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I use myfitnesspal.com. It's free, and they also have an app.

Oh nice. Thanks for your support. :-)

That's wonderful news.... ( feels weird saying that) so glad you can have the surgery now.

That is great news that you will be able to be getting your lapband! Im sure you sleep apnea will improve and you will be a very successful bandster!

Great news .. ish !

No need to feel like u are being confrontational, just ask them if there is a problem with them getting through to u on the phone, maybe they are trying to avoid times u will be sleeping as u work nights you need information to make this part of the process go smoothly and tick all the boxes u have to, so be direct in what u ask without the confrontation.. That way you are taking control of your own destiny good luck !

Sometimes it's all in wording. Call your insurance co and ask them to send you all criteria needed for approval of that surgery. I'm in med field and we have these problems getting pt approved for med nec procedures until we get the info from insurance to find the buzz words they are looking for. You would be surprised what one little word different in your wording will get you. Good luck to you!

The dietitian told me to take one multivitamin and calcium citrate with D (500 mg three times a day).

Im sitting here this morning reading everyones thoughts as sip down my very first pre-op Protein Drink. I really didn't need to start until tomorrow, but wanted to make sure I had a Protein powder I could drink. I went with Jullian Micheals. It not too bad. But really I have nothing to compare it to yet. I wanted to make something like a starbuck foo-foo drink and I think it was pretty good. I started with 1.5 scoops of Protein I mixed with 4 oz coffee (i have a keurig coffee machine and love the Butter Toffee--made 12oz, but only used 4oz. that way I have some for tomorrow), 6 oz of skim milk, 1/2 oz vanilla sf syrup, 1/2 caramal syrup, 2 truvias (sweetner) and 6 ice cubes. I blended in a blender. It actual was really good! I can see where its only to be hard to get these shakes down after surgery. I have been drinking this one for about 20 min. Iam so full I don't want another sip, but I still have about 3oz to go.----ugh I hope when I talk to my doctor on thursday he will let me try the powders with collagen in them. I think those will add a lot of variety. Anyway , Let the count down begin....15 days until the big day. oh yeah----I found the sf syrups at SAM'S Club they were only $4 for a huge bottle!! Walmart had some by the same company 1/4 the size for the same price.

Add variety to what you do, this is very important. For exercise to be effective at improving your fitness or helping you to lose weight, it must be progressive... get slightly more challenging or different each time you do it. Strength training is very important. The more muscle you have the faster your metabolic rate will be. Finally, if the rest of your life is quite sedentary, you will struggle to lose weight. You need to get more active ALL the time. I've found that regular walking combined with resistance training is one of the fastest ways to lose large amounts of body fat. But walking in chunks throughout the day and not simply sauntering, be in a rush to get somewhere.