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I was just curious about everyone else experiences with nutrition class and one on one consultation with the dietician. What about the psych eval!?

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What your referring to as the nutrition class we called it Life Skills Workshop, it was for 3 hours for 3 weeks and was basic education, most stuff I had already known.

Dietitian / Nutritionist is very helpful, I've seen her for going on 6 months and she helps a lot. We go over what I've ate and the exercise I'm doing and have a weigh in.

The physc eval was a breeze. Nothing to worry about.

Basic questions on why I want surgery, and knowing all the pros and cons, ect. That its a tool we have to use, its not doing the work on its own.

Don't worry. Its all very helpful in this long journey!

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What your referring to as the nutrition class we called it Life Skills Workshop' date=' it was for 3 hours for 3 weeks and was basic education, most stuff I had already known.

Dietitian / Nutritionist is very helpful, I've seen her for going on 6 months and she helps a lot. We go over what I've ate and the exercise I'm doing and have a weigh in.

The physc eval was a breeze. Nothing to worry about.

Basic questions on why I want surgery, and knowing all the pros and cons, ect. That its a tool we have to use, its not doing the work on its own.

Don't worry. Its all very helpful in this long journey![/quote']

Wow. You had a NUT class for three weeks? I only got 1 class and 1 one-on-one. That was it. Almost Everything about nutrition I've learned from here and in some other groups.

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I just have the one nutrition class which takes care of that requirement for me. As for my psych eval, it was about 45 minutes of chatting with a psychologist about why I want to have the surgery and making sure I was well aware of what was going to be done to my body and what my expectations and behavioral changes after surgery would be.

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I had one 2 hour class that included a 15 minute nutrition component. Then I had a 30 minute appt w/ the nurse, 30 minute w/ NUT, & the psych was literally 10 minutes. The place I'm having surgery at seems like a mill-everything very regimented. Not a lot of time for questions.

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I had a pre op nutrition class, a one on one nutrition evaluation, a one on one exercise eval, a 2 hour psych eval and a 2 hour long post op nutrition class. Very comprehensive care. A bit of a pain at times, but at the end of the day, worth it.

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I had two psych evaluations that's just because im bipolar and the dr wanted to be sure I was ready

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They basically just want to make sure you dont have eating disorders. Trying to binge eat after surgery could kill you, as could trying to be anorexic or bulimic

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