Ed_NW

Wow, you look beautiful. You're a real inspiration.

I was on a 6 month diet so I could get under 50 BMI. I'm at 46 now so I guess that's why I don't have to do the strict 2 week pre-op liquid diet. I think 50 is the magic number the doctors go by.

It seems like it's been forever since I started this journey back in April of this year but I'm happy to announce that I will finally be able to consider myself post-op after December 17th. Fingers crossed, hopefully my blood work and pre-op physical turn out good and everything goes as planned. Wish me luck!

I'm 52 and will have RNY on 12/17.

I just had my pre surgery consultation on Tuesday and am scheduled for surgery on the 17th. I have to do a low carb high protein diet to shrink my liver then the day before I do liquids only to make sure everything is empty and ready for surgery. Congratulations and good luck!

The funny thing is, from the time I attended the class in July until now, the dieting and prep requirements have gotten less strict. They were requiring a colonoscopy style bowel cleansing. I wasn't looking forward to that. LOL

Congratulations to you as well! I might do 2 days liquid too just to make sure everything goes well.

Thanks, My surgeon only requires a one day full liquid diet but I have to continue a restricted calorie diet between now in my surgery date.

I started the process back in April of this year (I think) and I don't even meet the surgeon to discuss what surgery I will be getting until Dec 4th. It's really frustrating when you see other people moving along at a quick pace and I'm stuck in the pre-op diet mode. This just seems like another diet that I'm tired of being on already. This is why I fail at diets. I've lost a lot of weight up to this point but now that I've reached the weight that I'm required to be at for surgery, I've stopped tracking what I eat. I just half heatedly follow a Keto diet and hope it stays off util my appointment on the 4th of next month. Who knows when the actual surgery will be scheduled. I heard through the grape vine that one of the two surgeons that perform WLS at Kaiser Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, WA quit and now there's only one to take on the enormous work load. That would explain the excruciatingly long wait. Anybody else experiencing frustration like this?

Click on your name then click on my surgery. On the left side click on the different options to change things in each field.

My Nutritionist said we could use products with Stevia Leaf Extract.

This girl (Dixie) from Canada got the DS with a single anastomosis done. She went to Mexico for the procedure. I really enjoyed watching her videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH3PTxZoYAKmz5cCCsuLKyg/videos?flow=grid&view=0&sort=da

I don't know much about the subject but congratulations on the expected one!

There's sooo many goofy theories out there about weight loss surgery. You took the step of educating yourself. Sometimes it seems like a lonely journey on the home front but it's your journey. It can be exhausting trying to educate other people and ultimately it's your health that's at stake. Keep following other people's WLS journeys on here and on YouTube and you will put your fears to rest in no time.

Thanks for understanding and for the advice. I was thinking about going back on Kaiser's diet about 4 weeks before meeting the surgeon. Hopefully once we meet the ball will get moving and I will feel that forward momentum again.

Thanks, I did call and send a message through the Kaiser message board like they require me to do but I think because of the chaos of losing one of their doctors, it fell on def ears.

Post op will be different considering the fact that I will have the "tool" that we are all after (or already have like in your case). I never used the words "ready to give up". I will never give up, I'm just sharing my frustration with the people on this forum that are pre op like me that don't have a definite date for their surgery. I don't know if you are able to reflect on your own mental battles before your first WLS but I'm sure the uncertainty was a bit of a mind @%&*.

@Frustr8 said this should be a thread so here it is. LOL Typing and the metric system are two that might have been ignored in high school (discussed in another thread). Whoodathunk? hehe...

You should go to urgent care and get on antibiotics asap! That's not good.

Good for you! I hope you have other people besides him for support.

Red meat is hard for the body to digest. If your Doc and Nut said to eat more red meat, you probably need iron. Supplement with protein drinks and eat less dense meats (ground) so your body can absorb them. The bypass has the largest impact on your body's ability to absorb nutrients (compared to VSG). Experiment with different vitamins (like liquid) and drink powerade zero or the like to replenish electrolytes, etc. It sounds like an absorption issue. Ask your Dr. about that.

Put some protein water in a flask to make it more exciting.

It seems like in the older WLS videos I watched, they would automatically take it out. I think there are better medicines now to prevent gallstones. I know rapid weight loss will cause stones unless you're medicated. I wonder if while they are poking around in there, they can tell if you have stones and then cut that thing out?

You're already bulked up. You just need to keep up on your protein intake to repair those ripped pecks you're going to develop.

Probably just sodium causing a little water retention. You'll be good.