Hi Danette, How is day two of the liquid diet going? I know you can do it! Keep at it and keep that beautiful skinny you in your mind and what the finished product will be. Rooting for you and very excited for you as well.

 I thank you for your comment ..........I am not sure if you really read my post......and I don't want to be negative here but I really CANNOT exercise........I can barley stand for more than 10 minutes due to my weight.........the only thing I can do it go to the pool but that takes money which I DO NOT have as I cannot find work due to being overweight..........

If I had the money to afford the surgery I would have been on a plane in Mexico having the VSG without having to wait for 6 months and jumping through hoops to get a surgery that I NEED so that I can live my life and be employed and see my son get married and have grandchildren...........

The Arthristis is so bad in my knees....that is both of them.......that it takes me almost 1 1/2 hours to get ready in the morning.........I have difficulty walking to the bathroom and other various problems I dont' want to discuss here.......I am very short 5'4" and weigh over 325 lbs....placing my BMI in the 50's................I have struggled for 20 years with my weight...........all sorts of diets and exercise programs which have put ON the weight........I am done the diet route........

I know I have to make changes when I have the surgery and I am prepared to do so, but I also need a tool that will help when I am losing weight.............I am not looking for a cure.....I am looking for a solution so that I can live to see my 80's instead of dying in 20 years due to my morbid obesity........

Why is it that obesity is the last acceptable form of discrimination......blaming someone for being obese and assuming that diets will work is a little bit like blaming someone for being short.........I have no control........Medically my body is against me.....in less than 1 year in my 20's I gained over 100lbs.....and that was eating SALADS and Exercising........PCOS is not nice and it interferes with anything that you attempt to do.............VSG surgery is the only surgery that Cures PCOS by 80%.........I can't afford not to try as my next step is a wheelchair waiting for Knee surgery which they won't give me because I am severly overweight....................

I want a chance to live......that is all I am asking.........and since I can't be accepted for financing for the surgery in Mexico I now have to wait for Regina to approve me and jump through all the hoops and wait and pray that I am not in a wheelchair or dead before I get my surgery.............and pray that my body doesn't fight against me...............

this for me if life or death..............I would rather have the first than the latter............

The Bariatric surgery program in Regina is the only one that I know of that now doing vsg and rny.

R5673....you are totally right.  WLS is not the cure, simply a tool....a great tool if we use it properly but sadly, all the issues, mental and otherwise that got us to super morbidly obese do not go away with the surgery.  I have had two surgeries and and still not at my goal weight.  I still have at least another 100 lbs to lose.  It is a daily ongoing struggle...that does not change.  On a positive note, having surgery was the very best thing I have ever done for myself.  Even though I have a long way to go, I feel sooooo much better than I did 2 years ago and that is a blessing.

Good luck to everyone on their journey!!!

 I am hoping that the co-mobidities I have and the fact that my arthritis in my knees are so bad that it is starting to interfere with my daily living will help along with a few other things that are happening will help push me up.....I wonder if my BMI being so high may do it as well.  I tried to get funding to go to Mexico for the surgery there, but unfortuntly I was not approved so when I saw this post and that SK was doing the surgery I figured I would wait as long as I needed to to get the surgery....hopefully before I have to sit in a wheelchair...............

I started a food journal yesterday.....and told my family that I am going to do what I need to do to get the surgery....they are behind me 100%......this has been a long time coming for me....I have been looking for an answer for 15 years.......and it will be nice to have others to talk to who are in a similar situation.........

I am so glad you have a clinic date for August......I am so ready as well for the process to begin......but the only surgery i am having is the VSG as I think it is far superior to the others....that and with being as big as I am I am not fond of being cut wide open on a table and having my organs rearranged.....small incisions around my belly I am totally okay with.......

I have a friend that went to Mexico in January......and she was about a size 24......she is now shopping in the regular stores and has lost over 60lbs....that is so awesome.........I am going to do whatever I have to do to make sure this surgery works....as I never want to have surgery again......LOL....unless it is to tuck a few things into place.....LOL

Vanessa