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Optifast questions and inquiry
Yvonne22474 replied to stargirl19's topic in Gastric Bypass Surgery Forums
I use bariatric advantage protein shake products. -
Passion Fruit Lemonade Protein Shake Recipe
BaileyBariatrics posted a topic in Weight Loss Surgery Magazine
If you enjoy sipping cold lemonade on a hot day, here’s a recipe for you. This lemonade combines passion fruit tea and protein to make it bariatric friendly. Enjoy sipping this lemonade whether you are sittin’ on your favorite porch or driving your kids to swim lessons. -
I agree! My surgeon was fairly picky about bariatric vitamins. I know some people take Flinstones. It's crazy how different these programs are. I say, find what works for you, and if it's Flinstones or Caltrate.... safe the extra buck!
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Isn’t Caltrate Calcium carbonate rather than calcium citrate? That’s why I didn’t buy it and bought Bariatric Advantage instead. Citrate is more easily absorbed; we were instructed not to use the carbonate form.
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Intimacy / mental health / pre-op thoughts
Creekimp13 replied to jessicasz's topic in The Gals' Room
This one is a little less bleak, but still worth reading: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bariatric-surgery-relationship-status-20180327-story.html A large Swedish study has found that obese people who had a spouse or live-in partner and then underwent weight loss surgery were 28% more likely to become separated or divorced compared with those in a comparison group who didn't have surgery. (given that about 50% of marriages end in divorce under normal circumstances....adding an extra 28% brings you close to 80%) -
Intimacy / mental health / pre-op thoughts
Creekimp13 replied to jessicasz's topic in The Gals' Room
https://www.healthcentral.com/article/divorce-rate-after-bariatric-surgery-is-high-my-bariatric-life -
Any Netflix or Hulu Shows of Bariatric Life or WLS?
mitchjoann132010 posted a topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any shows on Hulu or Netflix on Bariatric Patient's, Weight Loss Surgery, etc? The ones I've heard of are: Hungry for Change Fat Sick & Nearly Dead The Big Ward (watched) Pre-Op patients undergoing process of surgery. Obesity: The Post Mortem (watched) Dissection of obese person and how it affects the body. Does anybody have any other suggestions? -
University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB)
ByeFelicia posted a topic in Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals
Has anyone had the sleeve or any other type of bariatric surgery at UAB in Birmingham? Thoughts, opinions, process? -
Intimacy / mental health / pre-op thoughts
Creekimp13 replied to jessicasz's topic in The Gals' Room
Research divorce rates after bariatric surgery. 80-85% of couples will split up 2 years after bariatric surgery. Surgeons and psychologists will tell you....surgery can make a good relationship better, and a bad relationship worse. Be prepared for that. -
false Establishing/Sustaining Support
Frustr8 posted a topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
As we start out on our Weight Loss Journey it is always nice to have someone share the trek. Often,we talk about this or that person being unsupportive. Who is your main support person? Is it your husband,your wife, your mother or father, your significant other, your partner, a good friend or your children. Who do feel has "your back" no matter what? Or is the friends you have made on Bariatric Pal? I'll start with me since I brought the subject up. My main one is my son, he is super supportive, is happy with my weight victories, understands when my weight stalls and I get cranky. I have 2 friends who have gone through WLS and all my new friends on Bariatric Pal who have taught me so much. So okay, who do you have whose help you know you can rely on? -
Food and Soups From Bariatric Pals
MACPOWER posted a topic in POST-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
So I’m on my 5th day post-op. All I can eat is liquids till the 30th when I meet with my doc again and he hopefully moves me to more solid food. I was looking into the soups on the Bariatric Pals Store. Has anyone tried any of them and if so, are any of them good? -
How much weight do people typically regain after surgery?
Creekimp13 posted a topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
This is something a lot of folks are curious about. Found this answer at The American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery site: Misconception: Most people who have metabolic and bariatric surgery regain their weight. Truth: As many as 50 percent of patients may regain a small amount of weight (approximately 5 percent) two years or more following their surgery. However, longitudinal studies find that most bariatric surgery patients maintain successful weight-loss long-term. ‘Successful’ weight-loss is arbitrarily defined as weight-loss equal to or greater than 50 percent of excess body weight. Often, successful results are determined by the patient, by their perceived improvement in quality of life. In such cases, the total retained weight-loss may be more, or less, than this arbitrary definition. Such massive and sustained weight reduction with surgery is in sharp contrast to the experience most patients have previously had with non-surgical therapies. -
Tomorrow Is The Big Day!
