PurpleBloom

Good evening,
Just wanted to give an update..
I’m a month and 2 weeks out of surgery. My scale reflects only a 4 pound weight loss but as frustr8 and gradycat mentioned I’m losing inches. In fact I’m fitting pants that are 2 sizes smaller.
So please keep following the diet and stay encouraged.. the weight loss will come.
Thank you all again for boosting my spirits.

Hi everyone!
I'm so sorry I'm late to the discussion. I've wanted to join you here since February but my dietician discouraged me and I listened to her. I really regret it now. It's so hard to find people in "real life" that understand what's about to happen. Even those who I thought were "getting it" are proving to be a disappointment. I was talking to a good friend today about how hard the first few days of the liquid diet has been and she said "oh yeah, I know, just like stopping alcohol." Well, I've never done that, but I don't think so. Alcohol isn't necessary to maintain life; food is.
Anyhow, I wish everyone here wellness and courage!
My surgery is April 9th. From what I can tell that makes me #6? I'm nervous, scared, wondering if I'm doing the right thing. My main goal is not weight loss but putting diabetes into remission and my surgeon assures me that based on what has happened during my preop period I will leave the hospital on no diabetes meds!! (During the time between my first visit with him and last visit 5 months later, I worked really hard, got my eating disorder into remission, started eating intuitively, started exercising regularly, lost 30 pounds and cut my insulin need in half. A primary care doc asked me if I wouldn't like to keep on that path for a while before going for surgery but I said no, I don't think weight loss alone offers very good odds at ditching diabetes.)
I've struggled pretty intensely with this liquid diet at times. I have a personality that wants to know all the whys (beyond just shrinking the liver and getting used to eating less) and I feel like my dietician has been a bit less than forthcoming. I finally got her to explain that it puts us into ketosis and now that I've done some reading about ketosis and understand that my body and brain aren't being STARVED, I'm feeling less anxious and better able to tolerate the discomfort.
Again, I'm so sorry to arrive late.
Oh, and to answer the questions, I think they show up on the sidebar (I'm new to the forum stuff), except that I don't know a goal weight, isn't that nuts? No one ever discussed it and I didn't think to ask.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, @TheFlinstones (great name, BTW) I've watched her first video and look forward to watching the others.

@Romanoloser and @CajunSam last weekend before you both begin a brand new chapter of your lives. Wishing you and everyone having surgery this week an easy and safe surgery.

Good luck and best wishes to everyone who gets to start their new life tomorrow:) I can't wait for April 9th to get here:)

me too! good luck to us!!! can hardly wait to get this done and over with.. wow my ticker says it all!!!

April 11 is getting so close. The nerves are kicking in. I lost about 14 pounds and I didn’t even start a diet. I think I’m just so anxious that I get nauseous and don’t eat. My final preop appt is Wednesday and I meet with the nutritionist and surgeon. That day is gonna make it even more real.

Also -- at the risk of babbling and takin' up the board, lol -- why am I not hungry? This is clear liquid day 6 of 6 and the end of two weeks of purees and proteins to do a liver shrink. I was ravenous yesterday evening but yet today so far I feel indifferent to food. If this is what post-op life is like I so want this... I want to stay this light and free

I'm in Southern California so I bet you and everybody else are far ahead of me in nesting and cleaning, but I'm all done now and have even packed my overnight case of post-op hospital stay goodies. (It's a tiny case lol so nobody yell at me, I looked at everyone else's here and took notes, lol) Now just sipping no salt low sodium chicken broth and Vitamin Water and waiting down the clock to tomorrow. Gonna take a magnesium citrate in two hours (yuck) then shower with the pre-surgery cleanser they gave me. I shower with it again tomorrow... then off to the hospital! (Edited for brevity etc)

It's weird: I couldn't toss out my favorite two pairs of "fat jeans" today. I've read the term "food funerals" here. I kind of think there need to also be blue jean funerals...

Surgery in the morning at 10:00! It feels like Christmas Eve to me! I can't wait to open up this new life :)!!

