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10/3 here!

Hello, I'm scheduled for November 19. I too want to be able to cross my legs!!!!!

Hi Philip, Congratulations on your surgery and 19 pounds down! I'm excited for all the positive things coming your way. I bet you can't wait for your next food progression. take care of yourself. I hope you bounce back from surgery quickly. Jenn

I’m in the middle of my pre op diet and I’m soooo hungry. I don’t know how I’m supposed to do 10 more days of this 😂

Pre-Op testing tomorrow morning. Not worried about the tests, but it’s sobering knowing this is actually happening in 10 more days. Anyone else second guessing their decision? I’m ready, but can’t help doubting at this point. Hope that feeling goes away soon.

Going in for my pre op this week. Talking with surgeon and last meeting with nutritionist prior to the 10/15 big day. Hoping for the best results for everyone getting ready for their October surgeries. Nervous, excited, my two big worries are hair loss and dehydration. Love reading others experiences. Hoping it helps me be better prepared. 🙂

My surgeon doesn't want us to take any vitamins until our post-op appointment, 10(ish) days after surgery, and then the nutritionists really suggest chewables for the first few months. He does expect us to take Prilosec, even the first day after surgery, but I think that's the only one. (Well, and he gave me a prescription for some anti-nausea pills, but those mess with serotonin, so I'll do my best not to take those at all.)

I'm a 66 year old male. I used to be very sporty and rode my bicycle daily with friends in competition races on occasion. My wife died in 2011 and it was about then that I started eating. I went from 165lbs to 290lbs by the start of 2018. This was heavy as I am only 5' 4" tall. I had been trying all sorts of diets and methods, and exercise. I took al lot of weight off with Atkins but it all came back. My doctor was not a fan of bariatric surgery so I got things moving myself. I signed up with a hospital in Iowa and three weeks later they told me I was not a candidate because I was older than 65 years. In February'18, I found my way to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and their Digestive Disease Department. It took till March to get an appointment. At this first appointment I met with various health professionals, the Bariatric program Director, the surgeon, a Dietitian, among others who spent much time taking vitals and blood samples, and family history. Apparently my general health was good but the surgeon wanted my blood pressure down a little. Over the next three months I was on a healthy diet of green leafy vegetables and and other non carb, non fat foods Dietary wise it was the worst three months of my dieting life. However the surgeon expected me to lose about 20lbs. There were three meeting with the dietitian during those months and I was ably to produce a record fo food intake, of a sorts, and answer questions such as are you drinking the water company dry everyday, are you walking a hundred miles before breakfast each day, have you curtailed your visits to the drive-thru, and have you stopped drinking pepsi and beer. After the three months I was down to 275lbs and I thought that was pretty good. I then met with the surgeon and was told that I was fit to be a candidate for the program and that they would now submit all the paperwork to Medicare for approval. This process took another month or so, and then a month or six-weeks later I was scheduled for surgery. The whole process took over six-months. Ten days before the surgery I was put on a liquid diet of 1000 calories one day and 850 calories the next. This was a difficult diet to maintain for the time. However, by the time the surgery date came around I had lost the first 32lbs. The thy of the surgery was a little intimidating. I had had laparoscopic surgery a few years earlier for prostate cancer. That time I remember I had both my daughters with me in the ready room and at post-op. This time I was on my own as I had not told anyone of my surgery. My closest friend, my financial guy, was the only one who knew of my bariatric surgery. Everyone else thought I was going in for a hiatus hernia op. which the doc said he was going to fix on the way through. After the surgery I spent about 24 hours in a room in the surgical ward. Within three hours I was walking the hallway. I had blood tests, an urine samples taken. I have never seen an IV drip stand festooned with so many little plastic packages. By morning I had slept a few hours and got up went for a walk and stayed up either walking or sitting in a chair. The surgeon came in to visit twice and his assistant was in several times. In the mid afternoon, the whole surgical team arrived To check on everything before letting me go. The staff at the hospital were outstanding I could not fault a single person. I have been home for three weeks now and am preparing to return tomorrow to my part-time job at Lowes. I have been on pureed food for a week and ready to go to soft, Since the surgery I have lost 19 lbs. My weight today is 239.5lbs. Philip

