Careysgirl

There are so many points where you could stop yourself from going out to buy fast food - before you stand up and walk to your car keys, as you are gathering your wallet, stepping out the door and locking it, getting into your car... at every point, you have an opportunity to tell yourself HELL NO and go do something else.
I could even understand one time (because many of us have cheated once on a pre op diet) ... but if you are doing this over and over again, then you are definitely not ready because you are sabotaging yourself.
You have to distract yourself from this sort of eating. And you really aren't even eating real food - all that fast food crap is fat, sodium and carbs. Nothing at those places is good for you and it is hurting you every time you put it in your mouth. I'd even try picturing eating broken, dirty glass every time I craved that stuff if it was me to reframe how you think about it. It is not healthy food; you're craving it because you're addicted to fat/carbs/sodium and you use food to comfort/reward yourself.
You need to speak with your doctor/nutritionist before surgery if you can't get this stopped ASAP, because if you go into your surgery eating that crap right up until time (I'm assuming at some point they'll have put you on a pre-op diet) then your liver is going to be a very possible cause to cancel your surgery due to it being too large or fatty to perform it safely. That could mean you make it to the operating table and they cut you open and get in there and see your liver is too poor a shape to continue.
You could have serious, life threatening complications if your liver is damaged during surgery, and that is why they want you eating healthy, low fat foods (or even a liquid diet) before surgery to shrink your liver to make it easier to move around (it overlaps your stomach and they have to move it with the laproscopic tools). It is not about losing a ton of weight before surgery, it is to make sure your liver is as small as possible.
If this is scary sounding I mean it to be, because sometimes it takes scaring someone to finally get through to them - USE THAT FEAR. Every time you get up to go out the door to buy fast food... tell yourself that you may end up very sick, or have your surgery cancelled, or injure your liver if you step a foot out that door!
And I would not lie about your eating to them either, because all you'd be doing is risking your life and health to hide the fact that you have an addiction to food - which they already know since you're having this surgery.
You need to commit to doing your absolute best - this surgery will change your life and you will be so very, very happy if you can make it through successfully. It is only a few weeks and anyone can be strong for that short of time if they work hard enough.
Tell yourself that you are worth the work. You ARE going to be awesome and in control and you don't need some nasty fast food crud to make you feel better. Taco Bell and all those nasty sandwich shops are NOT your friends and you're dumping them right now. You have better things to do with your time and energy - and you deserve to have a super outcome. You can do this!!

It's something that I'm guessing a lot of us sleevers can be prone to.
In the pre-sleeve days, I was a big snacker. I'd snack when I was stressed out.....work stress being the worst......marital stress.......financial stress.......etc.
Those Snacks were never anything healthy, either......just more sugary nails in my coffin.
It was a fear of mine in having the sleeve vs bypass. I worried that the lack of dumping syndrome may find me snacking again on carb-laden garbage.
I have a battle plan that has worked really well thus far and I do not have Snacks nor want them.
Frequent exercise. Mainly it's just walking and some weight training. Frequent as in every single day.
Seeing the tiny amount of calories burned on the treadmill display or on my fitbit is enough to reinforce how damn hard it is to burn extra calories off.......so it makes the discipline to avoid eating them come very easily. Discipline is achieved and maintained. Junk food is gone from my life.
The other aspect of frequent exercise is that I can feel it improving my response to stress. It is a tangible difference....huge improvement.
Not sure what works for you.....but some time lifting......or hitting the heavy bag at the gym......or cranking the treadmill elevation up and faster while jamming to some hard driving music.......all that gets me where I need to be.

Find out from your surgeon if clearance from your psychiatrist would be sufficient?

I had an interest in Bariatric surgery last year in May but there were so many personal issues besides being unhappy with my weight that I had to deal with so I decided to see a therapist and psychiatrist instead .....well after 6 months of therapy and Lexapro
I finally had a clear head to focus on me and I finally made an appointment at the Bariatric center I started loosing weight in the pre-op stages waiting on surgery date and am continuing therapy because it really held to talk to someone who has no interest in judging you but only to listen to everything you want to tell them that's on your mind.

I had an interest in Bariatric surgery last year in May but there were so many personal issues besides being unhappy with my weight that I had to deal with so I decided to see a therapist and psychiatrist instead .....well after 6 months of therapy and Lexapro
I finally had a clear head to focus on me and I finally made an appointment at the Bariatric center I started loosing weight in the pre-op stages waiting on surgery date and am continuing therapy because it really held to talk to someone who has no interest in judging you but only to listen to everything you want to tell them that's on your mind.

I have been exercising maintenance afraid of denial for loosing too much weight as of now I lost about 26 lbs and my BMI is 39 and it started at 44.
I have to see cardiologist tomorrow for results on stress test and echo for clearance letter and then everything will be sent to insurance. Once I get approved and get a date I'll work on loosing even more weight to prepare for surgery. They say the lighter you are the faster recovery. It can't come soon enough the summer is coming and I'm praying to take off at the very least 50 lbs by then.

