MamaAsh

Happy late momies day everyone! Tina, nice to see you back and congrats on the fill. Heather, have fun with your new house :biggrin: So happy for you. Lee, you are almost in the 100's whooo hoo!!! Ali, congrats on the weight loss Jes, nice to see you back and love the pic!!! Mo, how you doing? Chrissy- Text me later :tt2: Two weeks till my surgery. Today I am getting an ultrasound of my gallblader to see if it is the cause of my acid reflux... So I have to starv untill 3:30 when my apt is.... I'm still below goal, 223.5 lbs. Kinda scared but Chrissy has been keeping me calm :coolB:

Yeah Ali! I'm glad you are home doing good! Thanks everyone for the congrads. Niccolie, good luck & drive safe :thumbup:

I got a date :thumbup: May 25th and my pre-op is May 14th :smile: and I was 222 this am, -3 under goal!

Hey checking in for today :scared2:

Ughhhh! I am so frustrated right now. I am #14 on the waiting list for a surgery date and may not get to the front of the line until the beginning of July.....They are booked all of May, and the max # of patients they take each month is 12. I am on the cancellation list but there are a ton of people a head of me on that too. I am already having a heard time maintaining my current weight loss, and I wanted to have surgery before it gets too hot this summer I'm starting to think that with all these hurdles I keep going through with insurance issues, GERD and so forth that it is a sign that I should not do the surgery lol, although I know that I am and have been having a hard time loosing weight as it is and I don't want to be this heavy anymore It's so sad

I will be there with Mo and I have some cloths too!

Tam Tam- I know you can do it!!! Nicolie- We are gona miss you!!!! Congrats on the new job and new cloths lol! I love date nights can't seem to get enough lately so have some extra fun for me too!! Chrissy - Congrats!!!! John- Awww we will miss you on Saturaday! I am so nervus about eating out after my sleeve too, let us know how it goes. Analynn - Let us know when your surgery date is. Mo- Call me and let me know what the plans are for Sat! I was 223 this AM and hopefully it will stay that way as I was bad today lol! I have been fighting a cold too so I just want to feel better right now :thumbup: I have waited almost a week for my case mgr to call with a surgery date, so I am going to call in the AM to make thme give me one lol!

Wow we are so slow on here lately that our thread is falling to the bottom of the page when you first log in :ohmy: I guess you can consider this a thread bump lol! Hope everyone is doing good!

Thanks Chrissy I almost positive that I'm going to go through with the sleeve. i have been researching all night and it seems as though it's a 50/50 consensus on weather the sleeve agitates the pre-existing GERD. The funny thing is last night I had a small episode!

Thank you everyone for your replies. Since the Dr. told me this I have been researching like a mad women lol! She is leaving the choice up to me. I am very much opposed to RNY. So at this point it's Sleeve or bust lol! I know that she said the case mgr. would call me for my surgery and class apt. with in a couple of days, and that she has already approved me for surgery. So I will be thinking about this up until the day of surgery for sure! I woke up this morning and I was 223.5! I need to update my ticker. That was 4.5 lbs since Friday!!!! I can't wait till we have our meeting on the 24th!!! I have lots of cloths to give :thumbup:

Dr. Chu called me this afternoon to go over my barium swallow. She said that they did not see a hernia and that my anatomy mapped out well. But then she did say that they detected that I have moderate to sever Acid Reflux Disease. Weird as I haven't really experienced much more then occasional heartburn late at night. She did tell me that with this latest tid bit of information that she would prefer me to have gastric bypass, as she said that the sleeve (and the band) could make it worse, but I reminded her that with bypass I can not take my NSAID (sp?) like Advil or Alieve for pain because I am allergic to acetaminophen.... Then she asked me if my symptoms have gotten better as I lost weight and I told her if by symptoms she meant my occasional heart burn then yes, as I haven't had any in so long that I don't remember the last time. So I asked her what would I do if I started getting symptoms after the sleeve or if it was bad, as she said they would go back in and do a bypass (basically the DS).... Thats a lot to think about :thumbup: John / Lee, did either of you have acid reflux before your sleeves?

I weighed in @ Kaiser today...... 224.1 Whooo Hooo below my goal!!!!!

Glad to hear from you Candra! John- please elaborate on how the Metamucil helps with weight loss for someone like me who has never had it? Also today I have only had 1,076 calories!

Hi Lydia! I'm with Fremont Kaiser. The looked at my weight history @ the surgeons apt. as well as my weight on the day of orientation. I got my orientation date 3 weeks after my referral. Then it's all up to you to lose the 10% ASAP lol! I know that Fremont Kaiser is 1 month out on scheduling surgeries once you reach goal.

Hi everyone! I took the family to do picture today so I thought I would share them with those of you who are not on my facebook (yet!) lol!

I did my barium swallow today.... All I can say is YUCK!!!!!!! and I am still 1 lb. up :biggrin: I'm sure it is the monthly visitor...

Thanks everyone! I just got off the treadmill-walked for 2 miles. I am drinking as much as I can. I have to do the Barium Swallow before surgery to see if I have a hernia. The Dr. suspects that I may have one as a result of my first pregnancy. Weird though. I think that I would rather know before hand too. Lee- I remember you saying that they repaired one for you. Thats good that they are able to fix it at the same time huh!

P.S. It is so adjitating since I was goal on last Friday :smile2:

Hi everyone! I have my apt. for my barium swallow @ 10:55 in Walnut Creek to see if I have a hernia. No eating past midnight, which wont be a problem since I'm in bed before then and not much of a breakfast person. But I was hoping to weigh in @ goal in the AM. All week I have been fighting this 1-2 lbs from my time of the month crap. Any advise?

Mo-don't worry about it hun! Call me if you need to talk or want to get out. Heck me n you could do my Wii fit while our kids play together lol! Rachelle- I'm with Fremont Kaiser and they love the protein shakes like no tomorrow!

It's between 3-9 pm and we are going to be there around 6 pm. If you go tell them you are there to support Oakley Pre-school. Let me know too cause I'm dragging the whole fam-bam :thumbup:

Aww I wish I could go too, but my son's pre-k is doing a fund raiser @ Chuck E Cheeses & although I hate the place, my son schooling is free and they need all the support that they can get.

John- Congrats on the weight loss! Mo-I saw that is was raining and I figured that we would have to skip our walk. I will call you latter :thumbup: Rachelle- Nice to meet you! Ali- Congrats on the date! Tam- I got my fingers crossed you will get a fill! Jes- A friend of mine got me into green smothies a while back. It is the only way my boys will eat anything green. The way I did them made me last 3-4 hrs without hunger but with a fast decline right after. Pam- Glad you are back safe! I have my TOM right now so I am up 1-2 lbs :thumbdown: I have an apt in WC Kaiser on Friday and I want to weigh in then at goal so I'm doing everything I can right now. Wish me luck. Also when is our next get together to send of Nicolie? I need the details :thumbup:

I'm at goal this AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (of course this was naked before breakfast on my scale this AM) and I got my referral for my barium swallow, so I need to call and make an apt. Hopefully I will be down -2 lbs below goal @ that apt. for documentation. Heres to being 225LBS!!!!!

Mo- Get better soon Girl! I need my partner in crime :thumbup: I walked as much of the Big Break trail in Oakley that my kids would allow me to and it was nice. I want you to do it with me as soon as you feel better