Kaiser patients

[sarahisgreat 48]

Any Kaiser patients out there who can let me know if they also weigh you in at the psych eval? I'm close to hitting my surgeon's goal weight and hope to weigh in there as that will be my next upcoming appt after lifestyles & nutrition which I have tomorrow.

Thanks!

[soontobemrsvsg 3]

I wasn't weighed at my psych eval. It was about a month ago in fontana, ca

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[soontobemrsvsg 3]

Which kaiser did u do options at?

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[sarahisgreat 48]

Sorry, northern cali- no options class.

[soontobemrsvsg 3]

Oh okay.

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[shessoonsleeved 23]

I'm a kaiser patient in northern cali and I had to still get weighed at my psych appointment

[sarahisgreat 48]

Excellent!

[chele367 81]

Kaiser Bariatrics will weight you at each and every appointment and they do not play, even surgery morning you get weighed in. So get use to it and make the scale your friend. Kaiser Richmond will not let you take your shoes off to weigh without socks on, so I kept a pair of footie socks like you wear to try shoes on in my purse, or had them on already so I could remove my shoes. Now they used two different scales one in the Bariatric office and one in the surgeon office, the one in the Bariatric office ran two pounds high, the one in the surgery dept ran 2 lbs lower. So when you are working hard to lose weight those two pounds matter. I tried to get my home scale in tune w theirs so there were never any surprises. I still weigh myself every morning. I have lost 145 pounds and jump up two to three pounds then fall back. I am no longer in rapid weight loss so getting that last 10lbs seems harder than the first 20 pounds! Good luck you can do it!!!!! Best thing I ever did.

[sarahisgreat 48]

Thank you so much! I am 6 pounds away from meeting the surgeon's goal weight and am looking forward to the weigh ins. However long it takes is how it's going to be. I'm eating right, exercising and drinking tons of Water. Not sure how accurate my scale is at home but will find out when I weigh in today. Also, I did notice the difference between the bariatric scale and the surgeons. That was in the SSF office too. I was 376 on 8/29 at the bariatric office and 369 9/1 at the surgeons, so frustrating but oh well. Slow and steady wins the race, let's hope.

[chele367 81]

Good! You have the right attitude! It feels like a race in the beginning but it is a journey. In some respects the pre weight loss is harder than the post and you are held more accountable in the beginning because of the weigh in's. I was so scared even on surgery morning because until you are laying on that operating table you think that your chance could be snatched away for any reason. I took some of my liquid pain medication the day before surgery cause I had been tapered off my pain medication and we could not take any OTC because of risk of bleeding. Anyway I took a Water pill and some of the liquid Norco my tail bone was hurting so bad not sure why. Oh and I did not give up caffeine either let me tell you the headache from not having caffeine hurt worse than the surgery. Anyway they test you right away when you get admitted for surgery and weigh you. My saving grace was the nurse brought regular tea on my tray rather than herbal lol it was hard but I kept sipping that nasty Lipton tea poof the headache was gone. Not even the high powered pain killers were touching the withdraw headache. In 2007 I tried to get gastric bypass but failed to pass everything, it was way harder then to get accepted. Then the sleeve became a thing so happy I waited. Anyway I am trying to get strict again, slowly being able to eat more and its scary. I still eat 1/2 cup no more than a cup of food per serving. Need to get back to chewing 30xs not drinking, get rid of carbs. Still fight the sugar & carbs. Caught myself drinking from straws, drinking alcohol. So yeah the work continues!!!! Let me know how you are doing. Good luck!

[sarahisgreat 48]

That seems to be the theme, this neverending battle. I know my work is just beginning.

So my scale is way off and I've lost 4lbs since my last weigh in with 10 more to make goal. I go back 10/6 for my psych eval, we shall see where I am by then. I've been doing no carbs or sugar but the NUT insisted I follow pre-op. Scared to add the carbs and starch back into my diet but they are the professionals...

Girl I hear you about the coffee, I gave that up last week and the three-day headache was legit. I need to give up my sparkling Water, this is the hardest thing for me because I love it so. :/ i'll get there.

[kimberb 323]

My surgeon and nutritionist was at the Fresno Kaiser N. Cal. I did my classes thru the Modesto Kaiser N. Cal. We were allowed to weigh in at any Kaiser health center. I was not weighed on day of my psych or nutritionist appointment. The surgeons scale was the one that trumped any other scales. I noted the weight difference between his scale and my home scale. So I always had a pretty good idea what my weight was. Fresno Kaiser let us take off our shoes. It was summer so I was always in flip flops. I weighed myself in different clothes to find the lightest outfit I had and I wore that specific outfit thru my whole process. Even on surgery day. I wanted to stay at least 3 lbs under my surgery required weight. I was so afraid that I'd be above surgery weight. So i gave myself a 3 lbs cushion. My required weight was 227 and on day of surgery I weighed 220. I am almost 8 months out. Starting weight 243 Surgery weight 220. Current weight 159.6
Good luck to you all.

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[sarahisgreat 48]

Thank you very much!

[Smith93636 2]

My surgeon and nutritionist was at the Fresno Kaiser N. Cal. I did my classes thru the Modesto Kaiser N. Cal. We were allowed to weigh in at any Kaiser health center. I was not weighed on day of my psych or nutritionist appointment. The surgeons scale was the one that trumped any other scales. I noted the weight difference between his scale and my home scale. So I always had a pretty good idea what my weight was. Fresno Kaiser let us take off our shoes. It was summer so I was always in flip flops. I weighed myself in different clothes to find the lightest outfit I had and I wore that specific outfit thru my whole process. Even on surgery day. I wanted to stay at least 3 lbs under my surgery required weight. I was so afraid that I'd be above surgery weight. So i gave myself a 3 lbs cushion. My required weight was 227 and on day of surgery I weighed 220. I am almost 8 months out. Starting weight 243 Surgery weight 220. Current weight 159.6
Good luck to you all.

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How was your experience with Fresno Kaiser? I am going to my orientation meeting this Friday excited to see what all is required