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Three years out....stomach still sounds like deep water sea creatures mating.

First pic is me on Christmas in 2018 and second pic is me in early December 2020 (I was at my highest weight in the first pic and around 208 in the second pic)

Curious what changes (if any) folks made to their diet while waiting for their surgery date? I'm trying to make some changes now so adjusting to a new lifestyle won't be quite as dramatic after surgery. I want to set myself up for success as much as possible. So far I have done the following: - cut way back on my coffee (only one cup caffeinated every other day) - water intake up to 100 ounces a day - tracking my food and limiting carbs to less than 120g a day - trying to teach myself to eat 5 times a day instead of 3 (this has been a big change because I had finally gotten used to only eating 3 times a day...my new program wants folks eating 5 times a day so something is eaten every 3-4 hours) - focusing on protein first - cut fast food down to 2 times a week - cut out alcohol - adding in walks, though not consistently yet Any thing else I can do to help prepare myself more for this new lifestyle?

I was thst post diet. i started to drink body armor lyte daily. with electrolytes. and my potassium was low and my Dr said those two things would make me feel that way. Sent from my SM-N986U using BariatricPal mobile app

Congrats! Woot!

I had plastic surgery in early January. My surgeon said not to get the vaccine 30 days before or after surgery. Reason being, a vaccine creates an immune response with possible inflammation which can impede healing. I’m a nurse at a large public health hospital and was able to talk to our doc heading up the COVID response team. He agreed this is best practice. I ended up getting my first vaccine just shy of 4 weeks post op and did just fine.

I have tried them and they tasted pretty good. What my wife and I really did was we took a prepackaged soup ( (broth based progresso, cambells, etc.) and we strained them during preop. This helped us with the flavor as they were seasoned well. You could argue that these have a lot of salt, but we didn't do more then 1 or two a day and when I went in for my preop blood test, my electrolytes and salt were still low.

Hey I am so happy to hear you are doing well. Did you talk to your doctor about the swollen abdomen? Did that just happen? I wonder how it feels not to have hunger. Not too long for me now omg lol

it depends on your surgeon. I wasn't allowed to eat any of that --- just protein shakes (4-5 a day), clear broth, ultra-low or no-calorie beverages (with no caffeine), V8/tomato juice (although I think we were limited to a cup of this a day), and sugar free popsicles and sugar free Jello