Does anyone have a Protein Shake and a Protein Bar in one day? Coming off my first stall and I’m trying to schedule my small meals every 2 - 3 hrs .... and just wondering what everyone else eats. I’m almost 7 weeks post op and my food looks like this: Green tea Protein shake - 30g Light string cheese or egg - 7 g Tuna / turkey chomp - 10 / 17 g soft veggies Protein and veggies sugar free popsicle / SF jello  Drink water / vitamin zero / etc all day And that’s about it gang. All approved on my plan. Thoughts? Kind ones of course :)

Good Morning Everyone!! Approved for band to bypass revision on 9/26, I found out when I called Aetna on 9/28, pre-op appt schedule for 10/4.. my advocate told me to start my liver shrink diet Saturday (yesterday) which will put me at a 6 day advantage on this 2 week liver shrink when I go to my preop appt.. and a possible early October surgery date if available since I started the liver shrink diet already..I'm excited!!!!

((hugs)) So I feel and hear your concern. And I really hear that you love, respect, and honor her--but also that you have fear inside that the surgery has negatively impacted her/you in many ways. But I think you need some facts in order to review your premise, because the basic premise is flawed by personal bias that is mediated by fear. 1. Diet and exercise do not work. Ever. They are temporary fixes in an unaltered body and fewer than 5% can maintain a 10% weight loss over 5 years time. Fewer than 5%. To give perspective, even WITH altering the gut and surgery, I've heard doctors speak of 5 year results of maintaining the full weight loss at less than 5%. They count success if someone maintains a 50% weight loss over that same time frame. So weight rebound is REAL. This surgery isn't really WLS. It's weight maintenance surgery because it DOES help improve the odds that you can lose substantial amounts of weight and at least keep 50% of it off over 5 years. 2. You are used to seeing your wife morbidly obese. You are. And now you see her thin-ness and fear that she is thin and guant. Gaunt happens. Especially if you are older. But, give it 1 year. The fat re-apportions itself and gaunt features will fill out and soften. 3. All weight loss comes with muscle loss. The end. We must do strength training to rebuild muscle and tone. Everyone must--especially if they want to maintain the losses. 4. Yeah...some women lose libido with weight loss, especially if you are peri-meno or menopausal. It sucks...but should be temporary. 5. Personality and moods change with extreme weight loss--it's a process and a journey and it takes a while for us to get our heads "right". The best thing you can do is be super supportive and compliment her on how she looks and reassure her that you think she's smokin' hot. Also, woo her. Don't just "Hey mama, let's get it on." Women want romance, and caresses that lead nowhere other than to be made to feel special--to tell her you enjoy being close to her. Try titillating her mind and senses rather than the end game. Try doing that kind of stuff and see if her libido changes!!! 6. I can assure you that we do NOT get to the Morbid Obesity Ball due to character flaws--due to lacking self-discipline. In order to get there most of us have exerted MASSIVE amounts of will power, time, energy, and committment to yo-yo our way through our broken metabolism and I would claim that we have more willpower than you will EVER (as a normie) be able to comprehend. The End.

This is way hard! And extremely frustrating! I live with 4 other adults and 2 “kids” 14 and 4. My milk is Silk protein nut milk, which it cost $3.49 a half gallon, where as Almond milk is $2.59 and reg. 2% is under $2. I have very limited income ($300/ mo) and fs under $200 a month. I have been hiding the choc and van flavors in my fridge in my “room” and put only the reg in there. They don’t touch that! (Haha) or my coconut oil spread (butter substitute) I do shop for the whole house, with a “budgeted amount” they give me for their food. I buy us the same yogurt, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese. Funny that flavors I “hate” show up on my shelf. So someone is swapping out flavors because I hate peach and strawberry banana. But somehow they get traded out. If you don’t like them, don’t switch them out. Especially with something you know I can’t stand and literally the smell makes me sick. (Peach) and my dairy free and low sugar ice cream. There are literally 10 half gallons of ice cream in the house (no I am not joking) and would prefer to take my $5 a pint halo top. I just don’t understand people, and don’t think I ever will. To me it’s respect. My shelf is clearly marked and so is my shelf on the door. But it doesn’t stop them, especially when my fridge is downstairs, and my room is upstairs

So I am off all medication other than vitamins. I am down 122 lbs total since my surgery on May 10, 2018. Hard to believe how much my life has changed in just four months. I have continued to eat right. I walk at least 5 miles a day and workout five days a week M-F and take weekends off from lifting. My body has changed completely. I haven’t been in this good of shape since I played college football. Amazing journey so far.

