trenai77

Well I had my first fill and I definately have noticed the difference in what I have been able to eat. The nurse practitioner advise me to stay away from fried foods and keep up the exercise, do far I have seen the scale move little by little. So I try to stick with just protein like fish, chicken, or turkey and a vegetable and I drink my protein shakes and have yogurt and cut veggies for snacks. And I've been doin my best to stay set from bread and rice.

Thanks for the advice every one. I think right now since I haven't had my first fill yet, I have to be really disciplined so I don't over eat. But I going to start drinking alot more water and up my protein shake intake and see of that cuts my appetite and gets the scale moving down. I have my first fill this week Wednesday so we will see.

I am having the same problem. I've been working out 5 days a week but the scale is going the opposite way. I was wondering of I should up my calories to see what happens. Suggestions on some more meal ideas would be helpful.

Had my surgery, having a rough time with nausea and vomiting and cramping. At times I don't even feel like drinking any thing. Trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Was banded yesterday and I have not been able to stop this feeling and throwing up. Since I haven't ate any thing, it's just mucus and saliva. Has any one else's experienced this and what should I do to help it.

My surgery day is finally here! I have a 10am appointment. Feeling a little anxious, I hope I have lost an acceptable amount of weight on my preop diet, we will see.

Ok cool, I'm hoping this is the last step of clearances that I will need. I have an appointment with the GI doctor tomorrow, so hopefully I can get this upper EDG in time for my pending surgery date on the 9th.

Thanks every one for the encouragement. I feel better today about it after talking to my advocate. My new surgery date is March 9th pending every thing is ok with my procedure. I guess the anticipation go the best of me.

Was your surgeon perhaps, Dr Hollis? Because I had a consult with him and he mentioned that we would be doing post op at his office. I thought I was under the impression that I had to go through True Results since I was self pay. I wish I would have done a little bit more research.

I tried to call my advocate back but we missed each other. So I plan on calling her back tomorrow. I had to do a pulmonary clearence and they made sure to tell me ahead of time and I got that done. But to wait two days before my surgery to tell me I need to have a procedure done, not just a referral letter but a full procedure done with a specialist, does not sit very well with me. I am self-pay and I can easily pull out but of course I would have to start all over with another facility. I've been on the pre-op diet for two weeks no one bothered to look over my chart to see if I needed any thing else. I'm just really upset about the whole thing right now.

I am going through True Results and they are really frustrating me right now. My surgery was originally scheduled for 2/24 but got a call today and have to go get an upper endoscopy done with a GI doctor. I am not happy that they waited two days before to tell me I need another clearence. I'm beginning to wonder are they the best one's to go through, seems a disorganized.