OleHippieGal

yes but good luck, I start my pre op diet Monday the 24th, my surgery is the 31st, shake for break fast, shake for lunch, and some sort of a lean cuisine or smart one or a healthy choice for dinner, you can also grill you a chicken breast or lean cut of beef, have salad, or raw veggies, inbetween meals 1 to 2 times daily 1/2 cup of cottage cheese, 1 or 2 ozs of some type of Jerky,, low fat string cheese, no sugar, no white bread, no Pasta, no potatoes, no corn ect, due to starch and carbs. I think all of this is still really good, you wont starve, and still can chew something

yes first your PCP should have your 5 year weight loss if you been going to the same one, UHC doesnt make you go 6 months diet, at least they didnt make me, it wasnt required. I did have to have the psych, evaluation to make sure I was prepared, the blood test that the surgeon orders should have your thyroid test included cause you do have to have it done. UHC is paying 80 % of mine, but yes I had to pay my co pay up front, it cost me $520.00 for surgeon, $75.00 for a year of nutrional counseling, $180.00 for anthesiologist, $1,341.00 for hospital. I had to pay for all this at my pre op visit.

doc told the group i was in for 2 weeks nothing real cold like from freezer or anything real hot. but after 2 weeks you can have SF popsicles. a popsicle is frozen water with flavoring. it may not hurt, but becareful with them

Yes I suppose if I were in my 30 and looking good again I would be hanging with a sex machine too . Lol

I would rather exercise or go swimming

had my pre op with Roller today, and yes he does drill that dumping is bad. and so is mash potatoes.

ask your doc what he thinks about you eating mash potatoes and cheese not sure they will be very happy with that choice,unless its sweet potatoe but either way there is dumping something that should not happen

Well its here. Sitting at the weight loss clinic for my pre op appt, so nervous going to meet the surgeon. Lets see what happens now

You need to get benydril cream rub some on to stop itching

Thanks but not at all interested in the plus size clothes hope to be giving all of mine away in the few coming months. But thank you. Cato s ok but I was really looking for sweats and stuff for just the first few months till it really gets noticeable. I don't planon buying anything nice for at least 6 months. By then hopefully I will be down 60 lbs and ready to explore new jobs. Start school in January I want to be a nail tech and all that it implies. Takes 4 months and all that time I will be wearing smocks and scrubs at school. Can't wait!

Yea never know but I am not looking for anything outside the home men around here are yucky. I just want to feel better and become more active. Everything else I will be grateful

There is a gym here for 30 a month they have all types of machines. Got to reshape the body. I walk a little now just not alot. Hurts to much in my hips. Toting all this ass around is too much

thank you

Yes I called her at the office, and she said yes the totals seemed correct. they go by surgery codes, i am suppose to have surgery the 31st and go home on the first, they dont think any complications could arise. I am very nervous right now wonder if something happens and I do have to stay longer. I even asked what if i have to have my gall bladder taken out too. they said so it gets taken out you still go home the next day. that is how confidant this office is of the surgeon. I hope he is as good as they make him

I have United healthy care, and i have gotten 2 calls today for my payment portions to be paid before surgery which is Dec 31st, but go for pre op visit tomorrow and have to have payments to them tomorrow. for the surgeon, my part, $520.00 for 1 year of counseling with Nutrionist/dietician - $75.00 Hospital with 1 night over stay - #1,341.00 Anthesiologist - $180.00 total for all $2116.00 does this sound right to yall. They never gave me the complete total for whole thing, this is after what insurance will pay and they havent been billed yet. makes me just a tad nervous but ok

its all good, trust me i am so independent i never once asked him about me having the surgery, I honestly dont care what he thinks or feels about it. its my health and my life. luckily for me we may eat 1 meal every 3 months with each other and that is when we go out to eat with his parents. so there is no harm in the eating in front of each other. even when i cook and yell its ready, he comes upstairs fixes his plate and back to the man cave he goes. lol usually with most of the food i prepared, except for vegetable. lol so I am all good, Like I said I dont ask him if he would want to do it. I dont bring it up. but I also told him, and its harsh, if you get diabetes, and his parents and I both think he does but wont admit it. I told him if he becomes wheelchair bound into the nursing home he goes because no way I would be able to lift him to get on the toliet or help change his clothes or bathe him. thats why i married a younger man, I just really thought he had more pride in himself then he does, boy was I wrong.

Yep only way to go now a days. Really wouldn't want it any other way.

HA !! You should know what I tell him. I do remember when it was all so fun back n my 20s and 30s but in the 40s and 50s not so much. Especially if they don't manscape lol ewww next time you get a load instead f swallowing give him a great big wet kss and let him swallow ewww lol sorry had too

Beginning of marriage I cooked, not alot cause I worked evenings. He loves fried foods mostly burgers fries pizza hot wings. I don't cook that. He was so far gone when I married him it was hard for him to stay away from the drive thru's . I had finally realize that even if I cooked something be it spaghetti or meat loaf. Fish he would hit drive thru earlier and then eat another meal when he got home. Packed on the LBs fast then. All we do is Co exist now. He works from 3 to midnight stays down in his man cave playing some zombie multiplayer online game and watches sports. I am cool with that. I stay upstairs in the living room watch my shows. It's the new marriage lol know alot of people who live like this weird to some but it works

Here it is as close to the nutshell I can get. I started gaining weight when I was 27. I was never rail thin but was thin. When I got pregnant with my son I was 25 124 lbs 5'9. At delivery 170. Lost down to 145. . Bad marriage divorce another bad marriage divorce. Stared gaining with 2nd marriage got close to 200 lbs stayed around 200 for about 7 yrs added more weight. Met 3rd hubs. Weighed 268. Highest weight 305. Still married 13 yrs later. When I met him he was around 350. 6'3. He has been big all his life since age 5 his mother the enabler. Ruined him for life. He is 47 weighs between 430 to 480 . I decide to have surgery I am 56. Is he excited for me No but he is like ok about it. I have never ever approached him about the surgery he doesn't even ask me about it. Think he is afraid too. His parents are also ok with it hoping maybe their son might decide to do something if not surgery to challenge me. I feel so sad for him that he doesn't even try or want to do anything. I asked him once don't you want to know how it feels to be just normal? He said how would I know I was. I am sure he is afraid of the extra skin because he would have alot. It's mostly all belly. And I know if he lost the weight his parents would pay for a body lift. But do you think just maybe if he sees what I am doing and I am successful he could possibly want to make a change? I sure don't know. Seems the less I eat the more he does. My surgery s the 31st he is going with me to my preop to see my surgeon on the 20th lets see how that goes

I love the egg beaters whites only, little salt and pepper, maybe a touch of catsup. yumm

yea i may be doing that. thanks

You will love the endoscope I have had it done twice in 20 yrs and love the twilight sleep neither time I knew what happen no sore throat or anything. I would do it tomorrow if they let me lol

Maxi dresses are fine but I am more of a sweats person when it come to relaxing and then getting around and walking

I want to get some nice sweats or something to move around in after surgery that won't be tight around the belly. Wondering we you all get your clothes?