Hi I'm Becky and a newbie to this group. I'm having the sleeve on April 4th. Have a lap band may yrs ago lost 60 lbs and it has a leek and I'm having it removed. Want to wish everyone Good Luck on your surg day!!

I'm April 3rd. Feeling the jitters for sure!

Congrats!gaving gastric sleeve tomorrow as well In nj730am

Same place as I am going. You and I may cross path! Good tidings for tomorrow!

Before or after my sleeve, I should have been in counseling. I had too many things going on including grief and loss.
I was sick both mentally and physically. I would tell most individuals going through this process; Please seek profesional mental health support. Select someone who has experience with Bartrics.



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First of all, I wish all the luck in the world today. I’m going in on Wednesday. It’s a very nerve racking thing to go through.
My surgeon recommended this course to me that helped me have a better relationship with food. It’s called intuitive eating. If there is a class teaching this near you, I recommend taking it. It really is a lifesaver.
You mentioned that you celebrate and reward yourself with food. Maybe finding other ways to reward yourself, new clothes, shoes or something that you have wanted for a long time.
I come from a family where no matter the occasion, sad or happy, food is always the center of that. That’s been the tough part for me through all of this. My mother is a self classified “ feeder”.
i have faith in you! If this is what you want then you will succeed!!

Hi All,
VGS is a tool.....not a cure. Most long-term morbid obesity sufferers who have failed to lose and/or maintain weight-loss have emotional eating disorders. Most people who have VGS that do not address the emotional issues are much more likely to fail at weight loss and improving their health. Reading the research and spending a lot of time reading the accounts of others makes this very apparent. Finding a good therapist with a background in eating disorders is the best path to take to assure your long-term success. I'm working with one now.
I've come across some materials that can be very helpful. In fact, these are materials that can be used as a self-help but are often used in therapy. They are very brief workbook-like modules that must be worked through in order. It is best to take a module a week and fully absorb it....without jumping/peeking ahead to other modules.
Here is the material for eating disorders: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Disordered-Eating
Here is similar material for other issues such as anxiety, depression, and self-compassion: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/

Oh no, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly, especially right before surgery!
It isn't hopeless, though. You're still trying!
Have you tried therapy and/or eating disorder treatment? That's the only way I know to change the relationship with food. I think I've finally done it but only after some years of treatment, pain, and a lot of hard work. In fact, I couldn't get approved for the surgery until I had proven my eating disorder was in remission for 6 months...
Treatment is out there. It's definitely not easy but it offers healing.
In the meantime, good luck today! I wish you the best. ?

Oh no, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly, especially right before surgery!
It isn't hopeless, though. You're still trying!
Have you tried therapy and/or eating disorder treatment? That's the only way I know to change the relationship with food. I think I've finally done it but only after some years of treatment, pain, and a lot of hard work. In fact, I couldn't get approved for the surgery until I had proven my eating disorder was in remission for 6 months...
Treatment is out there. It's definitely not easy but it offers healing.
In the meantime, good luck today! I wish you the best. ?

Oh no, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly, especially right before surgery!
It isn't hopeless, though. You're still trying!
Have you tried therapy and/or eating disorder treatment? That's the only way I know to change the relationship with food. I think I've finally done it but only after some years of treatment, pain, and a lot of hard work. In fact, I couldn't get approved for the surgery until I had proven my eating disorder was in remission for 6 months...
Treatment is out there. It's definitely not easy but it offers healing.
In the meantime, good luck today! I wish you the best. ?

Oh no, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly, especially right before surgery!
It isn't hopeless, though. You're still trying!
Have you tried therapy and/or eating disorder treatment? That's the only way I know to change the relationship with food. I think I've finally done it but only after some years of treatment, pain, and a lot of hard work. In fact, I couldn't get approved for the surgery until I had proven my eating disorder was in remission for 6 months...
Treatment is out there. It's definitely not easy but it offers healing.
In the meantime, good luck today! I wish you the best. ?

Welcome to April club:) you have several people with you on the 9th!! Good luck

Hugs to you both! Don't forget your phone or tablet chargers... here we gooooooooooooo

I’m April 1st at 7:30am! I have to be there at 5:30am. I am nervously excited ?