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Cranberry was used for thrush but sounds like a reaction to your antibiotics. Or are you using an under the tongue medicine?

You look handsome. Great job. Help us if you can anything that helped to keep motivating you would be great

My pre surgery diet is 4 shakes a day less than 5 grams fat and 7 grams carb/ sugar. 1 8oz v 8 juice low sodium 1 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt 2 6oz beef bone or chicken bone broth Sugar free jello 1/2 cup 64 oz water. My calories are at 918 and grams of protein is 118.

I use Quest they are awesome the use dehydrated banana strawberry peanut in there different flavors instead of artificial flavors. Love the 100 calories and it’s more filling for me then the other brands.

I’m m the 29 th we are almost there:)

Remember that song. “ I love big butts I cannot lie. “. Can’t get it out of my head. LOL

You are strong smart and a winner. I thought all of these comments from our support group super great. If and when you see the surgeon again. Let him know that chatting with him helped you to remember that you will be working with a professional trainer again so you can truly sculpt your new body and the more muscle the faster you burn fat. Be happy to give the doctor a professional recommendation for a trainer for himself to get fit. Just an idea :). lol

If you have already met with the surgeon your ok. for my insurance it’s based on completion of the 6 month supervised weight loss then BMI at or above 40 when meeting the surgeon then free to loose as much as you can before surgery.

I use the fairlife non fat milk with the Quest protein powder. You could just drink 2/3 of theFairlife shake add some water or almond milk to it so you don’t have as much sugar at 1 time. Just a thought

Great job. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. You have a gift with writing. :)

That’s what happened to me I lost my requirement of weight the first 3 months had to aimtsin the next 4 month and surgeon meet with me and insurance full approval. I have 6 weeks until surgery and gave the go ahead to lose again. So hope to loose 8 pounds now and another 10. On the 2 week liquid diet. I’m glad I had to experience the maintenance for 4 months it was hard and messes with your head. Check out some of the other topics about maintenance.

No I was responding to frust8

Sept 5 th is awesome. No worries ok mine is August 29 so I will plow the field for you. All good

I’m scheduled for August 29 th. Can’t wait to start liquid diet on the 14 th. I’m in North eastern Pennsylvania Wilkes-Barre Scranton anybody else near me?

For my husband and I we now spend $200 per month don’t eat out and we use to spend $400. I quit cigarettes and booze and that saves a it per day. You can drop your food bill by up to 50% if you don’t buy junk. I make our own bread and bone broth. And splurge on fresh lemon limes avocado. You can do this buy fresh and not pre made.

Awesome good luck

I have lost enough pre op that I have about 75 pounds left to loose but I’m having the bypass because of gerd and that my Metabolism level is so low that bypass helps with the malabsorption which can help me maintain my weight loss longer

Aw some I’ll think of you having surgery when I start my liquid diet. You will be rockin it. Can’t wait to join you to get healthy and wise.

I also in North Eastern Pa. Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre. Anybody close by??

I just got my Surgery date August 29 I’m so jazzed. Finally it’s almost here. Started this process 1/14/18 down 25 pounds looking forward to my 2 weeks of liquid shakes. Let’s get this done so by Christmas we will be in wonder land. :)

You are to have about 400-600 Calories and drink every hour. Usually 2-3 oz only a a time. Proteins shake wait 30 min the skim milk wait 30 then water then broth then protein shake. So every hour it should take about 20-30 minutes to drink your 2-3 oz then wait 30 min then on to the next. Usually this is for 2 weeks then it’s time for puréed. Go on to Pinterest and look for post bariatric surgery menu.

I’m all for In and Out. Protein style is great on low card but animal style is the BOMB. just saying

Ketosis makes things taste sweeter and some thing like metal.

Every hour you should be having liquid 20-30 min rest then either 2 oz shake then next time nonfat milk then next water then shake the repeat

I’m at Gesienger in Scranton get to meet my surgeon next week.