BladeFox

This Thanksgiving will be my final feast and meal that I prepare. My family doesn't know this yet and I'm sure they will be surprised. For the final goodbye, I will cook a pleasurable meal that will consist of an apple cider brinned turkey, spicy fried chicken, cornbread dressing, greens, mashed potatoes with parsnips and chives and sour cream, brussel sprouts and leaks, and top it off with a peach cobbler. For snacks, I'm roasting chickpeas covered in cocoa powder, brown sugar, and sea salt. (*Remember the warning*) I plan to partake in some of it because I am still in the pre-op phase of my plan so I plan to drink loads of water and exercise like nobody's business to help purge over the weekend. However, this will be my last hoo-rah with these fanfares. I've had final goodbyes before to food but what makes this one special is because I know that the sleeve won't permit eating like this again. Therefore, my teen kids and my supportive husband will need to adjust to this new way of living. This is their final Thanksgiving meal of this magnitude at our home. Say hello to a NEW lifestyle! Gobble - Gobble

I'm assuming she is being quite cranky, depressed, tearful and others that only you know. I'm just glad that she has someone like you to care for her through this. I would say to let her go through this and cater to her needs as long as you know what she can't eat so that you are not an enabler. Read these boards and forums so that you are an educated supporter. Good Luck and hang in there!

I did ask and she didn't know and rather quickly gave me the pre-op diet that I am supposed to follow until my next visit on Dec 18. She was the one that told me that my insurance only required 3 visits with them. It was the Nut that pushed it out another 3 months. Very interesting don't you think?

So I calculated the pre-op diet that I'm starting next week. Yes, the week of Thanksgiving. I'll do it for two days and then re-start it on the following Monday. Anyway, my Spark People calculated a days meal on pre-op to be 784 calories...WHOA! So I honestly asked myself if I can do this plan and I believe I can with a lot of grumbling. I also calculated what I currently eat on a bad day and that came out to be 2,596...WHOA! I said to myself. So here's the mental challenge. I don't think the plan that I got from the Nut has enough protein to help me feel full which is very interesting coming from them, so I will incorporate another 150 calories that will come from protein. That should do it.

Anyone that have read my blog knows that I feel dupped in the pre-op journey. Again, my nutritionist wanted to see me 6 times when I only needed to see them 3 according to my insurance, blah, blah, blah... Someone told me that I should request from the Dr's office that they submit my paperwork for approval from my insurance company so that it's done and the only thing that needs to be done is to lose 8 lbs, meet with the DR and a date. Do you think this is too pushy?

Woo Hoo! I would love to fold

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Surgery date....well, that's another story. Check out my blog on that topic.

I hear you on many of those that you brought up. I also have medical issues that I need to address now before it's too late. My main reason for doing this surgery is not vanity it's to get off meds, see my kids grow up and have my grandkids or find success, and mobility (my knees are painful and creeky.) Also, I want/need to get my head right about food, so I'm committing myself to visits with the nutritionist and possibly the psychologist for those issues after the surgery. I can't keep carrying a person with me everyday...I'm too old for that.

How old are you? Also, make the doctors dig deeper.

I have never heard of this type of problem on any forum related to the surgery. You may need to go see a dermatologist about that. Good Luck!

I'm pre-op but have been on other diets that caused hair shedding. My hair was the length that yours is after the cut, now my hair is a pixie cut due to shedding and peri-menopause (something that you won't need to think about for a bit ) so I chopped. I'm not missing my locks either. Don't worry, your hair will start growing back by 8 months. Congrats on the weight loss!

Congrats and make sure to rest!

Interesting, but I was thinking of things that I quit OR implemented cold-turkey. Pop, putting white sugar in things, social smoking (never a big smoker,) buying ground beef, cooking with olive oil/coconut other organic oils, taking Vitamins and supplements and I'm sure others that I can't think of offhand. I always ask myself what made me just decide to quit those things or add those things so passionately that I never want to do them again? If I could do that with rice/pasta/bread and exercise, I would have it made forever. I say this to say, we are imperfect beings and choosing this surgery is not choosing perfection. It still requires work and making right choices - forever and in all that we do.

As a matter of fact, my insurance doesn't require that I lose weight, it's the Dr's office that requires it. Somethings wrong with this picture...

Shoot, I don't know what to say to help you except, get back on the original plan and clean the pantry. Start from square one and I agree with dnanevett, get that exercise. Sometimes changing something that you do to make yourself look and feel pretty always helps me too. Good Luck!

I have successfully done Atkins as well. Lost 80 lbs and kept it off for about 3 years with the help of exercise. I was an exercise freak during that time. The thing that tipped me off the plan was emotional distress of a death in the family. I also found that Atkins was a bit restrictive at that time because truly you couldn't eat any carbs including fruit. I am a pre-op sleever and working my way to surgery and I have found that this surgery is restrictive in how much food you eat, plus, you can recognize your full limits. You can also have complex carbs so life doesn't have to end when it comes to eating. It's still a tool that you have to work at, but keeps the focus on knowing how to gauge when you are full, something that Atkins didn't do. Hope this helps.

Today I visited with my nutritionist and shared with her my frustration in not having a clear process to date. My insurance only required 3 visits with the nutritionist but here I was at the 4th and according to their records, one of the nutritionist had me down for two more which would have been 6 total!!! I asked why so many times and they didn't have a clear answer except, committment to the process... What!?! What's not to commit to, I have done everything that they have asked me to except lose 5 lbs!!! I was waiting to do that with the pre-diet! So, after deliberation with the nutritionist, I finally have the pre-op plan for my now 8 lb weight loss. YIPPEE!!!! Here's how it will work from this point on and I'm holding them to it: Next Nut visit: December 18 Must have 8 lbs lost by then. Schedule Dr. visit within the same day or next day Dr. approval for submission of paperwork to insurance Insurance approval roughly 2 weeks Date scheduled after approval Must maintain weight loss until surgery Anticipated surgery date: Sometime in January Geesh!!!

I think men/spouses in general will help and care until they see that you are fine and then they move on. My husband doesn't talk about the surgery much unless I bring it up to him (pre-op). Then he says that he is just concerned about me having surgery overall. So I know that he cares but I'm not letting it fool me into thinking that afterwards, maybe two weeks, it won't be life as usual either. That's just the way they are...

Check out YouTube, tons of 'skin flicks' there...

Eeeeeeeeeeee! Congrats! It'll be fine...

SNAP! You look FABU!!! Keep up the good work!

Couild it be rapid weight loss?

Just today from church, I thought to myself, 'self, am I serious about this because I am eating the foods that I will have to say good bye to?' I have heard that this is natural up to the point of the surgery for some. I seriously don't want to be the "some" I read about but if I am, I know that when it happens, my new stomach will force bad decisions to cease and desist. Two days on a liquid diet isn't bad. Good luck and see you in post-op land one day.

Simpley, I think it's being on these post during pre-op. I'm reading more about it which is a good thing but I still don't have a date PLUS I have another NUT visit next week. DONE! I think I need to leave this board alone until I get a date.