PetraLuxor

Yay for you! I'm using Dr. Ponce also. Will you be able to post on the forum while you're there? Hope so! Will be thinking of you.

None for me, I booked the surgery 3 weeks ago, and I'm having it on sunday Purposefully booked it fast so I wouldnt' have time to second guess myself too much!

Did any of you decide to have your doctor go ahead and remove your gallbladder when you had your sleeve surgery? I really don't want to have a gallbladder attack in the future but I also don't want to have to take meds to prevent an attack every day either.

Can you guys post ages with your response also? I think there might be a difference in what a 20 y.o. and those of us age 40 and up might experience. I'm curious to see answers.

completely chicken out before that all important flight to Mexico? Did you have a fear of failure with this surgery? I'm vacillating between being excited and being too scared to get on the plane. My surgery is on Nov. 19th.

Trying to decide on what Vitamins & supplements to go with post surgery. I have read posts on the nutrition section of this forum but I still find myself wondering what Mexico sleevers have been going with. Curious about brand and type (powder, Gummy, chewable, etc.) Thinking of ordering some specific bariatric kind but not sure. Currently, I take One & Only for women which I buy from a Vitamin health food store but the pill is rather large so I'm thinking that won't work directly after surgery. I also take Biotin, alpha lipoid acid and selenium.

New here and need some buddy support from those of you in the Atlanta area or even anywhere in Georgia. Looking forward to chatting. I'm having sleeve surgery on Nov. 19th.

Wow... So inspiring. Thanks for posting.

Hi,

New here and not sleeved yet. For those of you already sleeved, how hard was it to truly change your eating habits post surgery? Did you still have mental cravings?

I did Crossfit for about two years ago back around 2007. I weighed a good bit less then but literally worked my a-- off in order to weigh a good bit less. Working full time and being enrolled in not one but two graduate programs at the same time took all my time and energy so I gave it up and wound up putting my weight back on . It's definitely hard but very satisfying. I miss it and the people there. No way could or would try it now. Hoping to get back there in a few months post surgery. I made the original post b/c I was wondering how sleeved Crossfitters deal with/ perform the intense CF workouts while consuming so few calories. Perhaps, overload on Protein?

Anyone here do CrossFit?

Maybe your new addiction can be the gym.

As having surgery is such an incredibly personal decision, I have decided not to tell anyone. I'm single and have no children so its fairly easy for me to let friends and family think I'm just going on a little Mexican vacation. Is there anyone else here who has chosen not to share this with anyone?

Thanks so much for posting this. I am new here but have been considering surgery for a while now. I have narrowed my surgeon choices down to the following:

Dr. Jamie Ponce de leon

Dr. Lopez & Dr. Osana

Dr. Fernando Garcia

I'm sure you did lots pd research. What exactly made you go with Dr. Ponce???

Congrats on you fabulous progress. You look fantastic!