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Sending good wishes for your big day!!! Please let us know how you are doing when you can

I bought from Wal-Mart Professional Strength whey Protein Plus Elite Series triple chocolate flavor. Calories 160 total fat 2g Total Carb 8g Fiber .5g Sugars 3g Protein 26g Says can be mixed with Water or skim milk. Granted the skim milk will add calories/fat etc. Has anyone tried this before? My doctor wants me to use shakes to supplement meals. I can have 300 calorie high protein meals twice a day. My goal is to loose 10lbs before surgery. I'm finally DONE with the food funeral. Its time to get serious. I just needed some time to prepare myself mentally for what I'm about to do. My son is leaving for Europe June 1 for ten days. He is 17 and will require me to help him pack etc. I'm not sure if I should have the surgery before he leaves or wait until after. I feel like if I have it before I might not be of much help to him getting him ready to go. I dunno, I know its kind of a weird thing to post, but its one of the things the is a huge factor in deciding my surgery date. I'm lucky in the fact my 2 teenage daughters will be out of school this week and are more than willing to help me with aftercare and helping to take care of my younger children (ages 7 &3) while I recover. My husband is also a gem and is willing to do whatever needs to be done. My gut/intuition tells me June 6. Guess I will see what my doctor says. Leanne

I desperately need a new set of scales. What I have now is a Health-o-meter Digital. Maybe I should stay away from the digital and get the old school kind. I can weigh myself 3 different times within a few minutes and it will be around a 5lb difference. This will make me crazy lol!

RUN to the ER!!!!!!! Keep us posted when you can.

I'm having surgery soon...like within the month and I'm trying to prepare myself for "Hell Week" and beyond. Please share your experiences with post op pain and nausea. Which was worse and how long did it last? I'm kind of a wimp when it comes to pain and an even BIGGER wimp dealing with nausea. Thanks

Congrats! As a fellow self payer I understand. I got my money to have the surgery rather suddenly and unexpectedly. I'd wanted to have it done for the past 2 years but never thought it would happen. Now that it is about to happen I'm freaking out a bit as well!

I'm having surgery PROBABLY next month. For some reason I'm eating every SINGLE thing that crosses my mind. Its getting ridiculous. It's like Last Supper X 10. Did anyone else do this? My surgeon doesn't require for me to loose a certain amount before surgery but would be happy if I lost around 10. I also need to exercise. I'd like to loose around 20lbs and be able to walk a mile easily before surgery, so maybe the post op won't be so hard. What's funny (or not) is before I met with the surgeon I really didn't eat much at one time..I was a snacker. But now I'm having pretty big meals. Its like with each meal I'm saying goodbye to it. I know I'll be able to eat again. Has anyone gone through something like this?

I'm using Dr. Redmann. Don't know if he is the best or not, but I've heard nothing but good things about him. He performed my sister n laws gastric bypass and she has done incredibly well. He's near N.O.

I'm hoping to be sleeved middle of June. I'm from MS but plan on using Dr Redmann in Slidell. If anyone knows anything about this group please share. Also if you've been a pt of Dr Redmann I'd like to hear from you as well. I've met with the nurse practitioner and really liked her. I'll have a meeting with the surgeon once I'm all cleared for surgery from my PCP. I'm a self pay patient and from what I understand I don't have to jump through a zillion hoops to have this surgery (Thank God). Any info would be wonderful!!! Thanks!

So glad to see your update! I hope things continue to go well and the pain goes away! Looking forward to joining you on the losers bench next month.

I too worry that when I get back from surgery she is going to think "OK..so how come you haven't lost weight"?? LOL

Well according to my "homework" list all I have left to do is get my PCP's medical release. She's been gently suggesting this surgery to me for the past year, so I'm guessing that it won't be a problem to get. Let me just say I go from "hell no I'm not doing this to my body" to "this is going to be such a wonderful thing for myself and family". The rollercoaster of emotions is wearing me down. I've become totally obsessed with visiting online forums and watching YouTube videos. I want to know everything I can about it....Good Bad & Ugly. I think I made a mistake yesterday by telling my 7 year old daughter a bit about the surgery. Let me go back and say she is so worried about my weight and I think it really bothers her. A kid at her school told her "You have a fat mama" last week......broke my heart..tore it up. I'm not the person I want to be...I have zero energy....and I know its for the best to go ahead with the surgery. Anyway, she saw my Protein drinks in the fridge and wanted to drink them. I had to tell her those were my special drinks I need before my surgery, but I'd be glad to get her something else. She said "Just what are they going to do to your stomach anyway?". I was lost for words...I didn't want to totally freak her our...so I just said "well, they are going to reduce the size of mommy's tummy so I can eat less and be healthy." Of course she wanted more details....so I told her they would remove a portion of it. Her eyes got big as saucers.....then she promptly said "Well, if its going to make you healthy then go for it"! Since then she has been asking lots of questions...the first one being "Maybe you can just go on a diet and loose the weight then you won't have to have the surgery??" Oh how I wish it were that easy. Maybe I shouldn't of said anything to her, but I feel that its important for my kids to know whats going to be happening. All of my kids are very healthy. I've been uber paranoid that my kids would/will have a weight problem so I make sure they have healthy meals and Snacks. I just pray they don't end up like me...on insulin @ 37..oral diabetes meds for 4 years..and 100lbs overweight. Fellow parents, how did your kids react to your surgery? Has your lifestyle change been hard on them? Thanks

Megin NOLA, I'm still pre-op and I'm guess from your handle you are in New Orleans? My doc is Dr Redmann in Covington but I'm having surgery in Slidell. If you know anything about this group can you message me? I'm sorry to hijack the thread but I'm new to the forum and am still learning how to use it Thanks

Best of luck tomorrow! Hope you have a speedy recovery! I'll be watching for your updates

Congrats!! I'm glad things are going well for you! Hopefully by mid-June I'll be able to write a similar post

I'm probably going to be the week of June 6th.