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I'm approved surgery is 12/26 started my preop diet yesterday but I'm going to officially start tomorrow

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Thank you yo all will do fine when you go in good luck to all of you

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Sitting here in the “show your bum” hospital gown, grateful for the paper undies!
Now it is here, in an hour, I am less nervous.
Like all of you, I will rock this thing.
xx

I’m doing pretty darn good. Everyday I’m more back to normal. I sleep more at night but the daytime napping is resolved. I don’t have anymore pain, just a small area of discomfort.
Im on full liquids and moving to purée on Monday with my first surgeon appt on the 20th for follow up. I believe I will be down 20 pounds by then lol.

I'm super nervous I'm going in tomorrow.

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Good luck! Let us know the outcome of course!

Pre-surgery appointment later this morning where I will get my surgery date. It still looks like a December surgery. Fingers crossed!

Lots of surgeries coming up still. Praying everyone else that has had surgery this month is doing well. Don’t be shy, come update us how you are!

Thank you! The recovery from this surgery has been hard. I don’t know that anything can prepare someone for it. A good support system is vital and a great plastic surgery team. I am very glad I went to Dr Cardenas because not only did her and the team do a wonderful job but they continue to check on me and I have access to her nurse 24-7. She’s extremely responsive and puts my mind at ease when I’m having a neurotic episode lol.

Totally-tentative-doesn’t-really-count-kind-of-tentative date of Dec 28. [emoji4][emoji119]

Congrats!!! And I'm sure everything is fine, if you're check patient portal it could just not be updating correctly. My appointment for ekg took forever to update on there.

That's awesome That's exactly what happened with me

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It was really quick. I was in and out for both the upper GI and the EKG in under 20 minutes total. They did both in the same room. (They were able to see my reflux as it happened and my hiaital hernia, which was kind of interesting.) I expect to see the surgeon on Wednesday and set a date for surgery. Still aiming for the 28th. Fingers crossed!

Awesome!!! How did it go?

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Yes that's right! I forgot that they DO have them in large quantities, just not the smaller ones. Thanks for posting that!

I got gas x strips off Amazon (6 boxes) last week. Cost me $60 or so. They didn’t have any less, only a pack of 6 but I scooped them up since they aren’t in store anymore

I'm also 12/18 for RNY.

Nassau universery medical center has residency in plastics
they are in east meadow NY
i was getting fungus infections between rolls Insurance denied. Total cost was
$3000. I appealed to Nys and they made insurance co reimburse me

@jenn1 No wonder I ya girlie! You're a sausage hoe just like me! I could eat it 3 meals in a row every day! Your menu looks so textbook beautiful you should be the poster child for maintenance! Can't wait until I'm where you are!

12/8/17
(three years out)
breakfast
(2) dannon light n fit yogurt
(2) Jimmy dean turkey Breakfast sausage links
snack
(1) al fresco sweet apple chicken sausage
Lunch
(3.4oz) canned chicken
(3oz) dole bag salad
(2oz) avocado
Snack
Quest BBQ Protein chips (2oz) mozzarella cheese (3oz) salsa
Dinner
(4oz) Smoked salmon
(3.5oz) steamed french green Beans
(.5 oz) sliced almonds
577 calorie burn workout - snack after workout: (1.2 oz) PB2 (1 teaspoon) Hershey's Sugar Free Chocolate chip minis

First off, congratulations on your weight loss so far!
I am pre-op so take my feedback from that perspective. It sounds to me like you know what to do to get back on track and you're doing it. I would also suggest that you decide how much food you're going to eat before you weigh and measure. 1 cup? 1/2 cup? 800 calories, etc. Wherever you feel you "should" be right now. And then stick with that. Go back to basics. Take a bite and put down your fork while you chew chew chew. I'm nervous about doing the same thing and these are some tips I'm trying to hold on to.
I would also encourage you not to think of this time period as a stall. It's not a stall, but a response to moving away from good habits. If you get back into your good habits you should start seeing the weight come off again.
I think it's really smart and you are scheduled with your psych. I would also schedule with your NUT as well. Get a check on what you're eating and how much and tactical ways to better control your intake while you are also getting the mental health support to manage the whys.
Best of luck!!

NSV: so i randomly went jean shopping and the size 4 actually fit, and really fit. I thought i was going to have to squeeze into them for dear life lol. I've been fat my whole life so this is new to me. The fact that i'm actually a small still blows my mind, but yet the scale still says im overweight smh. I'm still going to view this as a victory.

I eat fast food for lunch a lot. chipotle a lot. or get a lettuce wrapped burger and eat a portion of it. I go to taco bell, panda express I get teriyaki chicken - no sauce and steamed veggies , when I go to restaurant's I get a medium rare steak and end up losing weight the next day lol I guess these may be bad habits but I get my Protein in and enjoy myself. I've lost 49 lbs, I'll be 5 months post up in 9 days... I'm averaging 10lb loss a month - 50 lbs in 5 months seems good to me...it could probably be more if I ate a little better and worked out more but i'm happy.

Ok...this comment is sure to bring out the haters, but I eat out about once or twice a week. Fast food and sit down. I'm 13 months out and 110lbs down.
Fast food is usually a quarter pound patty - no bread. I order the small fries and eat about 5 (or I steal a few from the kids)
Breakfast - side of eggs, side of sausage (eat about half the sausage)
Last night for dinner I had about 2/3 of a Sonic cheese coney dog (regular size not the footlong)
Regardless of what I eat...I stay within my calories and prioritize my Protein.
I also workout 6 times a week and take my transformation very seriously and I continue to lose because I am committed to losing weight and committed to not going backwards. If I started to gain...I would cut it out immediately.

I'm so happy for you!!!!
So true story. Yesterday I was driving back from PT. And I'm hugely proud of myself for going 3 times per week. You have to know, I'm doing BABBBBYYY exercises and am seriously de-conditioned and have Fluid around my heart. But you know, at least I'm doing it for 1 solid hour. And I embarrassingly break a sweat while doing these tiny exercises.
Afterwards, I'm always starving. Like Starvin' Marvin status. And I'm driving home and pass a Whataburger. And for some reason I think of My 600lb Life show and how they seem to love showing the people go through a drive thru and secretly eat in the car before coming home to make dinner. And I just got this huge rush of pride that I don't do those things. No judgements. But for some reason, I guess cuz Mr. F. knows everything about me, I've never hidden my huge appetite from him. So I don't sneak eat. But I got home, grabbed a healthy snack before heading out the door with Mr. F. to go to Lowe's to go buy a wooden board to make a Christmas tree stand. Now don't get me wrong...after Lowe's I BEGGED and PLEADED to stop for Whataburger Chix Strips. But Mr. F. has already received the memo not to feed the Gremlins when they're hungry and beggin...LOL.
When I was driving from PT to home it was just a surreal feeling of being another person...like, small baby changes...