SAD HATTER

I submit to insurance Tuesday. My surgeon scheduled me for 2nd week August. I will find out what day in a few weeks.

I am just gonna roll them up and shove them in a pretty and expensive bra with a water balloon.

My therapist has me do battle with the foods I crave. I have to pick it up. Smell it for a long time. Decide what it smells like. Touch it. And then take a teeny taste. 99% of the time it smells fatty, feels fatty, tastes fatty, and in teeny bites, kinda tastes gross. So I move on. I have come to realize that some of my favorite foods arent that awesome when I stop and make myself aware of how they really smell and taste.

When I was in college, I discovered aquatards. I lost a ton of weight when I began training and running. I was very trim and fit, but i had really bad sagging thighs. (I now have ballooned and fill them out... but alas) Aquatards are awesome because you can wear your swimsuit, have no chafing, its like compression for your thighs, and a black suit with a cute tank or shirt, makes a nice outfit during the summer. I LIVED in mine. I still wear one because when we ski and tube, it keeps me from mooning people. lol

I have United Healthcare and I asked about the tummy tuck. My insurance will cover it if I can maintain the loss for 12 months and show documented issues with skin infections and sores. I have surgery in August. One month from now. I have had 2 C sections and already have the skin infections and sores. I am hoping they will cover it when I need it. My RNY is in August. Good lord I am gonna give up today. Every time I post I am not specific. Ugh

I love Unjury chicken protein mix. I hate sweets so having that on hand is a must for me.

I am one month away. My surgery is in August. Reading my comment it doesnt sound specific. Lol. I am tired.

My surgeon gave me my packet. I am one month from surgery. My packet calls for me to stay in each phase until I start getting hungry or hit a certain amount of days. She said each person will progress differently. So mine doesn't have a specific timeline.

My therapist had surgery and she said preop she was a c...and after all the weight came off shes a saggy dd. Lucky...

Thank you!

I live in Llano. Rougnly 1/3 the size of Graham. I am having surgery in San Antonio with Dr Reiss. It's about a 2 hr drive for me, as there is nothing where I live. There is another lady in town that had hers done in Temple this Monday. I am counting down the days.

As a former smoker, I took up vaping to rid myself of the bad crap in the ciggies. I have gone 0 nic with my juice leading up to surgery. IF I ever go back to nic, it will be really low. Unless you have smoked, you just don't know how hard it is. Plus, vaping is not as bad as people make it out to be. In the end, very low nic is about as harmful as caffine. Darth Vaper

My insurance just requires one each month, span does not matter as long as it is within reason. I ran all my dates past my Optum nurse and she approved of the timing of them.

I did Medifast and had great results, but the food was nasty and after 4 months, and the transition, the weight just came back on slowly. I did Advocare and Herbalife, Protein shakes, some Nutrisystem type plans....Phentermine, Topomax, and Qsymia.... Everything worked, until it didn't. None of it was a long term solution. I have to have a long term solution. A tool that stays with me.

When you eat keto (basically high protein, good fats, no carb) your body enters ketosis. Eating carbs will stop ketosis. Your body will retain water again until you re-enter ketosis. That can take a week. One cheat can stall you a week or cause water gain. If you plan a cheat, ditch the scale. For at least 2 weeks.

I did hcg injections and ate 500 calories a day via a very teeny food list. Lost tons. Didn't last. Gained it all back plus 30. Dumb dumb dumb.

I plan on ditching the scale and measuring instead. I've had far too close a relationship with it and I don't want to go insane.

Mine will be right around the end of the first week in August. They will give me a date next week if all goes as planned. I have completed everything but the last 2 diet check-ins. Hopefully they will give me a date around yours. The earlier the better!

I have posted how I came about my decision before, and since I am lazy, I will copy paste..... I went in wanting the sleeve. My surgeon asked me what my expectations were, and what my main concerns were. Each of my smaller concerns she would stop me and say... either will do that. Then I asked the big one... When I am old, which one would be better. When I am 70-80, or in a nursing home, or if I am in a horrible accident, if I needed a full time feeding tube to help keep me alive, which one would work, and which one would be a huge problem, and she said.. Get the bypass if you are concerned with 50 years from today. Feeding tubes are easy to insert in the stomach that is left inside. With a sleeve, theres nothing to put it in other than the sleeve or intestine, and quality of life would dimish. Diabetes runs in the family. I don't have it now, but I don't want it later. RNY can do that for me. She also said that in HER practice, 20% of the RNY she performs, are a revision from sleeve. She said that in her patients with sleeve, many show that after 3 years, they no longer feel ANY restriction at all... and that they are regaining weight. Long-term, she has seen much better maintenance with the bypass.

My surgeon said that if old age nursing care was a concern that she recommended rny over sleeve. Because its easier to just throw a feeding tube in the blind stomach. My main concerns about surgery is how it will impact me in 40 yrs. I feel confident in my decision after talking with her. She said she does a LOT of sleeve to rny revisions. I only want ONE surgery.

I gained weight. Insurance (UHC) said they didn't care. My surgeon does. I have to lose 10 lbs in 2.5 months.

Today is my #4 of 6. I am so ready.

In my half-hour lunch, I managed to let the dog go pee, run to the hospital and make the ultrasound appointment, call the specialty center to make the hematologist appointment, and schedule my first therapy session... Now if my laundry would cooperate.

I went in wanting the sleeve. My surgeon asked me what my expectations were, and what my main concerns were. Each of my smaller concerns she would stop me and say... either will do that. Then I asked the big one... When I am old, which one would be better. When I am 70-80, or in a nursing home, or if I am in a horrible accident, if I needed a full time feeding tube to help keep me alive, which one would work, and which one would be a huge problem, and she said.. Get the bypass if you are concerned with 50 years from today. Feeding tubes are easy to insert in the stomach that is left inside. With a sleeve, theres nothing to put it in other than the sleeve or intestine, and quality of life would dimish. Diabetes runs in the family. I don't have it now, but I don't want it later. RNY can do that for me. She also said that in HER practice, 20% of the RNY she performs, are a revision from sleeve. She said that in her patients with sleeve, many show that after 3 years, they no longer feel ANY restriction at all... and that they are regaining weight. Long-term, she has seen much better maintenance with the bypass. Ultimately, I am very happy with my final decision of RNY. I will get it in August.

So yesterday I met with the surgeon. Here are my requirements (and what I have completed) 6 diet visits (#4 is tomorrow) lose 10 pounds by July see a therapist and get clearance see a hematologist for clearance (since I have APS - antiphospholipid syndrome) have an ultrasound of the gall bladder NO sleep study needed NO endo needed I can see the light at the end of the tunnel... It is slowly getting closer and closer. I am using Dana Reiss in San Antonio, TX. I went in wanting the sleeve, and came out completely happy with her wanting to do the RNY. My main concern was 40 years from now, how WLS would affect my quality of life, especially if MS takes over. If I ever need a feeding tube, the RNY offers a better outlook for my quality of life. To me, this was far more important than my attachment to my pyloric valve. I am 100% happy with the decision to do RNY, and I can't wait to get all these appointments done and get on with this show.