K Be Good!
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Checked in at 9. Surgery around 1130. I didn’t become cognizant of time until about 5pm. Pain meds on board. Nausea meds on board. Using my incentive spirometer. Walking also also really nice.
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Me too! Heading to the hospital now.
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Surgery tomorrow. I’ve been strangely calm about this whole thing. Doing chores today and prepping for post op. My mom is coming for a few days to help with the kids. I’m over 20 lbs down from my highest weight. I really wanted to hit 250 before surgery but I weighed in at 252.4 this morning. I’m a little disappointed but I met the goal my surgeon gave me.
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It’s hard. No energy but then I get random spurts and do a ton of chores and then I’m back to feeling like I’m walking through sand. Also, mostly cold all the time. I’m not looking forward to being cold for the next year while my body adjusts to less fat. I keep my calories under 900/day. I’m down about 10 pounds. 20 since I started this journey. Hang in there.
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I’m still on track for 12/3.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I’ve been rocking my preop diet. Averaging 600-900 calories a day. Lowest weight I’ve been in 2.5 years and it’s my cycle right now. I went ahead and had Thanksgiving dinner. I have to say I got full much quicker than I used to. Guess my stomach shrunk. I didn’t even make it to dessert. Guess that’s a good thing. Back to protein shakes tomorrow. Hope you all are hanging in there.
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Surgery scheduled for 12/3. Still on track. No COVID calls. I’m in California.
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Who knew not eating would make you lose weight. I’ve been averaging around 900 calories a day on my liquid diet. I’ve lost almost 7 pounds since Sunday. No joke this is hard. The kids are eating pop tarts as I type.
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Im starting to worry about COVID. I live in California and the numbers are starting to go up again. To be expected after Halloween and with flu season but I would be really sad if they cancelled. Especially after the liquid diet thing. No joke it is hard.
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Protein shake are gross. That being said I found Equate high protein at Walmart. It taste very similar to their weight loss shake which I was already used to. They have 30g of protein and only 5g of carbs.
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Well today was day one. I had a Gatorade zero in the evening and no headache today! Yay!
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Me too! I eased into it last week. Today was my official first day. I’ve only eaten 600 calories and gotten 13,000 steps. My stomach is growling as we speak but over all I’m ok. I had to leave the house at breakfast time and I left the table early at dinner time.
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Got my official preop paperwork today. I have a lot of homework. I’m going to have to take a day off to get this all done. New ECG, CXR, labs, weigh in, preop at hospital. Then another weigh in 2-3 days before surgery. All while on a liquid diet. He only asked me to lose 5-10 pounds. I already feel like I’m going to lose 20 on this diet.....feeling a little dramatic tonight.
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I didn’t think of that. I’ll try that tomorrow.
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How is it possible to be dehydrated on a liquid diet? Now my body is retaining fluid and I’m gaining weight. Is there a waiting period? And OMG this headache!
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I started weaning myself into the liquid diet this week... I got a horrible headache and just had to eat some food. Doesn’t make sense. I’ve quit caffeine over a month ago and I was hydrating well. Trying again tomorrow. I officially start the liquid diet on 11/15....surgery 12/3. Headache or no headache this is happening.
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Orinsky, my surgeon didn’t mention anything about a goal weight when he scheduled me. I’ve lost about 13 pounds from my highest recorded weight with Kaiser. Do your best but don’t stress.
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None of my tests were fasting. Stool samples generally do not need to be fasting.....you need to eat to poop right! 🤨😂 I crack myself up. Sorry. You may have needed to be fasting for your blood tests if they were concerned about diabetes or high cholesterol.
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What a great idea. Unfortunately we already agreed to Thanksgiving at our house. I think I’ll take a few bites of some stuff. My insurance/PCP don’t follow the liquid diet recommendation but my surgeon does. Guess I’ll mix it up. 😬
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My doctor is doing inpatient ish. He said I’ll stay overnight at least.
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No we don’t have those in my town. If all fails I’ll drive myself down and my husband can figure out the car situation later.
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This is more than a single person should have to handle. Please talk to someone more than us. A counselor, a priest, a preacher, a therapist. Someone to help guide you through your grief. A rock will crumble under the weight of a mountain. Don’t do this alone.
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Hospitals here are still closed to visitors. My husband cannot drive me due to work. I’m going to have to rely on my unreliable mother. It’s stressing me out. I know if she doesn’t show/forgets I’ll still get there but I’m a planner and this is not what I planned.
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I know this may not seem like the truth but it does go by fast. Keep making those lifestyle changes and you’ll do good. Upping my water was one of the best things I’ve done so far.
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One week post-op and on liquid diet.
K Be Good! replied to Bobbifaces's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
My surgeon told me a 1/4cup to 1/2cup. Never go over that. You’re losing so that’s good.
