SweetSusie1

Was sleeved just Wednesday, 6/13... Previous to sleeve water was great, as long as it had ice, I was one happy girl... Now water tastes awful!! In the bottle from the fridge it is all awful!!!!! Any suggestions??

I've been good through all of this... Visits, preop diet, NUT preop, hospital preop, and now that it's finally here I'm nervous!!!!!!!!! Just trying to shake these nerves long enough to sleep.

surgery went well... been walking and now can't wait to get off npo, my throat is so dry! Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

Have you tried body fortress Protien powder? My surgeon recommended it when I told him I couldn't afford advocare... They have a chocolate Peanut Butter that I swear tastes like liquid butterfingers!!!!! He said to thicken it up to add 2 tablespoons of sugar free pudding. Depending on the flavor/ brand of pudding it's about 170 calories for the total (mixed with water) 2g of sugar and 26 grams of Protein, that times 4 is less than your 800 cal goal... Just a suggestion. And geez this weekend was miserable!!! I cried last night and after going to Walmart (3 kids apparently equals no more silverware)... I knew it would be hard, but it is so hard! Jump back on the band wagon!! We can do this!!!

June 13th here!!!

Started my pre-op diet Tuesday, that puts me on day 3... Work is tough (everyone eats at their desks), their food smells sooooooo good! I keep reminding myself that surgery is not an option if I don't keep with it... it's currently working... My husband (the stay at home parent) has had the kids eating dinner before I get home, also a help but I'm not a sweets kinda girl... no no, I got this way on wonderful carbs!!!! All of these sweet protien shakes are going to be the death of me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where are the protien powders flavored pizza or french bread.... come on protien powder people, your totally missing a market here!!! On the upside I'm down 7.3 lbs, what??? I told my husband it was just Water weight, I shouldn't expect this for the remaining time.. He responded with but you have been drinking water.... humm I'll explain later. I've yet to talk to my sister about all of this (she is a little anal (sorry but she is!) and 5'0, 98 lbs, marathon runner) she doesn't understand! I made it facebook oficial today (guess she knows now)... I decided instead of hiding it from people (whats the point they know I'm fat, 474 is not unnoticable!) I would tell everyone... I'm banking if someone sees me put something in my mouth that I shouldn't they will slap my hand or at the very least I will get some awesome prayer warriors on my side through this... My highschool Ag teacher (from 10 years ago) likes my status, I always knew I liked her! My husband and I have a combined total of 3 kids under age 7 in our house! The 7 year old is my husbands and yes, he lives with us (he is a handful, kidney transplant @ 5 years old patient that has had it tough, and his mom wasn't tough enough to handle it) I have a 5 year old, mouthy, sassy, sweet daughter, and we have a 2 year old, I'm finding my place in this world, son. 7 is not my biggest fan, he feels I "stole" his dad from him @ age 3 and still holds a grudge to this day. 5 is my questions kid... why are you drinking that, when are you going to be skinny, why do you think your hungry... etc! She is driving me nuts!!! I can normally handle the questions but today I'm apparently more moody than I thought! 2 is so happy that I gave him a cracker! I love 2 the most today! My husband had dinner with the kids then went out (he is a bit of a local celebrity and had an appearance) leaving me here with the kids.... alone.... asking me questions.... 7 and 5 are not close in age but are close in maturity... we have fought over disney or disney jr, saltines or goldfish (dude, 7, you can't have salt anyway) juice or water... then tears when they found out it was water because mommy is NOT going to open the fridge and tempt things! Oh and best yet, dad didn't give us any desert... you've had dinner and crackers, weren't the crackers desert??? I'll have to admit my kids are normally good, desert can be an apple and they will love you forever, but I'm 474 lbs, apparently I have ZERO will power... these kids are making this harder than I thought it would be! 2 just opened the fridge himself and got his own juice pouch... apparently now 5 and 7 think he is a genius... I've yet to start excercising... I need to get on it... I have a recombent (is that right?) bike that sits next to the back door... maybe once the kids are in bed (they think it is a toy, and that i should be able to "ride" the bike with them in my lap- funny story, I don't have a lap- it goes south quickly). I think I have drank (protien shaked) my sanity away already... fair notice, this woman is crazy!!!

My PCP is a wls patient... he didn't follow the rules (I'm a Dr. I know what I'm doing... ya ya ya) and ended up with a 5 month hospital stay right after the surgery... Since he has dropped weight like crazy and is so happy and healthy!!! He 100% supports me in my wls, but reminds me to follow the rules!!!!! I would be so unhappy if my PCP isn't on board! Find someone new and let the WLS center, that refered you, that this person is not someone worthy of being on their list to pass on!!!!!

I'm so excited and nervous! Walking into my appointment today, I almost turned around! I was so nervous of the "what if's".... What if I'm too big for surgery... what if he thinks I'm not a good fit for the surgery I want... what if he looks at me and tells me I'm not trying hard enough with other options (my mom's suggestion: "Why don't you exhaust all of your other options first honey!") What if he likes everything and first surgery date avalible is in December... what if!!! Thankfully my husband was by my side and I'm too chicken to tell him "lets turn around and hide!" What if nothing! ***Happy "I'm getting surgery" dance!!!!**** (never thought I would be happy about going into surgery willingly! needles *cringe*) He approved me for surgery, he said two weeks of shakes/ less than 1,000 calories a day and surgery on June 13th!!! Bonus: Work is good with the days off, kids are going to hang with my mom and my honey is going to be by my side (he is my rock!) On a side note: The girls in my office are always having some sort of weight loss something going on... I think the current thing is $5 to weigh in each week for 6 weeks and at the end the "biggest loser" gets the "pot". They have always invited me to join in, but at twice their weight I've never been interested in everyone knowing my actual weight. Today they told me they didn't want me to join... that they all knew they would lose!! (this actually makes me happy!) Happy Tuesday everyone!

I work for such a small company and enough of us are overweight that we have a "rider" on insurance policy NO bariatric anything!!!! I was looking into financing, but my father just sold his parents house and currently has the cash to front! So I will be forever in his debt (literally) but at least I will no longer be fat and happy, just HAPPY!