Fit4Re

I was approved with a tentative surgery date for April 17th. I don't have to do the 2 week liquid diet, just a low card diet but have to go liquid 2 days before the surgery. My plans is to do a 2 Meal Replacement shake with 1 meal. I've been having a lot of food funerals so I don't want to gain anymore weight before surgery. My last food funeral with be at my all time favorite burger joint The Vortex! I'm tired of eating and I'm ready to start my new way of life!!!

Not sure how other sleevers have figured out how to keep their food from getting cold by taking 30-45 minutes to eat, but I ordered this online for me. I know...it's for babies...but it'll work for me with Portion Control as well. Here's the link if anyone is interested:

Green Sprouts Warming Plate

I was approved with a tentative surgery date for April 17th. I don't have to do the 2 week liquid diet, just a low card diet but have to go liquid 2 days before the surgery. My plans is to do a 2 Meal Replacement shake with 1 meal. I've been having a lot of food funerals so I don't want to gain anymore weight before surgery. My last food funeral with be at my all time favorite burger joint The Vortex! I'm tired of eating and I'm ready to start my new way of life!!!

A) To your insurance company, you are not an individual. They cater to the least common denominator to make sure everyone has your nutrition knowledge - in their minds, it's better to over-educate you than under-educate someone else. Given some of the questions I've seen on here over the last several months, some people still aren't getting enough education.

To your quote I left above - ever think that's the point? A six month wait is a giant staring contest. If you blink first and quit, they win because they don't have to pay. They hope people are overwhelmed by all the hoops and drop out. This was my surgeon's opinion too, by the way.

Hang in there. You are so close to winning the staring contest a d getting what you want. Sometimes in life, we have to play games we don't want to...

Anyone not wanting to read a rant, exit now.
I'm pissed. I've had to go through the motions for five months now for my six month waiting period before I can have surgery, which is scheduled for April 17th. I'm pissed because everything I learned from the nutritionist, I had learned before on the million other diets I've tried and the forums I've read. She told me that most people, at the end, say that they are so happy that they had this time to learn and prepare. I'm not. I'm just pissed that I had to wait.

My mother did not have to wait for six months before her breast cancer surgery so she could learn to live with breast cancer.

My niece did not have to wait for six months before receiving insulin so she could learn how to live with Type 1 Diabetes.

Why the hell do we have to wait? It feels punitive. Like saying "hey fatasses, you get to wait and be fatasses some more! Why? Because we feel like it!!!"

I went to see my shrink because of all of the anger I was feeling and that one mental health counseling session accomplished more than any meeting with the nutritionist.

I'm headed to the nutritionist now to hear other stuff that I've already read about or already know. My lunch hour wasted.

I'm almost to the point of throwing my hands up and saying F%*K it.

That is great that you don't have do a diet I'm doing diet starting April 3 but I can eat green veggie and turkey chicken breast tuna and fish just day before is clear liquid my surgery is April 17