Autumn Riley Arnold

Man, they MUST eat where you can't see them! It is beyond rude for them to eat in front of you when you are struggling with this! Tell them to eat in another room away from you, please! You need their support!

Oh that's not so bad! Thanks! Now I just have to remember to take them all. I have to take 4 a day of the one, and 2 at night of the other. That's a lot of pills! lol

Yes, you need to be getting in at least 80 grams of protein a day!

Try weighing yourself once a month. Then it won't be so disappointing when you don't lose much some weeks.

My doctor said to aim for one bite per minute. Great!!! Thank you so much! I was really wondering about that! Thanks!

Can you take GasX?

28 days? That's insane! It's not like you're 600 pounds or something! I don't understand why you have to do this for so long! I'm so sorry girl! Just try to constantly think that you HAVE to do this for your surgery! You want your surgery to go well, so it just needs to be done! And honestly, after about a week, most of the intense hunger pains will subside. Try to stick it out for another week and you will feel less hungry.

I really feel like I will be! What just worries me is getting denied. Like I watch My 600 Pound Life and there are so many people who don't take it seriously. They think the surgery is like magic and they won't have to do any work to lose the weight! They cheat constantly and so they don't lose any weight and then they have the nerve to wonder why! But THEY get approved for the surgery yet here I am reading everything I can so I can get the most out of it and I'm probably gonna be one of the ones that is denied. I might be worried for nothing, but wouldn't that just be how it would go ironically? lol!

I was completely put to sleep

I haven't had surgery yet, but on my own I dropped 21 pounds and I can actually feel my waist now! It's so nice when I put my hands on my waist and it goes IN! =D

You are probably at the point now that you can do about an hour a day of some serious cardio! If you do that, the weight will drop really fast! Good luck, girl! You got this!

Oh, thank you so much! I'm so worried that I'll be denied because of it! Do you know how long it takes to get them under control? I've been on 2 meds for it for 1 week.

Yeah absolutely no pain and you feel really loopy afterwards. Which is very nice. lol

I'm just starting too. I have 4 more things on my check list to do before I can, hopefully, be approved. We can chat if you'd like =)

No, I have not. It was just the day after my endoscopy that he called in 2 ulcer medications to my pharmacy. I'm just really worried that it won't work and I'll be denied!

I did it! =D Thanks, girl

How do I put those cute little weight tracker things at the bottom of each of my posts that I see some of you have? =D

I don't see the option to add it =/

Thanks

That's true about walking. I got the band in 2012, but it was messed up so they removed it. But 2 hours after surgery they had me up and walking.

In 2012 I got the gastric band. Because of extreme bleeding, they had to completely open me. Unfortunately, something went wrong with the band and it had to be removed the next day. I understand, because of that, the amount of pain I was in. So my worry and concern is even though we all handle pain differently, how much pain is there from the gastric bypass surgery and how long does it typically last?

Very true =)

Thank you =) It's definitely not easy staying sober, but I take it one day at a time

I'm nervous that I might not get approved for the surgery by the psychiatrist that I see because I have a history of depression, anxiety and am a recovering addict. I've even been hospitalized for attempted suicide and once for drug induced psychosis. (Not the proudest moment in my life, needless to say.) This all happened years ago and I am on an anti depressant and an anti bipolar medicine that has stabilized my mood. I haven't been depressed or suicidal or used drugs since 2012. But what if they ask me about depression, prior drug use and hospitalization. Or if they get all my medical information and this causes them to fail me. Not sure what to do.

Ok, cool. I feel much more relieved now =) thank you!