LynneB

My Dr is also a gen. surg. He removed my gallbladder a couple yrs ago & I love him. He is terrific. I think its better to have a GS in case you have other issues down the road, he will already be familiar w/ u.

I am on day 4 of a 10 day liquid diet. Its not so bad with the exception of the major headaches! I can have 1 can of campbells broth based soup a day (boy do I look forward to that for dinner!) and all the sugar free jello/popsicles/fudgesicles I want, and all the broth I want. The worst broth IMO is Swansons, the best is called "Better Than Bouillon" I got it at Publix. The veggie & chicken are really good but the mushroom was gross. I also like the GNC Essential Natural Protein, the vanilla cake, chocolate fudge, and strawberry are yummy. So far so good, I havent cheated except for licking the salt off 1 mini fat free pretzel, but I didnt eat it & it sure was hard not to! It just isnt worth the risk of my Dr closing me right back up if my liver isnt shrunk enough!

I'm the 11th too. I cant wait!

Had my coaching session w/ Tamala today!! She is soooooooo sweet!!

Hey, is anyone else on their preop liquid diet? If so, are you feeling a little bitchy? I am. I'm not hungry, just bitchy/irritable. ~C OMG BIG TIME ROYAL BITCH!! I catch myself snapping at my kids & my pets for no reason & then I feel soooo bad after I open my mouth! I have apologized so many times in the last 4 days!

Bariatric eating.com says a food processor can do everything a blender can do, but a blender cant do everything a food processor does. If you cant have both, I would go for the processor.

Someone on here told me about chromium picolinate, you can get it at GNC or any vitamin shop. My surgeon said its fine to take pre and post op, it is super tiny so it will not get stuck post op. It curbs carb cravings and decreases appetite. It has really helped me on my preop liquid diet.

WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!! Congrats!! Hope everything goes perfectly!!

good luck everyone! My prayers are w/ u!

How is everyone who had surgery so far? I want details...everything... from length of surgery & how u are all feeling tell me all you can please! I am getting nervous now! 7 more days!

Cant wait to hear from all of you! You are all in my prayers for a smooth surgery & fast recovery.

Best of luck to all the 3rds!! Cant wait to hear how it all goes! Big hugs to all of u.

sooooooooo...........I want updates!!!! Hope everything went well for all of u!!

I am so proud of myself from this weekend...I made it thru 3 days of every single park at Disney World and I never ate anything at the parks!! I came back to our cabin at Ft Wilderness to eat my healthy stuff I brought w/ me. Passing by the turkey legs, all the wonderful smelling pretzel & churro stands & especially my weakness...the Confectionary!! I LOVE Disney fudge & choc covered hard pretzels there!! But I did it!! I wore my bodybugg & it showed I walked 9.5 miles during the 3 days! My legs are killing me!! My preop diet started yesterday & we were still at Ft Wilderness, my entire family decides to go to the most amazing breakfast buffet, I look so forward to going to this buffet everytime we are there so I knew it was gonna be tough, but I couldnt skip it since my entire family never gets together except for these trips. It was so shocking to me that, I was able to get thru it! I did have 1 bite of a mickey mouse waffle (my FAV!) & it tasted so gross! I dont know if anyone has been to this buffet, but the bacon is to die for! I had 1 small corner off a piece & almost threw up. The grease after so many weeks of watching my carbs was just sickening. So funny how our taste for carbs changes when we eat high protein for awhile! So I drank my fat free milk and my orange juice and I was proud of me!! LOL The waiter noticed I hadnt eaten & asked if I was ok. When I told him why, he told me he had lapband surgery a yr ago & he was 380lbs before surgery & he was down to 170lbs & he looked GREAT! When he brought the check he had taken off the $25.00 for my food without even asking if we wanted the charge removed. (We never would have asked) The best part, I came home from Disney World 5 lbs lighter than when I left!! Not many ppl can say that!! I usually gain at least 5lbs when I go there!! Off to change my ticker!!

