New to this and hope to get more support

[rose333 3]

Hey everyone! My name is rose and im new to this. Im looking to get more support and hear about everyones wonderful accomplishments.

A little bit about me, I have always been over weight. But the only thing is that I've always been active. I played basketball from the 3rd grade to my freshman year in high school but the junk food and stress got the best of me. I gained most of my weight in high school.

Now the numbers ughh.....

Highest weight:307

Current weight:277

Surgery weight:277

I was just recently contacted by Baratrics at Kaiser in Fremont, California that I will be having surgery on February 6th!!!! Im so happy and excited but nervous at the same time. I have to go to pre-op on the 25th. I just can't wait till February 6th... the day I change my life!

[kat77 63]

Ha...we are more than surgery date twins.... I am at 275.4 and my high weigh was 324... a bit more than you. I am 35 and 5.8 (used to be 5.10 lost 2 from back problems) I am also in Ca...going to have my surgery in riverside at park veiw by dr Kron. I hope well can get o know each other better.

Kat

[Wendilou 180]

Hi Rose! It's great to meet you =) I'm new here too--no surgery date yet as I'm still in the pre-op stages. We can go through this together!

[Vicki Loichinger 444]

Welcome rose, glad you found us. Look forward to sharing in your journey.

[sleevemeup 41]

Welcome! I am a week after you!

[lisaarellano 20]

Hey everyone! My name is rose and im new to this. Im looking to get more support and hear about everyones wonderful accomplishments.

A little bit about me' date=' I have always been over weight. But the only thing is that I've always been active. I played basketball from the 3rd grade to my freshman year in high school but the junk food and stress got the best of me. I gained most of my weight in high school.

Now the numbers ughh.....

Highest weight:307

Current weight:277

Surgery weight:277

I was just recently contacted by Baratrics at Kaiser in Fremont, California that I will be having surgery on February 6th!!!! Im so happy and excited but nervous at the same time. I have to go to pre-op on the 25th. I just can't wait till February 6th... the day I change my life![/quote']

I am Also kaiser Fremont. Who is your surgeon?

[lisaarellano 20]

I am at kaiser Fremont also who is your surgeon

[Dawnolson 85]

What were your requirements for Kaiser Fremont? I am kaiser Nw and I've been doing classes and orientation and another class then visits with a nutritionist and Social worker. Have one more visit with them then one to blood tests and surgeon visit to hopefully get a date.

[rose333 3]

Thanks for all the support everyone! And my surgeon is Dr. Chu. The process for me was a little different than others. I started this journey last year February I attended 2 seminars and then met with the nutritionist and surgeon. But after that I wasn't too sure if I wanted to get the surgery so I decided to try one more time on my own but failed! So by November I decided this is the best thing for me and I called Bariatrics but had to get my referral reactivated witch took about a day or 2. Then they called me once they got the referral to set up an appointment over the phone with my surgeon. I had the over the phone appointment and next had to lose 5 pounds to be within 5 pounds of my surgery weight to see the psychiatrist and do blood work. I saw the psychiatrist and she said she was going to give all my paper work over to my surgeon and in a week I got a surprising phone call that I was all good to go and my surgery date is February 6th and pre-op is January 25th.

[rose333 3]

@Kat77 hey surgery twin hope we can get to know each other more and get threw this together! Im 5'7 an inch shorter lol but a bit younger im 20. Hope all is well February isnt coming fast enough for me!!!

[PB&J's MaMa 0]

@rose333 I'm also new to this and will be going thru Kaiser Fremont as well even though I live in San Jose. Just got the courage to call them yesterday to schedule my first seminar. Good luck to you on your journey and I look forward to reading about it.

[lisaarellano 20]

I have dr. Hahn in Fremont. It has taken me just over a year to go from my referal date to my surgery date of February 13.