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Starting pre-op diet and surgery prep next Monday!
MamaTo3inNH posted a topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
I've got one week of food freedom, going to have a few food funerals and generally enjoy my last week of being fat. Isn't that an oxymoron? Anyway. Pre op diet starts Monday. And with that comes TONS of housework to a - get my house super clean and organized before I go out of commission and b - take my mind off my growling belly Any tips for getting the house (and three kids and hubby!!) ready to fend for themselves for 4-5 days? I'm freaking out... Hubby isn't really up to the task so I want to make things as easy as possible. All laundry will be caught up, I will have the younger two outfits put together for a week's time. Aside from clothing, I can't figure out what else I can do? He doesn't cook, I am going to make a pot of chop suey and make sure we have Mac n cheese cups and plenty of bread and Nutella and fruit cups for the girls... Any other helpful hints from mamas out there? -
I can not stand to wait till May for my surgery. I know its just another week at the most 2, but i am like another week seems like a life time. So after alot of research where i found out most times Carewise approves with in 3-5 days after your 6 mos. I have decided to arrange my work schedual so that if i get approved first of April i could have surgery April 25th. I am sooo excited and i hope i have not jumped ahead of myself. I just kept thinking if i find out i am approved the first of april then have to wait till May due to my schedual i am going to be so upset with myself. So everyone cross your fingers and hope that i am not going to be disappointed. Deb
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Hello Everyone- I just found this site yesterday, and it so fun and informative. Still trying to learn how to navigate it. I went for my follow up Dr. Visit today lost 10-lbs. That was shocking, but I am still on the liquid stage or should I say THE HARDEST PART STAGE (for me). They said I can start having creamier substances (soup) just looking for something different. Any, suggestions?? I am still pretty sore around my port, and still pretty gassy not sure how to relief that besides walking around and Gas-X it can really be painful. Need all the help and suggestions that you can give me. Thanks So Much for your time God Bless You All Teresa
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Hi I am 4 weeks post op and am able to eat as much as I want although I am trying to be careful. My first fill is in 3 weeks, and I am wondering what I will be feeling like after the fill. I know some experience restriction after first fill, but some dont. Was wondering what different peoples experiences were with their first fill.
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Cpap Machine...oh Joy...:(
luckyme2g replied to SandeeD's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I have had my Cpap for a couple of weeks now. I'm getting used to it, but I am not sure how much it helps. Sounds like you got a good deal, mine was close to $700 out of pocket, with insurance! -
My fill took three weeks to kick in. Now it feels like it's dissapearing already. I only had good restriction for about a week. I go back in one week for my second fill and I can't wait!!!
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Weight loss stall
SmilingEyes replied to krystalt313's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
yes.. i stalled at three weeks also. I was stalled for one month. It is frustrating, i know but hang in there it will start coming off again. Good luck! -
Everyone has the same fears, but the odds are hugely in your favor. If you have never had anesthesia, it is an interesting experience, almost like magic. Stop worrying about not solving this problem on your own, almost no one does. These concerns will all fade away in your happiness and new success post-surgery. I was banded six weeks ago. I have lost 28 pounds and I feel great and so excited that the future will look the way I have imagined it for so long.
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Hit A Wall And Not Losing...advice?
honk replied to spoiltmom's topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I would say to drop down perhaps to 1000 calories and up the execise to at least 5 days a week. -
What feelings did you have right before surgery? I know this is what I want to do but I just feel blah about it lately. My surgery is in 2 weeks and has been scheduled since March.
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I never had a cpap but there are quite a few nights where my sleep is totally not there. I get up at 4:30a.m. for work, I workout a hour before work on my treadmill or eliptical etc., when I get home after work I walk my dogs for a hour so I am getting enough exercise to sleep for a week straight - LOL. When I finally sit down around 7 -8 pm. I fall asleep for about a hour or two and that messes me up once I wake then it is very difficult to get back to sleep. I am usually up from about 1:30 to 3:30 most nights. Do you exercise at all? I know when I was doing yoga I would sleep like a baby every night. I think I am going to start the yoga again on Wii. It sounds like the cpap is making you uncomforatable !!!
