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Waiting to hear the answers myself, in the same position. As long as,my journey is going, I might even have enough saved up for it!!! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you Janet, now that I see it I beleive I can do it with a dose of Resolve and surgery. I am recommited now! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hmm I had a hospital gown on, commando Naked underneath.

You are now in the official weight loss groove. Doesn't it feel like a victory? It is you know, and now you move on to become a veteran and mentor all the newbies and to me, because I still haven't made it to the Triumphful Losers Bench. Ah but I shall--- for as long as I draw breath ---there is still hope for me! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Now you start healing, smiling and losing some more weight. Sounds like things are under control at your house. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And are you doing pretty good, Mattymatt? So,proud and happy for you and your future! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Way to go darlin way to go! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Let's try this again. No diabetes, consider & I hope a good portion go away. See what happens when I get sleepy? I can't spell diabetes but I can spell antihypertensive. That happens only if you're brilliant and dyslexic! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

This is your day You are on your way Congratulations dear melsabells Have a smooth surgery Then heal really,well. You haveall,this,cat,under contro., only good things will be in your future. Give us an update,. we will be waiting to hear from you!l Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Another small one. When I went to fill out application at OSU they wanted a list of medications, they had space for 9. Surprise I have many more than thst, luckily i,was a printout from last PCP visit they could print off of. I hope dome of those will be v deleted post surgery. Pretty awesome when you c ondider there are no great fiabetes, no antihypertendive, thete,is 1 migraine, 1 wellbutrin but a bunch and a half others. So,i hope a good portion go away. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

So how many months long was it for you? My son has Caresource, he has gone to seminars etc with me, went to a seminar for program #2, this wiil be at OSU-Wexner Medical Center in Columbus Ohio. He technically would qualify himself with a comorbidity of 37BMI, found out he would have to go 9 months. Thought he might follow me through bit he says Not Yet. If he's not ready I'm not going to pressure him. If he has a "come to Jesus" moment he knows the steps because he got a bariatric folder also. Good thing because I have been known to misplace things. Well I know they are here, I just forgot where I laid them down. Worst was the day I thought,i had lost my glasses and they were on the top of my headm. But I was prepared to get frantic if necessary! ,,,,,,,,if ou have any questions to ask, please feel free to, if I don't have an answer someone on Bariatric Pal will. Welcome again, please stay and be our friend! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And you will get the hang of it, it's a different way of thinking about food, it is fuel, not entertainment, not your only friend, it doesn't understand you but you need to understand it and bend it to your will, not the will of the food bending you. You'll learn Fast food is Not Good Food, my grandma said" A moment on the,lips, Forever on the Hips", I hated to think she was right. Fast food has no conscience, it exists to ensnare you in its seductive web. It is quick, readily accessible and we've been trained to,love it mindlessly. As an example the Happy Meal, containing a gooey little hamburger or cheeseburger, greasy French fries and a plastic toy that may or may not gouge out your little eye. Now in recent years it's reformed a little but the premise still remains, its the only little boxed meal thats "HAPPY", Mc Donalds probably has the name trademarked. And I am a sadder but wiser former participant in their little army. I still carry their shrapnel as 2 big buttocks, wide enough to show drive- in movies on . And having been there so long, as I lose weight, they are pockmarked and flabby. And their evil compatriots Long John Silver's, In and Out Burger, Carl Jr/Hardees, Checkers/Rallys, Fritches Big Boy, they all were gunning for me. I worshipped at Church's Fried chicken , I had more food spouses than a polygamist.Now it's hard to divorce them all, human nature is to keep one or two somewhere in the background, but no no no they all got to go! Sorry if I sound preachy but I hasn't been easy to rid myself of years of excess, calories that is. Sniffle sniffle. But you will win your battles just as I will. And your dietician will be a helper in steering you the right way. Listen and Learn. I'm going to the kitchen to make sure nobody snuck into the pantry. They are devious! Bye now! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hi susunorm, welcome to this forum and welcome to Bariatric Pal. We are here to help, we hope you'll like us and want to stay with us a while. If you have any questions, just ask, if I can I'll be happy to answer, if not someone else may have an insight on that subject. We are all individuals but,we each bring a perspective to the travel along the Bariatric Highway, we are co-journeyers to health, fitness and a lower weight. Aren't any of us perfect but we do give it our best shot and doggone if we don't hit the dang- blasted target most of the time. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I am a horrid housekeeper. Family joke: if the police came in they'd find evidence of a struggle. My project for tonight--- clear off the couch. I have bariatric papers lying on one end. Thought I'd better put them in the file cabinet before they got lost or thrown out with the newspapers What are the newspapers doing there? My son and heir to my miniscule fortune put them there when he was finished reading them. Why are they still there? Because last night was trash night and he didn't want to fill up another bag. Ah- life at Chez frust8 is like a soap opera, its cluttered but its warm and it's home. Besides he assured me nothing is on the floor so I'll fall down on it, of course not,its there on the flippin couch. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I do too, that's why I hang out or lurk, whatever you call it, on Bariatric Pal, a lot of times when I share advice it reaffirmed the truths in my own mind. I do know better nut I am imperfect at times. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Some of it,you will re establish a relationship with, if it is something basically good. You'll have a grownup relationship, a couple bites will satisfy you or you may lose your taste for it. People say even Water can taste sweet afterwards. You may want things seasoned differently or no seasoning at all. I also am presurg, now before you discount my advice, I have gastritis, in many ways I've had to go into post surgery mode. I can't eat large portions at a time, I used to engulf my food like an aomeba so it didn't get away. I have in the past ate leftovers so I didn't have to refrigerate them. Now cake sickens me, bread products sit in my tummy like a frozen hockey puck, some meats I can't keep down if I manage to swallow them. I wonder if I'll end up vegan before I'm thru? What sounds good? Vegetables especially microwaved sweet potatoes, no butter, no brown sugar, just split it open and eat. Tofu and sometimes broth. These are all things after surg people eat also. Why aren't I losing faster?, I'm not exercising except in my house, when it's warmer I'll be walking more. I have 2 knee replacements so I'll walk in smaller spurts but I will do it. And sometimes I eat dinner later than 7 pm. Well I just do not get around to doing it earlier. I am still having trouble convincing my son I don't want his large portion size, I guess he worries about me, at least I rationalize it that way. I have tried every diet up to and including starvation, don't work. I need the tool of surgery! Have I rambled on long enough? I am not immune to struggle, I just try to overcome to the best of my ability. Get some good quality rest, tomorrow is another day and you need your strength. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Use a version of one of my late mamma's habits and it used to drive me bonkers. She would hold her medications in her hand and talk to them. She would say" if I take you what will you do to or for me?" So say to the food " if I eat you, what will you do to me?" if it is going to just make you fatter, make you sick to your stomach, break out in hives or give you diarrhea or constipation, just pass on by, don't stop to reach out for it! You're bigger than it, smarter than it, stop listening if it calls out to you or whispers your name. You have a new goal in life, you do not want swerve from it. Oh it will try to seduce you back into,its web, you have been a friend for years. Like a controlling boyfriend it doesn't want to break up the relationship. Divorce MickyD's,abandon KFC, and tell Church's Fried chicken you're no longer worshiping there! Buck up, Bucky Beaver, you KNOW what to do, I believe in you and given the chance you'll do the correct thing! We are here for you Every step of the way, we've been tempted and we've overcame. You can too. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