Frustr8 replied to MACPOWER's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
my bariatric and my left,shoulder. Anything else, no thank,you.😛 -
The simple answer is that you won't even have a surgical appointment until after you finish your dietitian classes, so just let the bariatric surgeon's office know about scheduling. The only concern would be some insurance need everything to have been completed within 6 months of surgery so if it gets pushed back far enough you may have to get some updated letters for whatever specialist you saw (or not every insurance company is different). On a separate note do you know why both surgeries can't be performed the same day? Or alternatively if you can get your WLS first and not have to wait 6 weeks for the shoulder surgery?
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I would like to be Type A, a lot of us in the first flush are. But in most other things in life I'm--- B baby- all the way. So in Bariatrics i expect I'll be the same. Spent too much of my life beating myself up,mentally and emotionally and it gained,me,nothing except disgust and self-loathing. I realize now how counter-productive it is to hate yourself. So I'm learning day by day, I'm pretty cool,and quite worthy of love. And I'm going to reward myself with the Surgical renovations I need to live in this body.Like the flippable houses on HGTV I have "good bones" instead of hauling me off to the dump, I will tear my flawed drywall off, get down to the studs and rebuild myself out. Don't need to sell myself, indeed I don't have to even try to be marketable, I'll just stand firm on my foundation of healthy diet. and good lifestyle practices. And the winds of fattening fast food, sugary snacks and missing meals will not prevail for I know me, I love me and from now on I'M STANDING STRONG!😛
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I think the fears are there for at least most of us, but we are here doing this because we know our own histories. We know how many times we tried so many things only to wind up heavier, less happy and less healthy in the long run. To be successful in the long term we need better tools than "willpower" and all the dieting advice in the world. Bariatric surgery is the only tool proven to make significant weight loss maintenance in the long term possible for obese people (though not without the determination to work with that tool effectively). This is not "cheating". This is finally getting the tool you need to succeed in weightloss and all the future benefits and opportunities that leads to. YOU CAN DO THIS!
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I think I'd really struggle on full liquids only diet for weeks of pre op. I'm lucky my surgeon found that too many people fail an all liquid diet and the stuff they fall back on is generally worse than including just a meat and veggies real dinner during pre op. Only my final day before surgery is all liquids. I didn't really get to have any food funerals. The bariatric physician wanted me on a pre op diet for 4 weeks ahead of surgery, but when I saw the surgeon a few days later there was a theatre opening only 3 weeks later that he was happy to book me in, so my pre op began immediately lol. I'm still not tolerating a meal replacement shake in the morning, as it makes me feel queasy for at least an hour. Most days I've been having a single scrambled egg and a coffee with 200ml 1% milk as my breakfast (is less calories than the VLCD shake, and once my protein water powder arrives I can include an extra 15g protein in my coffee so will be about equivalent protein). After that I can bring myself to spoon-eat/drink a protein shake make with lots of ice for lunch and don't get queasy. If I get hungry mid afternoon I have some homemade veggie& chicken stock soup while I look forward to a relatively normal meat and steamed veggies dinner. I've been dropping a half kilo a day on this so I figure it's working ok.
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I don’t think it has to do with costs. If it were due to costs, they’d still do them because wouldn’t you want your patient coming back for more appointments & getting filled/Unfilled? Anyhow, I have sat in on many informational classes by bariatric surgeons and they no longer do bands because the risks outweigh the benefits. Too many erosions, slips, etc.
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I first read about ESG late last year and was immediately interested in it as I liked the non-surgery/minimally invasiveness of the procedure. I have private health insurance but in Australia ESG isn't covered by medicare therefore private health insurance doesn't give a rebate for the procedure. I am about 5ft1 and weigh 95kgs. I have been overweight a long time and like many have tried many different things. I did lose weight about 10 years ago, and got down to 65kgs, while that wasn't in the healthy weight range for my height...I did like how it looked on me. That lasted about two years or so, and I put the weight back on along with another 12kgs and it is still slowly rising. I have been being doing my research and have finally decided it's time to take action. I have had a number of blood tests and will be talking to my preferred surgeon 9th May to find out if I am a good candidate for the ESG. While I am eager to talk to the surgeon and set a date, it is likely that I won't be having the procedure until Sept/Oct. If I am not a good candidate for ESG I don't know what I will do...my insurance and medicare would cover a band or the standard sleeve and bypass, but I looked into the band some time ago and determined it wasn't for me. Not sure if I up to the surgical options even if covered by insurance and medicare. I have started some light exercise (mostly walking and weights) and have just commenced planning my meals and working on portion control. This photo was taken the other night, I am the overweight one! The other three standing are my younger sisters and that's my mother sitting...and to think I thought that top fitted me quite well when I looked in the mirror lol, certainly looks different in a photo. I will take some more before photos in the next day or so, I realised I have very few photos as I typical hide from the camera. I've enjoyed reading a lot of posts on Bariatric Pal in general and realised its about time I put me out there! I particularly like reading posts from ESGers please keep the updates coming.