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curious with kids
Momto3redheads replied to angieboyd's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
I drank a lot of cafeine free diet coke on my pre op diet to keep me sane. I have three girls, too - but luckily for me during the week they get most of their meals at the sitters...so that saved me. But after the first few days I found I wasn't hungry anymore - so then it was easier to keep to it...that and my fear of having a fatty liver and the doc getting in there and having to back out and reschedule kept me on the straight and narrow! LOL It's hard as now my girls comment on how "skinny" I am and that they want to be like me when they grow up...I try and focus on being "healthy" and not being "skinny" - as they are 20 mos, 6 and 8 yrs old and very impressionable. I am big boned and tall and I explain to them that when you are tall and muscular you will weigh more - they aren't ever going to be stick thin as they are built like me. (though I was a lot chunkier as a child as I was not as active) I don't want to send my kids the wrong message and have them worrying about their weight in grade school! (though the 6 yr old had a rotten girl call her fat on the playground...I am telling you kids are just horrid to one another!) Anyway...you will make it through - keep your eyes on the prize! Kim -
Good for you...I have a long leather coat I keep trying on and it is a large...I did up the buttons this past week..Still a little snug...But I can do up the buttons.....Take that !!!!!!!!!!!hehehehehe
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Just an gastric bypass revision
mrich612 posted a topic in Revision Weight Loss Surgery Forums (NEW!)
I had my original rny in 2005 went from 322 to 180 started to gain some weight back total 45 pounds when in for revision consult at the end of August had to have a endoscopy in mid September and was approved for revision two weeks later My surgery was last Thursday went pretty well just very sore but getting around very well my only real issue is not beening able to sleep longer than two hours at a time not very hungrey had broth the last two days and down 14 pounds already which is really worrying me kind of a lot of weight in 4 days but will be seeing my doctor Thursday have to really force myself to eat broth and Water since my pouch is only one ounce praying all goes well this time around. Sent from my SM-G935P using the BariatricPal App -
Hi everyone, I am so glad I found this site. My name is Dona Cross. I am a married mother of three. My kids are 21, 19 and soon to be 18. Two oldest are sons, youngest a daughter. I am 48 years old and morbidly obese. Morbidly obese sounds horrifying....I thought I was just fat! Anyway, I have been preparing for lap band since January 2008. In September of 2007 I found out that I have diabetes. This didn't come as a surprise to me...my brother and 6 first cousins are diabetic, my grandmother was also. My sons weighed 10lb. 3oz. and 10 lb. 11 oz. at birth. We thought my daughter was tiny; she weighed 8 lbs. 14 oz.! After the diagnosis of diabetes I got serious about my health. I don't want to be one of those old ladies in the nursing home weighing 270 lbs. with no legs having to have overworked and underpaid CNA's taking care of me. So, I went to a lap band seminar, got my doctor's wholehearted approval and started meeting requirements for surgery. I have documented diet and exercise requirements almost done and received a O.K. from my insurance to have the psych. eval. After that, my bariatric clinician will set up my pre-op requirements. I am so excited about this. I have tried not to have unrealistic expectations, but I am looking forward to good health again. I am so happy to have contact with others who are experiencing the same journey. Some of my friends are not as supportive as I would have hoped they would be. They think I should just go to Weight Watchers and the gym and I will be fine. Don't they think I've tried that? I do however have a supportive family and an amazing church family to help me. Anyway, thanks in advance for your support. I'm looking forward to making new friends.
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You look amazing. I can't wait to get to that point. My surgery is next week, July 10th.
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That's a relief to hear you kept yogurt down and it's less than one week after surgery! My nutritionist (and all the surgical group's literature too) talked about greek yogurt alot - she recommend chobani plain or vanilla because it's lower in surgar, but she definitely keeps mentioning greek yogurt as one of the first soft foods since it's high in Protein, so it sounds like a good choice to me Yes, it does seem very much like politics, which ever surgery you choose people are very adament about it being the right one! I definitely see the good and bad side of things here with working at the hospital, I think that's what made me finally take the plunge. One person I know at work got the flu/high fever a couple months after, twice, and ended up in the ER both times because her stomach swelled and she couldn't keep anything down, was dehydrated/vomiting... and yet she still is the biggest advocate and said she wouldn't change a thing and would do it all over again. They took all of her "fill" out, so she could recover from the flu, then got re-filled. So that's reassuring if she went through that and is still happy with it!
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New from CA & contemplating the band....
JustSandra replied to Pangela's topic in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story
I was so scared of getting the band but in the first two weeks I lost 30 pounds and I have been big since I was a child. I am still big right now but the band has cut down on my eating and it was the best thing I ever could have done. Don't be scared. (: -
Hi Sherilyn, Congrats on your approval! It is standard protocol to stay overnight in the ICU with my group, but I think it is a hospital regulation. With your diabetes I can't imagine they would send you home. I would want to stay. BTW, my surgeon recommends you stay out of works for 4 to 6 weeks following surgery! I was shocked. I work at home, so I plan on only taking a week or two, but they explained that they really, really want you to solely concentrate on yourself and your new band, the adjustments, etc. Sounds good to me.
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Hey everyone, Thanks for the input. I think I will choose to stay. I'm very 'new' to the diabetes, just diagnosed the last 6 weeks or so. Not yet on insulin, but the medications that they have put me on, PLUS new meds for my blood pressure - are making me have 'weak' or 'dizzying' episodes. I think just being monitored overnight; and hopefully progressing from clear liquids to protein shakes might be the thing for me! I'll see the Doc next Wednesday at my 'pre-op' class - I'll tell them then.
