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I can't tell you how exciting it is to at least know those craving might not be there after the surgery. I understand everyone is different and how each one's body reacts is different but still to know that it could not be there helps. Do you guys use gum to try to help with cravings? I have never been a gum chewer but it is becoming high in my thought list to use between meals.

Kpatnode90 I had the same goal! soon I will be under 300 so need to set new goal to be under 280 day of surgery. HW 347 Pre-op start 337 9/16/13 CW 306 12/20/13 I hope to have surgery end of April 2014.

I Had first psych evaluation on 12/16/13. It was an interview it was nice to talk about my goals and have them confirmed as good. There will be one more psych evaluation filling out the questions. 3 more months of Nut appointments and many Dr. Appointments between getting excited and glad to have the time to prepare for this new life style.

Visited Nut and new habit is making sure to have good food with me at all times, might sound weird but I can go all day without eating and we are breaking that habit...so finding bars and things I can keep in my purse so I have no excuses..

So glad your home safe. I pray your recovery goes quickly as you settle into the new you

Hope your surgery went good Tip and not too much pain! So excited for you!

You will be able to do it! Keep the end goal in sight and it will help!

That is so exciting!!! You can do this and I will be thinking about you on Monday!

my first appointment was a group appointment. They went over some of the changes we will have to make after surgery. Alike the size of your pouch and overview of food logs and why need the Nut appointments. Gave information on things to avoid after surgery. It was a total overview of what was going to happen for next couple months. Hoped this helped.

I am looking forward to the lessons the surgery teaches. I agree learning the habits now will save myself from hopefully pain later. goals right now are learning to eat at schedule times and no drinking before, during, and after meals. I have done really good with the drinking part. smaller meals still learning...I was the kind of person who did not eat all day then ate at night without a shut off!!! I first learned to eat 3 meals for two months now learning 5-6 small meals. My Nut calls in redistribution of the food throughout the day! not more food but spreading it out! Next will be portion control!!!

Hi I am from central Ohio I am pre-op. I will be having surgery hopefully early spring after all the Nut appointments. I am having surgery at Riverside in Columbus, Ohio. The have meetings every third Tuesday I haven't went yet but will start soon I hope my schedule will allow me too!

I totally understand the TV and eating. I hook it to relaxing and comfort. I keep telling myself food is not comfort a good blanket is comfort. Good luck with changing your night time routine. I think it will get easier finding new habits to replace old ones! last night instead of eating those last meals, I drank a Protein shake. Made me feel more in control.

today has been full of making appointments and filling in schedule! makes me excited to know the process is moving along!!! I also found out the months before with PCP do count so surgery end of April beginning of May as long as everything else works out!

I am so excited for you! that is a huge milestone and great progress. I am just starting my journey with Nut appointments and everything else that happens pre-op I am very excited for you!

my Nut has advised we purchase this book to have meal ideas after surgery.

I have my first Dr appoint and Nut class on the 21st. I have been on a supervised diet from my Dr. since 9/19 (down 21 pounds) so hopefully theses months will count toward my 6 months my insurance requires. My surgeon's office requires 3 months of their own Nut. which I understand they know the new ways I will have to change my eating habits and can teach me these new life skills. I am anticipating the next couple months to be very busy with Dr appointments and gathering paperwork! Busy works keeps me on track! So am hoping for a May 2014 surgery date. Then hopefully my summer will be spent healing and losing before the next school year!!!

I am learning about myself and how I haven't let others know my struggles with my weight and the effects it has had on me through the years. My close friends are shocked at the things they are finding out about the hardships I face everyday. It has made them more aware if the interactions between us. I know that this decision takes a toll on friendships and changes are hard for relationships. They are afraid of the unknown and the outcomes. They don't like having to think before they interact with me. It is different for them to see me putting myself first and saying no I can't or won't. I know I am giving them time to adjust, I am the one who has done the research.I am the one who is changing not them.

I am just in the beginning of my process and understand the lack or misunderstood support. I think mostly it is fear if the unknown. I find myself being very private about each step and that goes against how I normally am so people around me are reacting. They think they are helping but really they are adding to the issue...some of my family knows and now are trying to protect me from the realities of the issues that my weight brings...from where we sit at the table during meals, to questioning can I eat the food at a restaurant after we are already sitting down... What I find interesting is they are now aware of things I feel everyday! Trying to protect me from the issues I have lived with for the last 20 years... Everyday until the surgery and even after I will have to live with these realities. True support is trusting I know what I am doing and it is the best thing for my health and not creating more issues than I already have to face. Be willing to leave me walk out this even at times alone, because they don't understand and have never faced what and why I am making these choices.

Wow! a lot of information coming to a reality today. Had my Bariatric program consult today...Set up lab work, Dietary orientation with Dietician and medical history and physical. Found out 6 month diet requirements and beginning the process...I am so excited! So nervous and ready to start this journey to a new me!!!!

I agree..sounds like my experiences lose 30-40 then can't maintain diet and then weight right back up and it brings more with it. My highest was this summer at 347 and I was like no more...I have been losing and now at 318 but struggling to stay on diet feeling hungry deprived...add the medical issues and gastric bypass is my only choice. I keep telling myself I can make it until day of surgery... Any thing I do now will only help me later...

Thanks for the encouragement. I am not a big risk taker so I like to prove and know I am able to do something before the events happen. So finding myself worried about diet after surgery so trying to practice before I have no choice to live the rest of my life with these limits. Then quickly feeling like I failed forgetting there are so many physical changes that happen to the body that helps allows me to follow the limits after the surgery. I will say I am feeling more in control over my food choices.

I started my journey also a couple weeks ago. Went to the seminar and now the 31st meeting with insurance and office manager to start process and learn about the requirements. I was told bring a day planner to set up appointments so I am excited and very very nervous. I want and need this so bad and am trying to plan ahead for what is coming in the changes of my life, but I find myself now feeling bad about myself and any food choices I make daily. anyone else feeling like this?