How about changing up your exercise level or do a different variety? Shake your body out of complacency and start losing again. How are you doing with fluids? Others have said it started coming down when they increased them. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

What we need is an app, you feed in at: say 300, it would show you what you would look at 250, 200 and 150 and say your goal weight of 135. I would love the royalties off of that! Has any intelligent Web Geek come up with that yet? Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

My friend is now 63 and the last time we were together at the beach it still would win no prizes. I always wondered if her OB used a steak knife instead of a scalpel.! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Ooh I like that! Now I know why Jersey Girls Rock! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

If it is,mild you might be able to get away with a sleeve since you're so young but surgeons usually steer you towards a RnY because with that you don't reflux stomach acid back up. Follow your surgeon's advice he's taken part in more surgeries than me and my not-quite-yet one. I'm satisfied with my own decision. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Sometimes they also Cat scan or X Ray you, it will depend on what your surgeon wants to see about you. On my endoscopy report I had color pictures of my esophagus, stomach and upper small intestine, all pretty healthy except for gastritis, GERD and Hector my baby gastric ulcer, my RnY should help with all that. How did I get Hector? Too many NSAIDS taken for arthritis pain, I was taking 3-4 ibuprofen at a time. Now I have grouchy little Hector as a gift, he is the gift that keeps on hurting instead of giving. And yes in the US you are usually asleep, my last one was effortless and absolutely no pain after. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

So I will suplement with Iron , hopefully a chelated variety, Dr Weiner says that's the best, see some are taking Ferrous Fumerate. I can so do this! Those prices don't seem so bad, maybe I can swing that! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Libra having an Aries surgery, all I can say is: May the Stars be with You! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app