SalOdyssey

I should be July at some point. Will hopefully nail down a date in the coming week or two.

We're not holding hands here. I don't sugar coat things. I am a straight shooter. Your statement as well as the Dr's original statement are both false. You will lose weight with water exercises, and a lot of it too. The key to any exercise regime is to mix it up by doing different exercises. Losing weight though is not just about the exercise only, it's about what's going in your mouth. To suggest you cannot lose substantial weight with water aerobics alone again is FALSE. Many others, along with myself have lost a generous amount of weight in a short window just with water exercises. Hell most of my pre-VSG weight loss has been done in the pool. You can believe what you want, that is your right, but you're wrong.

No, he is wrong. Swimming is THE BEST EXERCISE one person can do. I've had weeks with just swimming generally (not laps) where I've lost 6-10 pounds combined with low carb eating.

I told everyone and even started a public Facebook page about my journey. The support and encouragement has been amazing.

When I started my weight loss odyssey, I was doing so blind so to speak. The surgeons office I was seeing at the time, the scale didn't go past 550. So I was looking around and came across the site below. I purchased their XL-700 scale and have been using it since to get my weekly weigh in results. It's a great scale and has been a great help to me. I was able to see my weekly losses and gain a confidence boost each week seeing the weight go down. So if you're in the market for a scale this is a good company to look at. They have quite the variety of bariatric scales, and they're affordable. http://www.oldwillknottscales.com/obesity-bariatric-scales.html **I am NOT affiliated with the website.**

Thank you!! Check the thing at the bottom of my post. That's the ticker.

First off your Dr is a moron!! My Dr's have applauded my daily efforts to get in the pool and get moving. I'm a pre-surgery, I've lost almost 240 pounds by swimming, using dumbbells, a medicine ball, and a resistance band. Your Dr sound very uneducated when it comes to exercise. Do whatever exercise you can do today, and try and increase it as your body and pain allows you to. Build of whatever progress you make. Start with small goals like walking to the mailbox and every couple of days or weeks go a little further. Swim for 1/2 hour, the after a few days go 40 minutes, few days or weeks later try for an hour. Obviously the more you exercise the more it will assist in your weight loss. Whatever you do, just keep going!!

Thank you @@kmorri! Exactly too narrow were other scales. Even at my heaviest I was able to stand normally on top of it. Glad I am not the only one who feels it is a worthy scale @sgc.

Sorry to hear that! What happened? At a secondary office which gathers all the pre-testing paperwork and results, someone forgot to review the notes to my sleep study, and because of (those results) the surgeon requires 4 weeks on a CPAP machine, which I am NOT happy about. But, we're going to do 2 week with the machine, and then 2 weeks with the machine, during the pre-op diet, so 4 week simultaneously. But first I need to have a CPAP fitted. Hopefully the sleep center calls me Monday to set that up. Not pleased someone dropped the ball, but surgeon is firm on the requirement. Really sorry that happened to you! But you'll get there. The hoops we have to jump through in order to have this surgery is unbelievable! Hang in there! It is, but I will not be deterred For everyone on deck this week, best of luck to you all!! The losers bench (and I mean that in a polite way) is waiting for you!!

Sorry to hear that! What happened? At a secondary office which gathers all the pre-testing paperwork and results, someone forgot to review the notes to my sleep study, and because of (those results) the surgeon requires 4 weeks on a CPAP machine, which I am NOT happy about. But, we're going to do 2 week with the machine, and then 2 weeks with the machine, during the pre-op diet, so 4 week simultaneously. But first I need to have a CPAP fitted. Hopefully the sleep center calls me Monday to set that up. Not pleased someone dropped the ball, but surgeon is firm on the requirement.

Good luck to you all!! My journeys been delayed for several weeks, so I am looking more like a July Sleever now.

100% certainty I've never seen anyones here include soda of any kind. Best bet to always check with your surgical team.

What brand? A lot of them do suck! Frankly I think the surgeons should give us perimeters to stay within nutrition wise with the shakes, and let us pick the brand we like. I used Chike Protein on my first attempt, and to me they kind of sucked compared to Pure Protein that I normally used prior to the pre-op diet. Good luck!!

The Jello and the pudding are sugar free, but that's fine with me. I only get to pick 2 items from the list though per day. Which is still nice because at least there is some variation instead of just shakes all the time.

It's OK to feel nervous. You got this!!

I'm from L.I. living in Tampa. I have a FB page listed below if you'd like to Like. Surgery for me is penciled in for 5/31 so long as there are no hiccups.

Mine have started with a questionnaire sheet, followed by a diet history, and successes with those diets, and then a bunch of questions about your overall well being. You can expect to see questions if you've binged, throw up purposefully after eating, questions about guilt of eating, depriving yourself of food or Water to lose weight. Gauging your mood questions to see if you eat because of depression or anxiety as a coping mechanism. Every psych Dr uses a different format, but these were some of the things I saw on mine.

I get either Jello, pudding, cream of wheat/oatmeal, yogurt, 1 cup veggies, in addition to my Protein shakes on my pre-op. Surgeons office says I can add unflavored Protein powder to the jello and pudding too.

Too many variables to answer this. But as @@2goldengirl said above get the criteria from your insurance plan. Dr's will run whatever pre-surgical tests they feel they need, sleep study, stress test, lab work, X-rays, etc, to make sure you're a safe candidate for surgery. Best of luck to you @@gina171!

Congrats Everyone!!! Those of you still in a holding pattern like me, Best of luck!!

I have a FB page about my journey. Just search for my signature below. I am tentatively schedule for 5/31.

If email doesn't work, go to the office. Kinda hard to ignore or forget you then.

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Congrats & best of luck!!

They say Biotin supplement is supposed to help.