JayhawkJess33

Hang in there - I'm right there with ya! My surgery is tomorrow so I am on my last day of my liquid diet and I have found it to be SUPER HARD! It hasn't helped that I have had to prepare all the food for my kids all week and have it right there in front of me when I am starving! I haven't managed more than 500 calories a day any day of the liquid diet so I am also quite tired. I know after surgery I am supposed to try and stay above 900 calories once I am healed and into the swing of regular food but I wasn't given a calorie range to stay in for the liquid diet. Only a guideline of things I could have. Good luck to you - you can do it!!

I LOVE this post! It is so upbeat and bubbly and, most of all, inspirational!! For everyone on this journey, and especially those of us yet to be sleeved, it is so wonderful to see the real life impact that the sleeve has had on you. Thanks so much for posting - I will be sleeved one month from today and hope I am as successful as you have been! You look beautiful!

I am a stay at home mom and run an online business so I will slow down some but won't have an actual "return to work". My surgeon suggests 2 weeks off for most jobs and says that most people feel fine to return by that point or before. I won't be sleeved until 3/20 so I can't comment from experience but that is what he tells me and I trust him completely to be realistic and honest. Having said that, if I was returning to a regular job I would feel comfortable with 9 days off after as long as the job wasn't too physical.

HTH!

Yay!! Congrats on your sleeve - sounds like you are doing fantastic! Take it easy and update us as you feel able! Can't wait till I am right there with you!

That all sounds great - I do think that is a pretty reasonable price. Dr. Domkowski that I am going with is $12,500 and Dr. Kim at Florida Hospital Celebration was around $16,750 for self pay. I, too, considered Mexico and really thought long and hard about Dr. Aceves as he has been doing WLS for so many years and is very respected in bariatric circles but in the end, I just didn't feel great about traveling to Mexico and then not being close to my surgeon if I would have complications later. Plus, I feel SUPER confident in my Dr. He is wonderful and his former patients have nothing but wonderful things to say about him, as well as the nurses from the hospital that he does his surgeries in. I believe I have to do a one-week liquid diet before my surgery but of course I will have all the ins and outs next week when I meet with him again! I am so very excited to get started. It can't get here fast enough for me. I am SO up for the challenge..........

I just can't believe where I have let myself get to....It truly affects every facet of my life, both physically and mentally. I let it interfere in everything. I have about 127 lbs. (from my highest weight) to lose to get to my goal weight of 160 - although, to be honest, I have no idea where I will actually be at that weight because it has been so many years since I saw that number. I think I will have to wait till I get closer and re-evaluate. I'm tall (5'10") so I have to keep myself from looking so much at what other people's goal weights are and know that I just can't go that low.....really I just want to be healthy and comfortable in my own skin. I'm lucky enough to not have health problems (no high blood pressure, no high cholesterol, no sleep apnea, etc...)

Wonderful!! That is SO exciting! I live in Orlando and looked into several doctors, one being Dr. Jawad. I have ended up choosing Dr. Domkowski in Sebastian. I am scheduled for my surg. consult, psych eval and nut appt all in the same day so I am hoping to be able to go ahead and schedule my surgery that day as well (I am also self-pay). My husband has several business trips coming up in late February and early March (of course, since that is really when I wanted to be free to schedule my surgery!) so I will have to work around that but am so very anxious to get a date and get this journey started for real! I am doing a self-imposed pre-op diet which is really just tracking my food, lower carb, higher protein, getting in ALL of my water every day and exercising some. I figure if I can take some off now, that is less I will have to take off after surgery and I like the goal-oriented nature of it. I have lost 11 lbs. so far in just over 2 weeks and would like to have a total of 25 lbs. off by surgery day. Do you have to do a liquid diet before your surgery? If you don't mind my asking, what is Dr. Jawad's self-pay price?

Maybe we can be sleeve buddies since we will be so close together for surgery time

So very very exciting! I am hoping for a date next month and I know I will be BEYOND excited when I am as close as you are! We will all be thinking of you - check in and update us when you are able!