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Congrats on your approval. My surgeon is also requires an overnight hospital stay. The next morning after surgery I had a barium swallow test, then they progressed me from water, to clear broth, to protein shakes over the course of about 2 hours. If I could tolerate that without any complications, than it was okay to be discharged. I went in for 10:30 am surgery Monday and I was discharged around 4pm Tuesday. I struggled to get up and around until Friday, but didn't feel like myself for probably another 5 or so days. By 1.5 weeks out I was fine. Everyone is different so it will be a wait and see for you but plan to take it easy. Best wishes on a great surgery and speedy recovery.
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Bandsters who have taken a cruises, Please Reply
TamifromAL replied to Iluvcarbs's topic in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums
I just got back from a cruise last week. I have very moderate restriction, and really didn't have any problems with eating. I still didn't eat bread, which is one thing I still avoid. I've never had a problem with motion sickness, and didn't have a problem on the cruise. I did catch a nasty cold, though, which is hanging on forever. Make sure you are very careful about using the anti-septic gels (provided on the ship), and wash your hands frequently. Also, take some anti-nausea pills, just in case. We didn't have a problem with the Norwalk virus on our ship, but I know that it continues to be a problem on cruises, and you sure don't want to be throwing up. My biggest concern was simply gaining weight on an eat-a-thon cruise. But, I gained only one pound, which dropped off the next day back, and two more the next day, so I actually had a net loss of two pounds two days after getting back. That really topped off a great vacation! (Oh, and an absolutely gorgeous YOUNG man hit on me!) Tami -
I have been banded going on 3 months and feel like this from time to time. As a matter of fact, I have been in a rut for a week where I feel like I am not making good choices. I get really angry at myself and dwell on it. I eat fairly well, but I have a morning snack and an afternoon snack. I know we aren't supposed to, but it has always worked for me, until now. I have hit a plateau and I am pretty sure that I need to cut Snacks out to get out of "stuck" mode. We just need to snap out of it and remember nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. I keep repeating that to myself. GOOD LUCK!
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A little here a little there,, that is how I am feeling with my eating.. I have had my first fill, not really any difference than before fill. I get in the scale and reads the same, so I am not gaining so I think it is okay to eat a snack here and there. I am not losing though either, but I feel once I have fill number 2 this week then I will not be so hungry. My surgery was July 1st and this has been the hardest week for me yet, I thought the other weeks were hard not so much.. I thought I had the emotional eating under control, and I did until this last week. Will I always struggle with the emotional eating? I am still under 1000 calories most days, but the choices are not the best or as good as they should be. Every day I am like 2morrow I will do shakes only, and then I wake up so hungry and forget I have even said that until the days goes on.. I am getting frustrated with myself, my self control this week is terrible and I am so disappointed in myself. For example I opened a package of Cheetos for my daughter and a pack of goldfish for my other daughter today and I took a bite from each bag like 2 -3 chips. Or a piece of cheese and sausage I feel terrible for this and tell myself you are not supposed to have snacks.. I need to eliminate the snacking. Drink water right? okay so I try that and still the hungry feeling is there, it is like I am obsessed with eating. I have never had this feeling before. At the beginning these foods did not look appealing to me, this week I feel like I am a wolf who has not eaten for weeks when I look at everything I can't have, and unfortunately give in. Does anyone have any pointers with getting the self control, back under control? I was also wondering if with the lap band, this is a stage and will l have this reoccurring stage several times? Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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So I need some advice please. I was banded in March 2012, have lost 55 pounds so far. I haven't had much trouble, vomiting every once in a while (I'd say once a week or so) when I've gotten stuck on various items. In the past week, I've noticed a tiny, tiny bit of acid reflux. Isn't worse at night, is just worse in general. Is not enough to even bother me, have just noticed it. Yesterday I ate tuna salad with a little romaine lettuce. It was very little, probably 1/2 cup. After I ate it, I vomited, and I do mean vomited it all up. It wasn't like a pb, it seemed like a real vomit. (sorry, I know that's gross). I should have not eaten dinner at all last night, but I thought I could do Soup. So I went to a chinese place and had hot & sour soup. Vomited after that as well. (too chunky I'm sure). I don't feel bad (like a stomach virus), but am getting concerned. I can keep down fluids, no problem. I don't want to ignore a too-tight band, or a possible slip. (paranoid). I only have like 3 or 4 cc (can't even remember) in my band, haven't had a fill since probably May. Can a band just get too tight on it's own without any other fills/issues? Does this sound like the start of a slip? Ugh. If it's not better by Monday I'm going to call and get in with my surgeon. Any advice?
