MarinaCC

How are our March 4 friends feeling? I pray for peace and calmed nerves as you enter this new phase. I look forward to celebrating with you when you are on the other side. I look forward to joining you.
Next Friday is my date- so far the only one on the 8th. From what I understand, gas pains seem to be the overwhelming complaint. I think I shall come armed with liquid simethicone!:-) For all of you that have had c-sections, understand the importance of the fart- becomes quite the party atmosphere as everything is back in working order!:-) So in an unusual wish for friends- I wish you many easy farts!!!!

Day five of the liquid diet. It is doable, but I am hungry. Last night I dreamed of pizza! I am proud to say that I have not cheated yet, but this is a painful divorce from junk. I am constantly reminding myself why I am doing this and what I am looking forward to: energy to chase my children, feeling sexy with my husband, normal size cloths, and riding roller coasters.

Just came back from my final office weigh in and I've lost 15lbs!!
Surgery is 3/5 and I have 4 more pounds to lose!
Woooohooooo!!!

I got my official surgery date today!! It's sooner than we had "penciled in"... March 18th!! Two weeks from Monday! I'm so excited! We submitted to insurance today as well! My pre op appointment is 3/8, and my EGD is 3/14! It's all hitting home now.... praying for smooth approval and no complications between now and then!

Hi folks, first post here. I have a surgery date of March 22, one week after my 52 birthday, which means for my birthday I get to have a chocolate Optifast shake, yeah!!
Truth be told I'm looking forward to this though there is a lifetime of work ahead of me.

The Vitamin aspect does remain for ever but your body does adapt and you will start to absorb more calories.
There are these little tiny things in your small intestine called villi. They are like fingers that grab up calories and absorb them. When they bypass part of the small intestine, suddenly there are fewer villi in there to suck up the calories.
However, your body quickly figures that out. Crazy isn't it. So your small intestine starts to grow more villi in the part that has not been bypassed. After a while, you may have about the same number you had before surgery so you absorb about the same amount of calories again but you still can't eat enough for all of the vitiamins that you need due to the size of your pouch. So you will need to take vitiamins and Calcium the rest of your life.

So we are 4 days away from needing to put up a March Post Op thread in the post op side yay!

Being back in your own bed is an amazing feeling! (Though I do wish my bed were adjustable like the hospital beds are... it would make reading in bed so much easier)

My surgery date is March 27! This is also my first post!

After surgery you will be constipated as well. I'm on a Facebook group and soooo many conversations are about how happy ppl are cuz they Finally pooped after a week or more out! LoL
HW 341 LW 314.2 CW 299.1 RNY 03/25/13

3 more days til March 1st!!!! Countdown to a new life!!

My tentative date is the end of March so the butterflies have not started flapping in my stomach yet, but I'm sleeping as much as I can before that happens

I’m praying for us all to have successful surgeries, speedy recoveries and available funds on our credit cards to shop until we drop!!!

On day 6 of the Optifast diet and kinda miserable. Saturday was awful, I was starving all day. I finally resorted to a small salad and felt a bit better. Sunday wasn't great either but I wasn't as hungry as yesterday. Maybe I was better with the Water and Snacks. It's all a blurr these days!
Haven't tried the chicken Soup but have almost gone through a box of Tomato Soup. I did add some garlic, onion flakes, Italian seasoning and Parmesan cheese to make it tolerable. Helped a lot and seems to make you feel fuller than the drinks.
I also have been mixing a vanilla and chocolate drink with some ice and a squirt of chocolate Syrup to make "milk shakes" Shared with my boy friend and 3 year old nephew and neither would drink them! Lol. I thought it was pretty good, so it must mean I'm getting used to them!
Sent from my iPad using RNYTalk / surgery date March 5, 2013

I feel the same way, My date is Also April 8 and I too had to go through 6 months of Nutrition classes and all kinds of Doctor's apts., etc. I still have one more Nut. Meeting a week from this coming Wednesday and then it's wait again for the Pre-Op apt. on March 27. All the waiting is so frustrating and when I started back in Oct. I thought it would never get here, but here I am so close and now it's all about getting organized and ready for the hospital stay and such, and yet I don't even have insurance approval yet either. I just can't wait for the surgery part to be over so I can get on with my new life.

I feel I have to clear something up. I say I fibbed my way through nutritional classes but I did not. I was told to maintain and not to loose any weight and not to switch over my diet. mayo is very strict and would not allow me to have surgery if I was not ready. I have not had to chew food to be like applesauce. I've only been told to make peices smaller then the nail on my pinky finger. I feel as thought I've cheated somehow but I have followed every doctor's order to the letter and beyond.

Okay, couldn't really tell by some of the names but from looking through the posts, I didn't see any guys on your list.
Surgery date is 11 March. Start my liquid diet tomorrow. I've read a lot about the nervousness and anxieties about getting closer to the actual date. Gotta tell y'all from a guys perspective it's no different. The scary part for me is about the liquid diet preop. After years of being on the "diabetic roller coaster" ( as one of you ladies put it), I'm really not looking forward to having to check my blood sugars that many more times in a day. Especially in the business setting I work in. Maybe it's a guy thing about showing one of my weaknesses...don't know.
Anyway, aside from all the anxieties I really am looking forward to having a new life. I'd be honored if you'd add me to the list for support and in return I'll offer all the prayers, support and well wishes that I can.
Steevo

Mine are too, they are Optifast. Also allowed Soup, a Protein Bar and sf Jello /Popsicles.

My March buddy's. I have to share and show my post surgery China. No way I can over eat using these.
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Not so much "more" but let me tell you, I am Reallllly looking forward to my "Last Supper" on March 3rd! I already have it all planed out! LoL
HW 330 CW 312 RNY 03/25/13

I'm new to the forums, but I have a surgery date set for March 8. Like everyone else, nervous, but excited at the same time. I look forward to going through the process with people who are going through it too.
For all the people that have told you the terrible gastric stories about WLS and how people gain it back-- Both my sister and my father have had the RNY and both Are doing fabulous. My sister is a size 4 (baggy) and lives a normal life with small food quantities. My father was dying from congestive heart failure, but told him this surgery might save his life, or at least buy him some time. My sister is 6 years post op and my dad is 4! My dad is now hiking and cycling!

Hi rookie, welcome to the site, I am also kind of new, although my profile says "advanced member" LOL, my surgery date is March 11, I can't wait!!!! I have found this site EXTREMELY helpful, you will find all sorts of info. I've actually started shopping so I can be as prepared as possible based on tips I've gotten out of this site, plus stuff my doctor has recommended. Good luck in your journey, all of us pre-ops are anxious to be posting post op experiences. Have fun!