. Acheson received his medical degree from Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans. Dr. Acheson’s surgical training was obtained at Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, TX, where he also completed a Trauma Research Fellowship. During his 11 years of active military service in the United States Army, he spent three deployments as a trauma and general surgeon in multiple regions of Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a member of the Texas Medical Association.

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  23. Anna Nim

    Tomorrow go for pre-surgery appointment & blood work. Was supposed to have blood work first, oops. :)

  24. Anna Nim

    Got approved!!!

    1. ProudGrammy

      ProudGrammy

      your new life is about to begin - good luck - happy days are here again - kathy

    2. laceemouse

      laceemouse

      Yay!

    3. Anna Nim

      Anna Nim

      I hope so. The weight and my job is exhausting me. A cycle that needs to stop.

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  25. Anna Nim

    Dr office has submitted. Now I wait..hope for approval and a date before December.

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