Jana64

My date just changed from feb 18th to FEB FOURTH!!!! Whoo HOO!!!!!!

Stool sample? Ug. That sounds fun. I pray that they won't ask that of me. Just another thing to worry about I am heading to a fun bariatric ugly christmas sweater sleepover party this weekend. I am in the process of making my own ugly sweater. It's distracting from from the fact that I still have NINE and a half weeks to go. Oh well. Now what do you take as a food, to a bariatric party where half the people are pre-op and half are post op?

This last weigh in (they are all in the evening) I didn't eat much all day, didn't drink much and didn't wear heavy clothes. I know that's defeating the purpose, but I knew that two weighins over my last weight would cause me to be in real danger.

I live in fear of my weighins. But this last time I lost about six pounds. I started at 274 and lost a bit each time, but the november weigh in, I gained two pounds. Do you log your foods and do you use My Fitness Pal? I am going to keep logging even after the surgery. I have heard too many people say that they don't lose enough afterward and then it's because they got back to eating too much.

I'm glad my requirements are done. Ten weeks now. Funny, I feel like I'm counting down to a pregnancy due date.

Today I go to my Nutritionist approval appointment. I hope I pass this one. I passed the psych evaluation on Monday. then I have two more weigh ins for my insurance mandated 5 month diet. One is next Tuesday and then there is one in January. So far, I have lost about eleven pounds on the insurance diet and dropped one full size. I just had to buy a new swim suit because mine does not fit and had to buy a smaller size underwear. Although 11 pounds is not a lot, my body is really firming up from all of the swimming that I do everyday. By the way, I have a youtube thing at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgvSAugTmyRTBm_ThLQurJg and a blog at http://onwarddown.blogspot.com/ I wanted to post this on my facebook, but I am stepping back from telling people in real life. I don't need to hear their secondhand horror stories.

Sorry for the typos. I'm on my phone and I'm simply too lazy to go back and correct them.

I do track my macros on mfp. Thank you Beaglelover, I'm a beagle louver, too. JMSCOUT6, My insurance requires a five month diet before they will approve the sleeve or any other WLS. They also require an ekg, chest xrays, a sleep study, blood work, an upper endoscopy, a psycological evaluation and a meeting with a nutritionist. Today is my psych and my NUT appt is on Thursday. Then I'm just finishing my diet and doing bloodwork. My diet is supervised through a hospital life style program. I get a lot of support from them.

Sounds like you are doing really well! Congratulations!

YES! I am scheduled for February 18th! Doesn't it seem like a lifetime away? It's twelve weeks today for me. I am scared and excited, but mostly terrified of my weigh-in appointments. They are all at night and last month I gained. I am afraid that I won't get insurance approval. It seems like my period coincide with the weighins. How is everyone doing on the insurance required diet? I even wrote letters to all of my kids in case I croak on the table. But really, I don't think that will happen. I am trying to go into this in the best shape that I can. It's hard, though.

By the way, I swim 35 minutes of hard laps every day, do weighted squats (only 20) and do a 12 minute seated aerobic routine three times a week. Forgot to add that exercise stuff in there...

I was excited, thinking I had gotten "an appointment to talk to the surgeon", but what I actually got - and it's tomorrow - is an appointment to attend an introductory lecture by the surgeon. The office staff won't even discuss what comes next, I guess because it's so individual. Oh well, everyone has to start someplace. I have a list of questions to take with me. On the bright side, I have been super conscious of my chewing, since I have been reading on here how you have to relearn how to chew your food really, really, REALLY thoroughly and it has been helping my digestion. Who knew? Jan

That's great that they don't make you jump through hoops!

I'm so sorry! How disappointing that would be. Let's hope that you get your surgery soon and no more setbacks.

I also just starting. I have upmc insurance and just sent in my forms for a bariatric consult. Losing weight has been doable for me but I can't keep it off. I'm 280 @ 5'8" BMI of 42.7. My insurance has a six month supervised diet requirement also. What happens if I lose below 41 bmi?

Thank you all for the words of advice. My sister is a former gyn surgeon. She pulverized her right wrist in a fall and is now a fiction writer, but even she said that this sounds like the right move for me since she had seen me lose this weight so many times just to regain it. She's pretty conservative - medically and I was surprised to hear it. I guess I always knew it was coming - having to lose weight for heath reasons rather than just for hating my body shape. And it's true that I can lose this weight without surgery but it's going to come right back on. Forty years have shown me this. Jan

Hi, I am new here, 49 year old, mother of six, ages 31, 29, 27, 15, 14 (son who has autism) and 10. Yeah. I have a hard time stopping. But my husband had a vasectomy - so no more kids. Anyway, I lost 120 pounds on the diet drug Meridia and lost my gallbladder, had a miscarriage, gained everything back. I just couldn't go back to dieting. Fast forward seven years and now I am 280 lbs and have diverticulitis. I have had four attacks in a year and the only rememdy is a bowel resection, which they can't do because of all the weight that I carry on my torso. I look nine months pregnant. My surgeon, who does not do gastric surgeries, told me that there is too high a risk of doing the resection until I lose 100 pounds. He said he recommended the gastric sleeve. I am allergic to milk and soy. eggs are problematic, as they give me the runs. I can't eat nuts, seeds or things that don't dissolve - because of the diverticulitis. Any words of wisdom? I went through the online orientation tonight and faxed off my information to the bariatric clinic at McGee Hospital in Pittsburgh. I am not really scared - yet. When you are already resigned to having your colon out, having your stomach reduced dramatically is not such a stretch. There are already so many foods that I can't eat due to the diverticulitis that I don't mind a restricted diet. I just want to feel better, stronger. Not be the fat lady. I want my younger kids to know me as someone other than the morbidly obese person they have always known.