Susan 2.0

What amount of carbs (goal) do you show on MFP? Just curious.

Oh, me too!!! I am almost giddy with excitement about it!! My cousin's family lives near Carowinds & her husband & boys love going. I'm hoping to get them to go with me next season & I can picture us running from coaster to coaster & me having the wild-eyed look of a child on my face, filled with so much excitement :-D

Hey shelleerenee! I'm in Raleigh, too! I was actually sleeved in CLT, though, because I was self-pay so I couldn't afford Rex or Duke. I hope all goes well for you. Have you joined any of the meetup.com WLS support groups? I'm attending my first one this Saturday.

Try meetup.com to see if you can find some other WLS patients who already have a support group started.

1 have 3: largest is across my navel, the other two are on either side of my navel, closer to my hipbones. Doc said he did them that way so if I have a tummy tuck in the future the scars will be removed with the excess skin.

Best of luck!

I'm back to work today, too. Agree that I'm a little shaky as well, but think I'll be able to make it the whole day. My incisions (or, rather, internal stitches) are talking to me today. They weren't happy with my hilly walks yesterday or having to endure the waistband of my pants today. LOL.

I'm a 1988'er, too. Graduate, that is.

Yes it was!!

Lol! I hid mine, too!

Michelle - I sent you a PM on here

Very close up of my face. May see a tiny bit of my turquoise sweater.

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Has someone created a private group yet for the OctoSleevers? I don't want to miss the link....

Bel, So sorry you had to experience this situation. Since your insurance won't cover your procedure unless it's at your place of employment, please consider going self-pay. I don't know where you live, but please do some research on self-pay options. My ins specifically excludes WLS so I started looking at self-pay. 2 reputable hospitals in my area charge 30k for the surgery so I was discouraged, but I kept looking. I think I found my surgeon here on VST. His practice is 2.5 hours away in a small, private hospital in an affluent area (Lake Norman, NC), the staff there is PHENOMENAL, & was only 12-13k. That's less than I paid for my car and the car will only depreciate. I will continually appreciate my sleeve & good health. Don't give up!! The practice in your place of employment is not your only option. Keep your chin up & I can't wait to hear that you have a surgery date scheduled!!

Jillb - are you sure you're getting enough calories? Your body might be in starvation mode? You may need to up your calories a bit. I can't imagine 2 shakes a day are enough.

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Hey fellow losers! Today was a good day. 1st post-op appt with Doc. I asked them not to tell me my weight today because I didn't want to be discouraged if it was a low loss amount. They obliged but were kind enough to say that I'm doing great & right on schedule. Whew!! I am going to TRY to wait until my 6-week follow-up appt before finding out my loss amount. I just don't want my emotions to be ruled by a scale number. Also, because I'm doing so well with my clear liquids, my NUT said I could move into the thicker liquids 2 days sooner. Yay!! So I had (strained) New England Clam Chowder for lunch. YUMMY. & she said that means by this weekend I can move into puréed foods. Woohoo! Good, good day. I hope all of my fellow Octo-losers are having as great of a day. :-)

I'd be interested as well! Thanks!

1) you could be ok, but better off with 2 weeks. I felt fairly good after a week, but sooo happy to have 2 in order to focus on new way of "eating" & getting fluids in. 2) spend the night @ hospital so they can monitor you. This is MAJOR surgery.

Definitely go with Celebrate chewables. They taste as good when you're finished chewing as when you started. Can't say the same for Opurity (Unjury's brand)

Do a search on the words "my fitness pal" & you'll find many, many threads about MFP & tons of people to add.