Of course I have been to all those places, Little Brown Jug in Delaware, although it is a madhouse in person. The Columbus Zoo near Powell. Getting so built up Olentangy Schools have 3 High Schools now. Libert, Orange and the plain Olentangy Braves. And a strong,possibility of #4 ahead. Got. a bit of Trivia for you. Mid-late 60s Radnor had its very own Tornado. My parents drove over, of course I was along, I was an only child, with adults more than kids my age, what I remember was: hay straw being driven into walls like it were nails. Now that is some force! And the 2 things I remember about Ashley , Route 229 ends there and they have a big furniture store. Did you ever see the Blue Church near Kilbourne? And have you been to Olive Green? I lived out of Centerburg on Eckard Road, which changes its name to Justamere in Delaware County . We decided to go to Olive green one,bright sunny day, my older son in seat on back of my bike, my younger son, who grew up to become Tomkitten in a baby seat on the back of my daughter's. I wanted to take them there because the Olive Green store had a hand-crank cash register, and in an age of Krogers and Wal'Mart they had never seen such a thing! Really was a fun thing to do. Now R.D. is nearly 50, only speaks to me in months with R, her loss. RD stands for Rotten Daughter, and she has earned it, my older son has been an angel😇 for 10 years last January,this is something you never heal from,still miss him, Tomkitten and I always will!😇 Disney and Florida's gain is our loss! Come,back and visit sometime, if your Mom was anywhere close to my age I might have known her. Mount Vernon can be,pitifully small-town at times!👉😛👈

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Scheduled for 10/24/18. Sent from my SM-G965U using BariatricPal mobile app

@sleevemebaby7781 10 days isn’t too far out. Anytime you start will help. You could also try the liver cleansing tonic that’s been around for decades to help you out. Just know that you are doing this so your liver doesn’t get punctured. And before they risk puncturing you - they’ll just close you up. And I don’t know the costs for that.

I’m 10 days out: my doc said my liver was so “tiny” and I actually loved the creativity I had in my preop diet. I did have big salads that I would eat, put aside and finish later. That was my portion control. I chose very flavorful protein rich fulls and played around with seasonings that were mostly approved: light adobo is a good one. I avoided carby veggies and fruits and enjoyed eggs and even bunless burgers with mayo and mustard 1 oz light cheese. I never really felt hungry. And I started each morning w/premier. Actually I look forward to going back to that diet. It was filling, tasty, and I lost 10 lbs of fat, not H2O. I should also add that I cut back carbs (bread, noodles, rice) in July and more so one month out from surgery.

Congrats! I had mine a week before you and also had a horrible ordeal but it will get better. I promise promise. I’m 10 days out today and I am really feeling better. I kept in the front of my mind: “this too shall pass” and “I didn’t come this far to fall apart.” YOU WILL BE VICTOOOOORIOUS!

Thank you for sharing. I am trying to get my hydration right. I understand people needing to share the difficult. Just wondered if that was a definite or if there were others with more success, like you. And actually, I’d never heard some of these really bad experiences until after my procedure (last week) so I was getting frightened, emailing my docs daily, and planning for the worst. I know I may have negative experiences too in the future that I’ll want to share for support - but was wondering if it turns out bad for everyone eventually. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Yes to the rules- at 10 days out I am trying to find the best ways to hydrate. QQ: Do you still eat really really small meals?

I'm on day 4 of liquids and have lost 6ish pounds. (I mean, on top of the three months of dieting.) If I can keep losing at this rate, I'll have hit my surgeon's "10% of starting body weight lost before surgery" goal before my surgery next Wednesday. I got him to let me slide in at the beginning of flu season, whether I hit the goal or not, because I work in public service and get bronchitis every winter. Bronchitis would push my surgery back to ... like, April, maybe, by the time I got better and they got me back on the schedule. But hitting the goal would still feel good.

I’m scheduled for 10/1 and getting super anxious. I am on day 11 of pre op liquids and I’ve lost 14 lbs. I’m wondering how much weight everyone else has lost.

I can't eat canned soups. There is something in the ingredients that makes me vomit immediately after. It doesn't matter if it's a tsp., Tbsp or the whole can. I had to stop eating canned soups about 10 years ago. So I became a master soup maker so I could enjoy it at home. I can't even use the prepackaged broths.

I started 10 days out and am adhering totally. Don’t wait. It’s all about your health and safety.

Man I'm so jealous lol. My doctors require a 3 week full liquid diet before stage 2. So tired of protein shakes and only liquids. 21 days will be this Wednesday 10/03. I'm so ready to move on. Sent from my SM-G930T using BariatricPal mobile app