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Hey Tiffykins, I am at this same stage full liquids and I am trying to find some different things to eat cause I am hungry and sick of yougurt and pudding. I don't care much for canned Soups either. Do you have any suggestions? Do you think it would be okay to put some potato soup in the food processer and eat a bit of that? Thanks for your help!

Oh my gosh I needed that laugh so bad, thank you! I get sleeved on Tuesday so I havent lost a ton of weight but I have lost 44lbs. and I think 10 of it was in my boobs. I've been describing mine as a withered up baloon that's sat in the sun and lost all it's air. I don't know when all is said and done I just might change my views on breast inplants.

After I read you post last night I sent my Kaiser surgeon an email and asked if they do that and if so if I could be a candidate for it. Well my surgeon is out until Monday so his collegue responded with a very vague response "yes it can be done but it has more risks involved, if you would like more info ask Dr. Fisher next week". Do you happen to know what the extra risks are? Thanks for your time. Sara

Hi welcome to VST and congrats on your great weight loss. May I ask did you have your surgery with Kaiser?

Hey there i just watched this dateline story about the sleeve and this Dr. does it on an out patient procedure, mostly becuase of the cost. It's a good article. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/surgery-vertical-sleeve-gastrectomy-11968867

Sorry I didn't see your post until now. You do not have to be a Kaiser member to go to the bariatric support group, it's for anyone. the next meeting will be November 25th at 11:00. Since it's so close to Thanksgiving they decided to make it a healthy (for bariatric surgery patients)[ potluck, so if you can bring something great, if not don't worry about it. I most likely will not bring anything as I will only be three weeks out from surgery. They also have a great clothing exchange, where members bring anything that they dont like or no longer fits and then everyone if free to go through the stuff (which is seperated by size) and take what they need. quote name=feedyoureye' timestamp='1287668311' post='86980] Im no longer with Kaiser, do they check IDs? Do you know where at point west the meeting is being held?

Hey all my fellow Sac Girls, I think the Point West support Group is this Saturday from 11:00-1:00. Can everyone do that? I think that would be a great place for all of us to meet, than maybe we can do coffee or something after that?

I would love to meet too, I'm down for whatever. Does everyone have weekends off?

Hey Sac Girl, I live in North Highlands and I am having my surgery November 2nd in Richmond by Dr. Fisher. What a trip that we're all so close together. I would love to meet up with you guys too if you don't mind? We're about the same size too, I started at 252 and my goal was 220 and I'm at 208 now.

Hi Thickinphilly, are you sure I didn't just write your post? Cause I swear that the exact same thing just came out of my head! I am having my sleeve done November 2nd and I have changed my lifestyle drastically in the last 4 months, so much so that I have lost 44 pounds! But I have still been unable to give up my icecream, I could eat it all day long and eat nothing else and feel so satisfied. I bet I could have lost a ton of weight had I just given up my cecream. Thankk God I found a really good light version, half the fat, a third of the calories.

Wow it suprises me that Dr. Baggs wouldn't recommend VSG for you! The whole time that I have been considering WLS I had my heart set on Gastric Bypass, never did the thought of VSG cross my mind until Dr. Fisher said that he preferred I have the sleeve. His concern was similar to Dr. Baggs, he though I was too yound to have gastric bypass, that I would most likely have problems later in life associated with malabsorption and that my BMI was considered lower so the sleeve was more appropriate. It kind of scares me now because they are collegues, they perform their surgeries together but they both have different views on what is best for their patients. urgggggggg, I guess I'm gonna have to talk to Dr. Fisher again! Oh well, I'm set on the sleeve, everything that I know now about gastric bypass now I would rather not have WLS that have that procedure done. I know how excited you must be right now, I am right in front of you with Kaiser's process. Good luck and take care.

Hi Lindsey, Once you reach your goal and you have it recorded in Kaiser's computer system you call them and they will set up lab work and an EKG, both of those are done on a walk in basis so you don't have to wait for an appt. Make sure if you have ever been a smoker that you tell them to order the nicotine test cause this held me up for two weeks. I went to my PCP's at Point West on 9/10 to do a weight check and thats when I found out I was at goal. I went directly from there and called Richmond they set up the labs and EKG I went right back and had those done, it was late on a Friday so I had to wait until Monday to contact Richmond again. Once all your labs are done Sara will set you up with an appt with the case manager, mine was on 10/4, my surgery is scheduled for 11/2. I will have to go back to Richmond one more time before the surgery date on 10/21 for a 4 hour pre op class and a physical. So if your looking to get a date during Christmas break I think you should be right on schedule for that. Good luck getting to goal as quick as possible!

Screw her! If she doesn't like you now you don't want her anyway! My husband is extremely good looking, he could get most any girl he wanted but yet he chose me at 220 pounds, he saw my inner beauty and that's what he fell in love with. I have no idea why but for some reason he is feeling insecure about me having surgery and losing more weight and I say to him "baby when i get skinny why on earth would I leave you for some idiot that wouldn't look twice at me right now". I don't want someone like that, I know that no matter what my husband will be there for me, he will love me, want me, and treat me like a queen regardless if I was 600 pounds bald and toothless because he loves me not my shell. Of course he tells me now that he loves my body but I can't wait to treat him with my future body. I honestly think that we are all very lucky that we had an oppurtunity to be fat in our lifetimes because it has forced us to wow people with what we have inside, fat people almost always have better personalities because most of us feel that we have to compensate for whatever we feel we are lacking. I'm sorry that Im rambling your note just struck a nerve in me, must have been all the teasing I endured in school or something. Take Care, Sara