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Dear BariatricPal Staff, I've noticed that there is a forum titled "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Sleevers" and I take issue with this since the word "transgendered" isn't a word because "transgender" is an adjective, not a verb. I can raid your fridge (though I shouldn't), that fridge was raided. I can weigh myself in the morning after going to the washroom, I was weighed. I can post a topic on BariatricPal about how "transgendered" isn't a word, that topic was posted. I can defrost some chicken for dinner and serve it with lentils, that chicken was defrosted. No one can be "transgendered" because transgender is an adjective, not a verb, in the same sense that no one can be "blacked", "gayed", "Asianed", etc.

Exactly, the weight at home on your scale is likely to be different from the weight on the doctor's scale. Basically, at home, I weigh myself naked first thing in the morning after using the washroom. This is so that I have a baseline: the weight of clothes and other such stuff doesn't interfere. This isn't some cheap scale that I found at Goodwill either, it's a Withings scale which syncs my weight to the cloud (which is actually kinda cool, because it allows me to graph it and see patterns and progress). At the doctor's office, I would be genuinely surprised if I DIDN'T weigh differently. Different scale, I'm clothed and I've had at a bare minimum at least 1 litre of water. Of course, I wake up at 5:00 am every morning, so there is a difference in time as well.

It's possible that I might be getting my sleeve in August. I'm still in the process of finishing up my medical weight loss classes (I'll be finished on the 13th of July) but I have been very proactive. I have an appointment with my regular therapist (who has already told me that she is comfortable with giving me the clearance) the day after my final class so I can have it ready for the first pre-op appointment. I'm about as complete as one can be (though I have been having some difficulty in getting my primary care provider's practice to release my medical records), so I'm hoping that because of my proactive stance, that I'll be able to have surgery in late August. ... However, early or mid-September is also possible. After all, I was told in the patient education seminar that it does take 6-8 weeks to get clearance from insurance.

I'm not in the "pre-op" phase yet (I have two more medical weight loss classes to endure), but I have heard that the surgeons at Northern Colorado Surgical Associates won't perform surgery if you've gained weight during the pre-op process. Beyond that, they have a pre-op diet that seems to be simply "use your best judgment" and I haven't found anything to contradict that in the Bariatric Centre of the Rockies handbook. ... Though, I'm so hoping I'm wrong because that just doesn't seem wise.

So, I heard that DietBet had a sister programme called StepBet that allows you to "bet" on whether or not you'll make a target number of steps. In order to sign up, you have to download the app and let it load for a little while to calculate what level of activity would be appropriate for you. ... And the problem starts when it starts trying to depend on my Apple Watch's data. I have (or rather, had) one of the first generation Apple Watches and I loved using it. It made it easy to keep a more accurate count of your steps when you go somewhere without your phone. However, there is one problem: it's really not water-proof. I figured this out when I accidentally fell into a lake and shorted out the watch. This isn't saying that the Health app isn't recording step data (it is) or that StepBet doesn't allow you to use the step count from the Health app (they do). It is saying, however, that if you had an Apple Watch and no longer have it for whatever reason, StepBet won't let you register.