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I haven't had surgery yet, but I gave up soda five months ago in preparation. I used to drink five or so cans of diet soda a day. About a month after I gave it up, I was at a friend's house. She was renovating her kitchen so I couldn't get water, but she gave me a coke zero, which I used to love. It really didn't taste good to me anymore! Last month I was out to lunch with a friend and tried his diet coke and I didn't like that either. So glad I have kicked that habit! I still want them when I see them, but I know I won't enjoy it if I taste it.

I hope you are able now to see that the surgeon was trying to protect your safety by aborting the surgery. You need a functioning liver. Hopefully this will motivate you to lose any additional weight required and try again. You wouldn't be able to sue the surgeon as no harm was done and he does not seem to have acted wrongly (I have studied medical law cases and neither of the things required for you to sue are present here). You just had a bad outcome and you are fortunate that there was no injury and you can try again. If the surgeon HAD completed the surgery, you might have ended up in really bad shape requiring a liver transplant. I hope you are feeling less hopeless and have become determined to get back on track. I know it would be very upsetting to me, too, to have my surgery aborted. I am having enough trouble getting it scheduled!

Congrats! I'm hoping my date will be in August as well, but I'm still waiting for a call from the surgery team to schedule.

There are tons of exercise videos on youtube that you can do for free, like dance exercise, isometric exercise that you don't need any equipment for, etc. You can also just turn on Pandora or any music service and play peppy music and dance.

We can have decaf for the first month.

That's amazing! Congrats. You've lost so much and gained even more! It's terrible that insurance wouldn't cover the procedure since now that you're healthier you will cost them less in the long run, but you have made an investment in yourself, so money well spent!

Actually no, my insurance hasn't even gotten involved. The surgery center is backed up due to COVID cancellations (all elective surgeries were on hold until April so everyone whose surgery was cancelled has to go first) and also they are short staffed. When they do call me to answer my questions, they're very nice and apologetic, but they often leave my questions unanswered for a few weeks.

Thanks. I have lost a bit of weight while I am waiting, but losing weight hasn't ever been the problem, it's keeping it off. I started off really excited and gung ho, but now I just feel deflated and frustrated.

Thanks for sharing your surgery. I've been in the process of jumping through hoops and now just waiting for a date and it's great to hear about what the time during and right after surgery is like.

Congrats! It's an exciting journey, but I am finding it going slower than I would like. I met the surgeon in Feb and I don't even have a surgery date. I hope your journey is faster, but if not, just have patience!

I like my fitness pal. I've used it for about 9 years (I haven't had surgery yet). I don't like all the ads, but it doesn't bother me enough to use the paid version. Some people on here have complained that it says you're not eating enough after bariatric surgery, but all you have to do is not mark your day "complete" and it doesn't care. They have a huge database of foods and the recipe builder is pretty easy to use.

You're doing great! Just stay the course, stalls are very common.

I would try a different brand from your doctor's list. Try to keep taking them (maybe with a bit of food) until the new ones arrive. Maybe try one you only have to take one or two of. That's the ones I bought (but I haven't had surgery yet so I haven't taken them yet). I'm sorry they're not working for you.

I would talk to your doc, because it's important to find out what's causing the cough.

I'm sorry this is happening. Can you discuss what his concerns are? Is he afraid you won't be able to enjoy going out to eat with him anymore? Or that you will leave him once you are thin? Or that you will have a lot of health problems afterwards? Or something else? It might be something to discuss with a therapist who is well-educated about bariatric surgery. If he is unhappy with your weight and unhappy with your efforts to do something about it, it really puts you in a difficult spot.

I can't get on a waiting list because it will take a month for the insurance to approve me. And there's still the two week shrink the liver diet, too. Plus I have to be off birth control for 6 weeks I think.

I donate platelets at the Red Cross donation centers. My surgery isn't scheduled yet but I'm hoping I will have it by the end of August. Maybe I will just not donate again to be safe. Thank you!

I was thinking about going to HI a few months after I get my sleeve. Is that a reasonable plan? I would be going alone. I would fly first class (I have tons of miles).

You look great! It's nice that you didn't have a lot of pain for very long after surgery. I don't plan to get plastics unless I am uncomfortable physically from loose skin, mostly because I'm so scared of the pain after surgery. Also, the wounds look so icky to me! I get grossed out by stuff like that really easily. Lucky you have a wound care nurse to tend to you. How long were you in maintenance before your PS?

Congratulations and best of luck!

(I haven't had surgery yet) I have been donating platelets when my hemoglobin levels are high enough, and I'm taking iron supplements to allow me to do this more frequently, like every month or so. Can you donate platelets after surgery? If so, how long do you have to wait and do you have to take extra iron (yes, I know it will make me more constipated). I can reach out to the surgeon too, but it doesn't feel very urgent.

I called the surgery center at the beginning of January and met with the surgeon in early February. I finished the four monthly stupid insurance required nutrition classes ("did you know french fries are unhealthy???") a few weeks ago and I still don't have a date for my surgery. All elective surgeries were on hold until April due to COVID so everyone whose surgery was cancelled or delayed has to be scheduled first. I had lost 39 lbs but then I got scared that my BMI would go too low if my surgery was going to be not for a few more months so when I visited my family I threw a few food funerals and gained 3 lbs and now I'm so angry at myself. I'm back on track now, but the weight isn't coming off. The surgery center isn't answering my questions at all at this point and I'm so frustrated. I know they're understaffed, and when the admin has called me back she's been so apologetic and so nice and helpful. I don't want to start over again, and everyone has been so nice and helpful at every interaction, it's just that I feel like I have so many unanswered questions and I want to just do this already!

You can use MyFitnessPal. They have a huge database of restaurant (only chain restaurants) and store bought foods and you can enter in recipes (I like the old recipe calculator where you just enter how much of each ingredient you put in and how many total servings your recipe is but they also have a new calculator where you can enter the url of a recipe online). You can also use calorie king dot come, but I think that's only for restaurant and store bought foods, I don't know if they have a recipe calculator.

If you are freezing/hot at the same time, you might want to see if you have a fever, which could be a sign of an infection. If so, you should call your surgeon. Also, if you're not getting enough protein and fluids, you could be dehydrated. Did the surgery center give you a list of things to watch out for in terms of dehydration? Good luck, feel better!

Have you tried fish? That's something that a lot of people have said works well for them. Even if you didn't like fish before surgery, you might like it now. Also try chicken thighs cooked in a stew or sauce so they're not dry, or something like chili or meatballs made with ground turkey.