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I'm at 9 months, and I steer clear of the salads. There just is no room for it after the Protein, and I just don't seem to be able to chew salad greens small enough. It takes very little salad to fill me up because I just can't chew it enough.

I'm also an April 2015 sleever and have stalled. Good to know I'm not alone in this struggle.

I've been able to guzzle my Water for months now. The guzzling can commence....a few months after the healing. If I couldn't guzzle, I'd never be able to get in all my water each day!!

the no straw thing is just at the beginning. I've been using straws for months now.

@@frankenstein Thinking about you this morning! Be sure to give a shout out so we know how you're doing! See you on the losers bench!!

@@jembell01 You can look back on these posts later and laugh about how crazy you were at first. It's all good. We all lose our minds every once in a while. Glad you got it figured out!!

@Romo4miles I also have UHC and after I had my surgery last April they did drop that requirement of 6 months supv diet.

Oh the hoops they make us jump through to become healthy. It may seem like an issue, but it isn't, really. During the 6 months, you can knock that out, plus find out what else you need to get done, and get that done during the 6 months~ so once the 6 months is done, you are ready to go! My Insurance co dropped the 5 (or 3) previous years of weight...but I had it for them just in case (from my OBGYN visits, and from WW meetings weigh ins) During the 6 months I was preparing, I did a sleep study in case I had apnea (which I found out I did...but don't anymore!) I scheduled my psych visit and NUT class at the bariatric hospital. You can do this. It is so worth it...and really....it's only 6 months. You've waited this long....what's 6 more months?! That is what I kept telling myself.

Same as @@Elode . I called my insurance company on THE day it was in effect for the requirements from them. I had spoken to others at my company who had the surgery the previous year, so I knew what I had to get done even before I had the coverage (seminar, 6 month supv diet with my PCP, and a co-morbid....so I did a sleep study and had to get a c-pap). So, on the day I had coverage I called our "bariatric resource" dept with our health insurance co. She said I had to go through a COE Bariatric hospital. They assigned me a contact person, who handled everything. I scheduled my appt with the COE Bariatric hospital, who scheduled my Psych visit (on site Psych on staff at bariatric COE!!) and Nut visit, and EGD...all scheduled in the same week. Once psych visit was completed, the psych approved me for surgery, and the next day or two I had the nut visit and EGD (required by COE Bariatric hosp,.....not the insurance co). My surgery was approved within a week after the psych approved me!! My surgery date was a month later! WOW! Typing that all out brought it all back to me. It was such a whirl wind time!!

@@Yadie2006 Like someone said earlier in the thread....Lordy you are gorgeous!! Now then... about being scared...You have a right to be scared. You're about to embark on something you have only read about, or watched videos about. You're going to change your life! Your family will get over it. I am 54. I told my husband and 86 yr old Mom and my big brothers and sister, and all the nieces and nephews that I was having a VSG last year, and they all were like "DON'T DO IT!!" "YOU'LL DIE ON THE TABLE!!" Well, the odds of that happening are super duper low......the odds of me dying in my sleep while Morbidly Obese were very high. Now I am 9 months out, and folks are used to seeing me as a normal sized woman. I am so much healthier, and I have done this to ensure I will have a chance to live a longer life. Girl.....this surgery will save your life. I don't want to talk anyone into doing something they don't want to do, or don't believe in. But I totally believe in this surgery, as someone who has actually done it. Blessings to you.

as long as you see any member of the staff and your weight is documented and discussion noted, you're fine.

@@Djmohr My hubs calls me Frankenbelly lol

sorry you are having such an emotional time of it. Try to remember that no one can make someone else happy. It is each persons responsibility to make themselves happy. Just take care of YOU. (I'm not sure why you feel the need to text your hubs, who is in the next room). consider that you are not the same person you were prior to surgery. You probably weren't as emotional, or as sick, either. It will calm down soon, just give it some time, and rest, and recover.

I've been married to my hubs 28 years, and it's been 9 months since my sleeve surgery. We're doing great (now). He has been doing lots more things like complimenting me, and working on improving himself lately. For a few long months he was depressed, and practically ate himself into oblivion, but once he realized he wasn't hurting anyone but himself, he started working out and properly portioning his food. Now he has become more attentive (which he wasn't for a time after my surgery... think he may have been a tad jealous) If your problem is anything like mine, I hope you two can work it out, if that is the path you are also hoping for. I never expected him to eat like me, or want to exercise like me. One thing I have learned in my long life is that you can't MAKE someone do something to help themselves. They have to WANT to do it. Best of luck to you both.

@@j16 I asked my surgeon to not go thru my belly button, because I had so many laproscopies in my early years before my hysterectomy. so He went above my belly button. He went above it for my gallbladder too.

My doc had me do a liquid reset at 8 months, due to not losing quite as much as he had hoped (85 just wasn't enough I guess). So I did a week of liquid Protein and Water, then went back to normal eating....protein first, then complex carbs. It seemed to reset my restriction.

mine was backwards from yours. I had WLS last April, and gallbladder last week. They used different incisions. Now I have 8 little one inch incisions instead of just the 4 I had from WLS. They are in different areas, so different holes.

There is just something about that flavor I don't like. I'm pretty picky though. As big as I was....I was always picky that way!

I don't like the taste of "bone broth" (stock). It especially turns me off when it's called "bone broth".

I have the UHC PPO...not sure if it's the same as yours or not. Mine was submitted for approval only after my Psych approved me for the surgery. Mine was submitted and approved within a week.

@@jessicasantana28 Just be one of the successes...take your Vitamins, get your bloodwork done, follow the rules, and tend to your teeth by having cleanings and exams twice a year (at least)....and of course great homecare. I applaud you for speaking up, and bringing this to light. I wish more people "got" it.

This is a great topic @@jessicasantana28 Thank you for bringing this up! It is so important to take your Vitamins as prescribed by your doctors, and to have excellent home care, for the simple reason of not getting the nutrients you are used to getting prior to the surgery. Especially if you have RNY. I know people in real life who refused to take vitamins, because "they taste yucky". We are adults. Tough it out. Its a Vitamin, people!! Those friends are wearing dentures now. Others have loose teeth and are preparing for the extractions and dentures. VITAMINS!!! and HOME CARE!!! Again...Thank you for bringing light on this subject.

@@Stevehud I'm in your camp! I have forged some good friendships here, and I have gotten lots of help when I was a newbie. Luckily I was a mature newbie and I didn't let anyone on the internet,(that I will likely never meet in real life) bother me. Opinions are just opinions. take them or leave them. But folks need to be careful with the name calling or insinuating that they have no compassion. They have lots of compassion!! It used to be called tough love. Of course, the "entitled" don't get that.

@@pkh70 If your surgeons office is anything like mine, they don't care. They will return you on the date you tell them to return you. Just make sure you check with your Short term disability administrators to find out how much time they will approve. It's ok to ask them that question.

Better to take off more time than not enough if you can afford it. Short Term Disability should pay you 100% for several weeks if you have been with your employer for any amount of time.