I have been exercising maintenance afraid of denial for loosing too much weight as of now I lost about 26 lbs and my BMI is 39 and it started at 44.
I have to see cardiologist tomorrow for results on stress test and echo for clearance letter and then everything will be sent to insurance. Once I get approved and get a date I'll work on loosing even more weight to prepare for surgery. They say the lighter you are the faster recovery. It can't come soon enough the summer is coming and I'm praying to take off at the very least 50 lbs by then.

I was discussing this journey of mine with my husband and he said a stupid thing tonight
"Why don't you just eat an apple a day for a month and you'll lose weight" ......that's how ridiculous people are sometimes.

Waiting on the call from surgeons office with surgery date.

I went to see my surgeon today it was also the last required appointment with NUT.
All required testing are completed the blood work, EKG, chest X ray, H-pylori breath test, sleep study, cardiologist clearance, psychiatrist clearance, psychologist clearance.
All my paperwork will be submitted to my insurance company and now I just have to wait to see if I'm approved for surgery.
Doctor said the patient navigator will be giving me a call with surgery date.
Time went by fast and another 1 or 2 won't hurt to wait for decision.

I went to see my surgeon today it was also the last required appointment with NUT.
All required testing are completed the blood work, EKG, chest X ray, H-pylori breath test, sleep study, cardiologist clearance, psychiatrist clearance, psychologist clearance.
All my paperwork will be submitted to my insurance company and now I just have to wait to see if I'm approved for surgery.
Doctor said the patient navigator will be giving me a call with surgery date.
Time went by fast and another 1 or 2 won't hurt to wait for decision.

My surgery will probably be sometime in February my doctor said on next appt January 28th we will set a date I'm glad this will be happening in winter so by summer when it's hot I'll be lighter.

I just did this today and am rapt I found this section of the site!! Still a long way to oh but at least I don't mind taking photos again!!

I am 23 years old and decided to have the gastric sleeve after seeing 5 of my family members get it and no complaints or regrets from any of them seeing how I am the youngest of sll 5 we all thought I would bounce back fast and have a speedy recovery no problems well we were sure wrong. I went into surgery September 21st didn't go home the next day as planned because my stomach was swollen so I went home the following day after that I was very nauseated could not hold anything down I was admitted into the the hospital three times for nausea so I could get fluids well the thirds time I'm laying in the hospital bed getting comfortable to go to bed for the night untill I felt a huge pop in my chest along with sudden pain in my chest and left shoulder it brought me to tears I could no breath correctly I was panting and could not take a deep breath the nurse and doctor that night thought I was have spasms I stayed in this severe pain for acouple days with my heart hate at 149 and my blood pressure high along with the intern doctor and nurses being rude telling me I needed to push through the pain and walk it out so my surgery team performed test and one evening the intern doctor comes into my room and diagnosis me with it being my anxiety and needing to walk that there was nothing wrong all along I'm in tears because the pain is excruciating as she just finished talking the surgeon walks into my room and tells me I'm going to surgery I have a gastric leak. I was moved to DOU the direct observation unit one step down from icu well right from waking up from surgery I felt great no pain at all I thought that was the end of the story.i did wake up from surgery with a drain coming out of the left side of my stomach and a tube coming out of my nose well the next day the a doctor said the tube in my nose was keencked so he had to fix it while he was shoving the tube up and down I again felt a pop I immediately made him take the whole tube out and told them something was wrong I'm having the same pain again so they checked and the new staple sure enough popped off again this time my surgery team decided to put a stent a few days after the stent was placed I was able to go home my blood pressure and heart rate resumed back to normal. This whole process was about 4 weeks the whole time in the hospital I was not able to see my daughter who is 1 years old only children 13 and older are allowed in the hospital.i finally went home a little bit before Halloween with the stent implanted which means no food of any kind only liquids and the stent had to be in for 6 weeks.the stent literally took the life out of me my chest was in pain I was stayed in bed all day I could not interact with my daughter or family members my body felt completely weak I had no energy at all.well I go to my doctor appointment with my surgeon 4 weeks after having the stent in me and it was to remove the drain from my stomach well acouple days before my appointment I noticed I had really bad stomach cramps and I didn't feel the pain from the stent in my chest I felt it lower. So I tell my surgeon as soon as he comes into the room well my heart rate was in the 140s again and my blood pressure was elevated again so immediately he told me he was admitting me into the hospital so there I go again getting admitted into the hospital once agian the day after my daughters 2nd birthday. Well One of the test showed that the stent had moved down so I had surgery again and there goal was to just move it back up well they couldn't get it to move up so they took the whole stent out. It was the best feeling. I immediately felt like the life was brought back into me I was in no pain just sore. I was discharged from the hospital the next day and now am able to function I'm still recovering and am not pushing myself but I'm now able to play with my daughter get her ready evreything I missed doing.
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