surgery is approx 3 month away, should i be trying to lose weight?

I had some food funerals were I did eat very unhealthy. One thing that did help me is to stop drinking with my meals.I never realized how much I drank while I ate.

I would ask your doctor about the diet part.I would also go to some support meetings.

I think if your doctor required you to loose he would have told you to. I have to loose 10 to 15 pounds in 6 months. Most doctors will put you on a liquid diet before surgery and you will loose some there. That might be all you have to do. But I would start eating right so you can get use to it. Good luck

By all means.  I was diagnosed with diabetes (needed insulin daily) 7 months before the operation, so I started changing my habits to control the diabetes, not as a diet but as a healthy eating thing, and by the time I had the operation I had lost 30 pounds.  After the operation, I haven't felt deprived or anything, because the change was very little --actually, after the operation I've been able to have things I chose not to have before (sugars), so it's been great --and the diabetes is completely gone now (was off insulin already during the optifast pre-op).

Another lady who had the operation on the same day had it tougher quitting bad habits because she didn't start before, so now she feels more the change.  If you can start before, it'll be much better for your health and for how you feel about the operation.