How's everyone doing?

Things are too quiet here and I am wondering about all of you, so give me an update on how things are going. If you are preop, How goes the wait or the fight. If post op, How are you doing. I am definitley a slow loser, but I am losing. I have to be with the amount I am eating. You have to lose eventually on less than 500 cal per day. I am pretty much over the dizziness and the best thing is I am able to ride my real bike for 24 min a day. I am hoping to add 2 or more minutes to that this week. Most food goes down well and tastes good. Except canned tuna. I used to eat it all the time, now it gags me. Beef works really well though. Fresh seafood is good also. My skin is shedding, yep just like a mild sunburn. Large and small flakes all over. I'm sure my hair is soon to follow. So, give us an update so we all know how we all are doing. Diana

I'm here.. I've been thinking the same thing.. It's so quiet.. I'm still doing really well.. I'm still on full liquids post-op, but I go in tomorrow for my post-op & will move to soft/blenderized foods for 2 weeks I think.. I have to make sure tomorrow. Nothing I have ate has really bothered me yet, but there's not a whole lot I can eat either.. Looking forward to tomorrow where I can expand my food choices. Hope everyone else is still doing well, hope to hear from you all soon.

I was so glad to get to real food. I haven't had any trouble at all, but I chew everything to death. I got to start foods within 2 weeks, first soft, soups etc, but I was eating real meat by the end of the 3rd week. My Dr is pretty good at letting you procede as you can tolerate. I ate a lot of yougurt, cottage cheese and refried (homemade) to begin with. Just take is easy and only try one new thing at a time and chew forever as soon as you get something to chew. I even chew cottage cheese forever. LOL I just ate some chilli my hubby made yesterday. Heavy on hamburger and light on beans and very thick so it is dense with protein. Yummmy. I just can't drink the glass of milk and have a piece of bread with it like I used to. But, I am so stuffed I couldn't hold it anyway. See what happens when I don't have to work. I talk forever. Are you getting in all your water? I can't believe that I actually have bones in my ankles. That is from drinking my water. No more swelling. and my migraines have decreased drastically. Diana

Ive been doing great, just learning what my lil pouchie will tolerate. I can pretty much eat anything I want but have noticed my taste has changed. I sleep a lot, I usually walk 1 mile each day early in the morning then I rest/relax the rest of the day. Ive been taking biotin in hopes that my hair will not fall out or at least not be so bad. Im having a problem with not drinking while I eat, that has been the hardest thing for me, it kills me lol I do wait the 30 min before I eat and after I eat before I drink anything its just hard anybody else have that problem? Other than that Ive been doing pretty good. Glad to hear you other ladies are doing good. I will continue to keep everybody in my prayers thats the best medicine for us Hugs Donna S. Ft. Stewart GA

You're right- it has been pretty quite. Well I am doing fine. I am a little excited. I go to see my doctor tomorrow to set my date for surgery. I am really exctied about that. A girl I work with has had gastric bypass and she looks GREAT. She is 6 months out and has lost 120 pounds. She has been my inspiration and my supporter. She has told me what to expect and what to look forward too. Like I said before- she looks great. She is down to a size 14 from a 26. She told me that she has never felt this good. She said that she thought she was supposed to always feel bad. I have never wanted this more. I know it is just getting my date, but that puts me even closer. Wish me luck. * Quick question: how long did you guys have between setting your date and having your surgery? I have heard 4 weeks, 2 weeks, even 2 days. Just curious.

I understand your excitement. I couldn't wait. I waited 1 1/2 week. It was just enough time for me to get done what HAD to be done. I am feeling better than I have in a long time and I am sure it will get better every week. Even if I only lose 6-8 lbs a month, I will be a whole lot smaller in 6 months than I am now. And that is a lot better than gaining 4-6 lbs a year. I do wish you all the luck in the world and I hope your date is really soon. Diana

Hi Diana, well I am still crossing t's and doting I's when it comes to surgery. Tomorrow I have my physical theropy class and nutrition class. It is two hours long...but I am so glad to be knocking out two classes that I have to have in one day. Next it will be my psyc. evaluation that is on Monday Sept. 24th.(that is the last of the appointments I have to have.) The coordinator for the Dr. I am seeing says it usually takes two weeks for psyc. evaluations to be turned in. After paperwork is submitted it usually only takes 48 hours for Tricare to approve. ( Go firgure) I am thinking that my surgery will be sometime in November. If I am very lucky maybe toward the end of October. I shall trudge on. I will just be glad to get all the appointments out of the way...of coarse then comes the waiting game. Jaye Jaye

Glad to hear you are getting the appointments done. That will feel good. It is getting all the reports in that seems to take the most time. Waiting is the hard part. But you are almost there. Hang in there it will happen soon. Diana

Hi Diana, Well, I am going this Saturday to the seminar, and then I will be able to schedule the consult. I did more research this past weekend after finishing my homework. YouTube is amazing...I searched Bariatric, and I watched three different webcasts of lap RNY's! It gives you a better understanding of the procedure to watch one actually in progress (there is hardly any blood). Drawings just dont do the proceedure justice. I even came up with some really good questions for the doctor and how he does the proceedure. I am shooting for surgery in mid November We are getting our final week of summer here in the Chicago area, and soon the snow will be a flying.

Sounds like you are really getting the ball rolling. You are right, it is just about bloodless. they can't get blood on the camera or they can't see, and everything is cauterized as it is cut. Now that is bloodless unless you ooze after like I do. I lost at least 2 pts of blood. Go figure. It always happens to me because my platelets don't work very well. It stops in time and I have never been in real danger. I am afraid to have a tummy tuck, etc because of it however. Questions are good and every dr has their own little things they do so it is good to know how your surgeon goes about the surgery and another thing to ask is Who is the assisting surgeon. The assistant is very important in laproscopic surgery. I hope we get some snow here. Most people think Idaho is cold, but we have a very mild climate here. I usually have my garden until at least mid Oct. and once It didn't freeze until Thanksgiving. We are in the "banana belt" here. Wish I could grow bananas here. The rest of Idaho is much colder, except up north around Lewiston. When the snow flies in Chicago, I will think of you and how you are freeezing and shoveling. Diana