I cant believe only 9 more days!! Day 2 liquid diet is not too bad, although I do have a major headache right now. Discovered today that I like cottage cheese when I forced myself to try Breakstones cottage doubles w/ peach topping. It was a little odd as far as consistency, it felt really strange chewing & swallowing it, but overall, it will be tolerable as a lunch. So far the broth has been the worst, I love Swansons chicken broth when I make homeade chicken noodle soup, but drinking it plain is disgusting! I gotta find a better broth or I will never make it thru this preop diet. I have to have no more than 3 servings of dairy a day, SF popsicles/fudgesicles/jello (all I want) & all the broth I want. (yuck!) Then for dinner I am allowed 1 small can of Campbells chicken noodle/beef noodle/or veggie soup. I am so glad I started the "modified" diet early cuz this would have been so incredibly hard to switch to from eating normally!

My name is Lynne, I live in Manatee County (Bradenton) FL. I have a son who is 14 & a daughter who is 8. My pets are 10 birds (4 of them are exotic) and 2 cats. I have been very happily single for 5 yrs after a 12yr relationship. My surgery is April 11th & I am on day 2 of preop liquid diet. I am so excited, so far no second thoughts on having surgery! I just cant wait!

wow, I hope you continue to heal fast! I go on the 11th also. I may spend the night voluntarily since I am a single mom. Keep us posted on your day to day progress! Cant wait to see how you feel over the next couple days since usually days 2 & 3 are the worst after surgery.

OMG I am worried about EVERYTHING!!! If it wasnt for bad luck I would have NO luck!! I am starting to freak out! There was a teenager locally here (18) who was having reconstructive medically necessary breast surgery & she had a complication from anesthesia & she died! Just what I need to hear 16 days away from surgery!! She was 1/2 my age!! Supposedly it was some kind of genetic allergy & her parents didnt know about it. I just keep telling myself, I have been thru this all before w/ gall bladder & endometriosis surgeries & everything was fine then.

Dont give up on UHC! It took 3 appeals to get them to approve me. They hope you will give up & just go away, but dont let them do that to you! Write them a long letter, consult w/ an atty, do whatever it takes!

go to the monthly support group link at the bottom, all the April Avengers are there! :thumbup:

congrats!! better figure out a way to light that candle on a straw!! HB & welcome to the April Avengers! Fighting fat the superhero way!! :thumbup:

I am cross posting this under here & April Avengers so hopefully someone can give me a good opinion on what is going on with me...so here it is..... The last few weeks have just crawled by, but now that this week is almost 1/2 over, I cant believe my 10 day preop diet starts 1 week from today!! Sunday thru Tuesday is Disney trip w/ my kids & Tuesday starts my preop diet!! It's really sinking in now that this is gonna happen! 17 more days & I will be sitting in the hospital waiting for it to be over. I am almost scared of what it will be like when its all over, I have spent so many months of researching and preparing and fighting w/ insurance, that I wonder if I will feel lost when its finally complete. Anyone else feel that way or am I just a nut case who shoulda failed my psych eval? LOL I am so afraid of the post op pain, mostly knowing that no matter how bad I hurt, I will have to hide the pain around my family 'cuz they really dont want me to do this. Knowing that any complications or discomfort I will endure will be all alone (except for my LBT buddies) is terrifying. I decided that for my sake and my kids sake that I will voluntarily stay overnight in the hospital since I am a single mom & I worry about being groggy the same day of surgery & trying to come home w/ my kids. They are old enough (14 & 8) to kinda take care of themselves, but I figured that would give me a chance to recoup a lil & come home Saturday instead of Friday afternoon (surgery is at 5am the 11th). My mom will keep the kids overnight & take my DD to dance class & my DS to the horse ranch & then come get me. I keep trying to convince myself that this wont be any worse than the 3 laps I had for endometriosis/adhesions, & my gall bladder, but then these scary thoughts keep creeping into my head about all the complications I keep reading on here & that is just my luck to be one of those horror stories. To top it all off, I have been getting terrible dizzy spells and episodes of very blurry vision the last week or so. I cant focus on anything! I am going to get lab work done tomorrow & then Thurs I am going to see my endocrinologist to see if its my thyroid or blood sugar thats causing this. Even though I have been doing the modified preop diet, my sugars have been extremely high. (331 last night) I take 1 glyburide a day right now, no insulin. I have lost 10 lbs in the last 1 1/2 weeks so it could be my synthroid needs adjusting, but I am freaked over the sugars being so high!! I hope they dont cancel my surgery because of that! I just feel so weak all the time, its really scary. I think I may have gotten a little too gung ho on the modified preop diet after having the flu & never really gave my body the nutrients that it needed to recover from all the vomiting I did. Thats the only thing I can think of that could be causing this. Any ideas??? Thanks for letting me ramble on.....((((((((hugs)))))))))

