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My team didn’t have any limits on carbs or anything that early out. I strained cream of chicken soup after diluting it with milk or water and that was okay but you can buy prepared soups anywhere and strain any “chunks” out of them.

Welcome and congratulations on your surgery date. Just remember during clear liquids that it’s a means to an end and Keep your eye on the prize. You’ve got this.

Yep this diet was the hardest part of the process for me and I was even allowed some food. Just have to keep reminding yourself to keep your eye on the prize And take it one day at a time.

I would ask the anesthesiologist about that. They may just need to know beforehand but it could also be a no no.

I only told my husband and best friend. Since I lost some weight I have told my mom and a couple others but for people I don’t feel that close to I just answer questions about weight loss with the diet and exercise response which is mostly true.

So glad to hear you are doing well.

It varies so drastically from surgeon to surgeon and even patient to patient. Some people are on all liquid while others are on a low carb and low sugar type diet only or a combination of the two. One thing you most likely will need is protein shakes no matter what but even those some doctors have requirements on brands. I know your excited and want to do something to get a step closer to your surgery (I was too) but it would be best to just wait until your appointment.

There is also a revision forum where you may find more people who actually have experience with band to sleeve if you post your question there.

Most insurance companies require a bmi of 40 or 35 with comorbidities for first time surgery but if you have a medical reason for needing a revision BMI can be less.

Not quite sure I follow your logic but we can agree that this thread has gotten out of hand. I’m not certain the OP cares about vaping anyways.

Your praising the fact that something is peer reviewed in one breath and saying you think the medical community are wrong in the second breath.

To be honest after quickly skimming two articles my takeaway was that there are differences in regulations between the two countries. Therefore vaping here vs vaping there is different. So the results of the research is different. Because we are not vaping the same thing.

Possibly, but I think in a pinch I’m going to take medical advice from the one with the medical degree.

So a quick skim says they are regulated differently In the UK. That’s probably the source of the discrepancy.

Well I agree it is helpful In quitting smoking because I am an example of that but in all fairness my dr told me that vaping may actually be worse than smoking and it was not a good idea.

Here is the full article. https://www.medicinenet.com/e-cigarettes_vs_cigarettes/article.htm

i just found this in a quick google search. It is not known how safe or how unsafe these products are. September of 2019 saw a rash of nearly 500 cases of respiratory illness linked to vaping throughout the US, according to the CDC, which reports symptoms to include cough, chest pain, nausea, shortness of breath, vomiting or diarrhea. As of September, six had died of "vaping lung disease." The exact component of vape fluid had not been identified as of that time, but illness seems to affect users of both nicotine and cannabis e-cigarettes. “While this investigation is ongoing, consider not using e-cigarette products,” the CDC advised as of Sept. 6. They further state, regardless of the ongoing investigation, youth, young adults and women who are pregnant should not use e-cigarette products

You are doing awesome. Good for you.

I ordered a memorial plaque for my dad and placed it at the base of our flagpole. It just gives me a place that I can go to think about him without having to go to the cemetery. The cemetery always makes me sad but somehow this memorial of him allows me to just think of happy memories.

Yay. NSV!!

Many insurance companies require monthly weigh ins and a so called physician monitored weight loss attempt which are typically for six months. Are you sure it’s really six months until they have a surgery date and it’s not they are scheduling six months out because of the insurance requirements? If it’s definitely just waiting on the surgeon I would take liveaboard’s suggestion of calling around to other reputable surgeons in my area to see if they have shorter wait times.

I was told I would stay two nights but was allowed to go home after one. I was up and walking in recovery and on nothing but Tylenol because I had very little pain. I was glad to be there with the bed rails though because Of the epidural like nerve block they give you in your stomach. I felt as if I had done 1000 sit ups and had to pull myself up using the bed rails until that wore off. Also, even if you tolorate water well immediately as i did I would worry that without the iv it would be hard to get properly hydrated after all that and dehydration leads to nausea which I don’t do well with. I have a high pain threshold but I’m a baby when it comes to nausea so it was worth spending the night just to prevent that from happening.

Possibly. I was able to use another doctors notes to satisfy one month of mine. It depends on how well they documented what you were trying and whether they documented your weight, etc.

It’s a big decision and it takes however long it takes (don’t rush it). That being said now that I have done it my only regret is not doing it sooner. Perhaps if you search a little bit on other sites about the complications of the comorbidities that you are up against if you don’t do anything and the medical interventions and possibly even surgeries that you may need down the road if you don’t have WLS you will realize that the risks of not doing surgery are worse than the risks that come with this surgery. I know for me I realized it was time to have the surgery when already at a BMI of 33 I had knee pain that kept me from exercising and without that activity I gained back all the weight I had just lost from doing my treadmill at home all through the first year of COVID. I could just forsee it snowballing to get worse and worse because my gynocologist gave me my weight history and I had gained steadily (outside of the yo yo dieting) over the last ten years at least (they could only go back that far). There is also a thread on here called weirdest non scale victories that I always recommend to anyone who is on the fence about surgery. It’s just a reminder of all the little things outside of the more obvious medical issues that change in your life when you lose the weight and there are many many little things that are not scale related. The last thing I will add is that for many of us our insurance requires six months of supervised diet before they submit for approval so starting the process while you are still thinking about it couldn’t hurt. You can always put it off if you are still on the fence after the six months but my guess is you will probably have made up your mind by then.

I would only tell people if you think they will be supportive. Otherwise you don’t need them to be involved in this part of your life. You can choose when and if you want to ever tell them after you lose the weight.