My doctor was adament about explaining how our new pouch is not healed until 3 weeks postop.  Eating ANYTHING prior to complete healing is just too risky.  He explained about temptations, as everyone will get them.  But he also explained what could happen IF we didnt follow our postop instructions to the tee.....the worst being a rupture of the suture line and the resulting peritonitis.    I'll tell ya, he scared the heck out of me enough to make me follow his instructions completely.   That said, I'm currently just beginning some pureed foods, and am enjoying applesauce, grits, cottage cheese, yogurt (especially the whipped type), and cream of wheat.  Who'd have thought those items would "feel" so good.  It's not so much the taste, it's the feel of being able to put a spoon to my mouth with something on it!
Bottom line:  PLEASE immediately start following your doctors instructions.   It's a hard road until we all start eating real food again, but this period will pass, and before long, we'll all be passing recipes back and forth for the real food.
Take care of your new self.

I have BC/BS of NJ. It took about 5 months. 1 month of that was waiting for COBRA to kick in. But  BC/BS requires 6 monthsof doctor supervised weightloss program....I had already been working on that and meeting with a nutritionist monthly, so I had that out of the way. It was just a lot of red tape and paperwork, letters from PCP, letter from nutritionist, etc. Finally, surgery scheduled for next week!

Heidi

Wow! Please tell us about your liver. Why the scarring? Where do you go from here? What a bummer!

I hear your frustration.  It took me two years to reach the weight goal for surgery approval.  I was finally scheduled for surgery on August 31.  When I went for my pre-admission screening, I was told I had to get a hematology clearance because they thought I might have von Willebrand's Disorder.  Long story short - I got the call from the hospital telling me when I had to arrive for surgery.  Hooray!  Then, 20 minutes later, I got a call from the hematologist saying he couldn't clear me because I do have von WIllebrands (a blood clotting disorder kinda similar to hemophilia).  Talk about devastated!  Well...I'm back on for Monday (9/21).  I've been cleared - responded well to the medication.  I think they probably saved my life since I could have hemorrhaged during surgery and they wouldn't have been prepared for it.  I've decided that all the setbacks are just confirmation that this is the route we really want to take.  Hang in there!

awesome good luck with everything and i'll pray for everyone to make a quick and pain free recovery!

please keep me posted on your weight loss!