The last few weeks have just crawled by, but now that this week is almost 1/2 over, I cant believe my 10 day preop diet starts 1 week from today!! Sunday thru Tuesday is Disney trip w/ my kids & Tuesday starts my preop diet!! It's really sinking in now that this is gonna happen! 17 more days & I will be sitting in the hospital waiting for it to be over. I am almost scared of what it will be like when its all over, I have spent so many months of researching and preparing and fighting w/ insurance, that I wonder if I will feel lost when its finally complete. Anyone else feel that way or am I just a nut case who shoulda failed my psych eval? LOL I am so afraid of the post op pain, mostly knowing that no matter how bad I hurt, I will have to hide the pain around my family 'cuz they really dont want me to do this. Knowing that any complications or discomfort I will endure will be all alone (except for my LBT buddies) is terrifying. I decided that for my sake and my kids sake that I will voluntarily stay overnight in the hospital since I am a single mom & I worry about being groggy the same day of surgery & trying to come home w/ my kids. They are old enough (14 & 8) to kinda take care of themselves, but I figured that would give me a chance to recoup a lil & come home Saturday instead of Friday afternoon (surgery is at 5am the 11th). My mom will keep the kids overnight & take my DD to dance class & my DS to the horse ranch & then come get me. I keep trying to convince myself that this wont be any worse than the 3 laps I had for endometriosis/adhesions, & my gall bladder, but then these scary thoughts keep creeping into my head about all the complications I keep reading on here & that is just my luck to be one of those horror stories. To top it all off, I have been getting terrible dizzy spells and episodes of very blurry vision the last week or so. I cant focus on anything! I am going to get lab work done tomorrow & then Thurs I am going to see my endocrinologist to see if its my thyroid or blood sugar thats causing this. Even though I have been doing the modified preop diet, my sugars have been extremely high. (331 last night) I take 1 glyburide a day right now, no insulin. I have lost 10 lbs in the last 1 1/2 weeks so it could be my synthroid needs adjusting, but I am freaked over the sugars being so high!! I hope they dont cancel my surgery because of that! I just feel so weak all the time, its really scary. I think I may have gotten a little too gung ho on the modified preop diet after having the flu & never really gave my body the nutrients that it needed to recover from all the vomiting I did. Thats the only thing I can think of that could be causing this. Any ideas??? Thanks for letting me ramble on.....((((((((hugs)))))))))

movie screen?? NO WAY! I want the REAL THING!! Couple of serious hunks there!! YUMMY!!

I lost the weight on a plan called medi-zone. A Dr in Tampa FL created it. It is w/ help of phentermine, fat burning injections and B-12 injections. The only prob was it cost between $140 & $175 a week. Couldnt keep that up for long!!! The diet itself was 1 week zero carbs & then slowly add in "good carbs" after your system was in ketosis. You do that 1 week out of every month to keep from plateauing. I stayed w/ that Dr for 5 months before I went too far into debt to continue. I started at 285 lbs, got down to 205 before I quit. Then I gained it all back after stopping the injections & pills. (of course, I didnt exactly eat right either) Now I am down to 220 and it's all due to low carb, high protein eating. I just follow that diet without the injections. I also just joined Shapes last week & I have lost 5lbs in 6 days just from water aerobics and stationary bike, with very little weight training. I do about 5 mins of leg presses, 5 mins of abs, 5 mins of thigh machine, 5 mins of the rotating ab/pec machine and 5 mins of treadmill & 5 mins of bike w/ 4-5 hours a week of water aerobics. Luckily my ins & doc didnt require a diet before surgery, just 5 yrs medical records documenting obesity & comorbidities. The last 2 weeks, I have a protein shake for breakfast, 1 for lunch & a salad, soup, or baked potato for dinner. If I snack, it's a slim jim or a couple fat free pretzels, but I dont have a snack every day.