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Tomorrow Is The Big Day!
Frustr8 replied to MACPOWER's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Hey Manpower what strength is a green stretchy rubber thing that the use in rehab and PT at the gym? My former one gave me this, I'm probably supposed to be exercising with it, guess who hasn't. Yepper, little,me! I start a new round Wednesday, I am having trouble with my left shoulder area. Hurts so bad it wakes me up from a sound sleep. I'd,like to have,my,bariatric firstare and then have the shoulder fixed. I told my,ortho it would be done before September or I'm Mary Queen of Scots. I don't know when. but it just can not ..go on much longer. 😩 -
4/23! Surgery buddy?!
Frustr8 replied to Sprinkles1's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
@Sprinkles1 I'm pretty sure your surgery is this week. Were you the OP on this thread? Because if you were then yours is not until next week. Ken the Bariatric Administrator convinced me Friday to install the new Beta version of Bariatric Pal on my Android smartphone. I am trying to learn how to navigate,it, I was offline for BP for over 12 hours. And I see now I wasn't the only one. He asked today for me to give him a review, I gave him both complaints and praise in it. Apparently Alex and Ken upgraded IOS in January or February, I hope Apple owners aren't having,problems again like me. Well I just wanted to tell you I've been watching your progress and I think you are going to make a success of all this. And I certainly are cheering you on!😛🚩 -
A lot of WLS folks are surprised by my calorie recommendations. Here they are from my packet....note that 1000-1200 calorie goal gets introduced at mushy food stage. I hit 1000 calories a day at 3 weeks. During one of our seminars a speaker said....beware doctors who push starvation level calories, you'll hear other people who have had WLS talking about calorie levels that seem much lower than what we're advising......some doctors want rapid weight loss patients because they are walking advertisements for their clinics. Their client's long term success may not be their first priority. Not to say that doctors who do things differently than my group are wrong....I fully recognize this is an emerging science and that diet will always be a topic of a lot of controversy. There are different ways up the mountain and you need to work with the people you've chosen. It is oldschool conventional wisdom in bariatrics to take advantage of the smaller appetite and push small calorie goals in the early months. Pushing higher calorie levels early to stimulate metabolism is a newer concept that a lot of oldschool clinics just don't embrace yet. Just sayin....ask good questions. Listen to your body. If you don't have good energy, if you don't feel terrific, if you feel like something is wrong....pay attention to that. I'm excited that our protocol is being adopted by Bethesda and Cedars Sinai. And I'm excited to be part of a longitudinal study.
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I just bought the Bariatric Advantage chews in caramel and lemon flavors. They are very good, kind of like candy, and sugar free. Much better than swallowing the 6 Citrical pills a day I have been taking for the last 7 months. I may return to Citrical, however, given that the chews are fairly expensive.
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I got watermelon flavor from Celebrate (Bariatric online health store). No sugar Lots of people like caramel or chocolate flavors too
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That is so good and imagine the kilos you'll lose over next 2 weeks preop(starvation diet)Lol. I am so looking forward to getting under 100kg again. I know when I went up that extra 10kg from90's -100kg I really noticed it physically and mentally. Every bit we lose I'm positive will give us more energy and enthusiasm. It's hard work carrying our big loads of weight. I know often I have felt so trapped in my own body. It's not like an uncomfortable outfit you can just rip off and feel fine. It's funny but I was due the surgery 3 years ago and found out a few days before my bariatric ordered gastroscope I was pregnant. If I hadn't realised and gone ahead I would've lost my baby. Anyway now it's time for me to focus on myself for a change and I know my boys will benefit.
