Focus on the small changes and the success they bring. My program had me make small changes and make them stick and then more small changes and that Builds success...and remember, even the smallest step forward means you're not where you were.

Nobody can tell you how to stay positive through the whole journey. Take it one day at a time. Stay positive for 24 hours. If that is too big a chunk take it for a few hours at a time. Keep a journal, read about weight loss and health, take up new hobbies, work with a therapist, find exercise you can do, set goals, get support from others. Getting healthier will make a difference but start working on positivity every day.

Only 11 days out is way too early to be getting "buyer's remorse". It was around that time I was pounding walls, yelling at people (inc. my surgical concierge) and wondering WTH have I done to myself (or even whether my surgeon knew what he was doing and possibly messed me up inside). It's like suddenly having your jaws wired shut, as far as your food intake goes -- that's the best way I could describe that phase of the surgery. Eventually, you and your body will adjust to the procedure, you'll have more confidence in it and what's going on, esp. as you see the pounds fall off. Soon your mood will swing just the opposite way and you'll be so glad you went through it. Keep the faith!

Curious as to whether they will pick up the cost of the revision surgery (i.e. as "compensation for their participation") or whether that is on us, if you know? If the production co. covers the cost, this would be an excellent opportunity for members who need the surgery to have it done, either w/o ins. or whose ins. co. refuses to cover it.

IMHO, it's a joke and just a new way for docs to make the same $$ w/o having to do as much work as before. As I told my doc (of 20+ years, btw), I need to be physically EXAMINED .. to listen to my heart and lungs, take my pulse (and not just the rate ) .. You can't do that over a T.V. monitor (or a "phone conference", like I'm set up for ) .. And I"m having disturbing symptoms in those areas, inc. a fast heart rate (may be related to my a-fib? ~~~^v~~~^v~~~ ) Still, we're at a proverbial Mexican standoff - if I don't let him do the phone thing (and pay him his usual office $$ fee, of course - I don't have ins., btw) then he's not going to renew my meds (for high b.p., mild diabetes and depression). So, when my meds ran out, they ran out .. Have been off them for many months now, and in some ways actually feel better (although not so good in others) .. In the meantime I have also discovered online places (e.g. Ultalabs) that I can get not only my usual blood tests ordered from but any others I feel I need w/o a doctor's prescription, and at less $$ than I was charged by having the draws done in his clinic. I then fax the results over to my doc's to be put in my chart for future reference (i.e. when he finally is wiling to see patients again in person). In that regard, so far so good .. (although my Ferritin level is very low, but then it has been that way since almost the beginning of my DS, despite heavy supplementation for it ). One thing I discovered is that, w/o the gram of Metformin a day in my "diet", my A1c only increased from 6.1 to 6.6, still well below the 7.0 important "marker". Sounds like there was no need for me to even be on it the past dozen or so years, and no telling what damage it may have done to my liver and in those other ways that are coming out in the media now about that medication. If I jus****ched my carb intake I could probably drop it below 6.0 once again, like it was right out of WLS. So, if I develop some new, disturbing symptoms or my blood tests show something new going askew, I'll head to the county hospital's ambulatory care clinic (although it's packed of late with Covid patients ) .. Otherwise, I'm O.K..