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Oh yeah! I am super excited/nervous about tomorrow. I decided to pursue looking into the Duodenal Switch and I have to meet with the other surgeon who might consider doing it. I'm pretty much off a lap band high right now. Don't get me wrong I still love those little helpers but I realized that with my insurance and the "once in a lifetime" payment I need to make sure that I think twice and cut once. I don't think that Dr C will do it to be honest. His staff didn't even have a billing code for it. I'm really worried that the RNY will help me in the beginning but then I will gain it back. I've heard some good things about the VSG's so is he shoots my DS down then I will try to talk him into the sleeve. I'm so ready for this surgery now. I still have two more months of my pre pre op diet and need to make sure I hit 30 pounds lost.

On another note I still enjoy going to WW meetings. They have helped me stay on track and have good health habits. I won't ever ever tell them I got the surgery though, I'm afraid they might attack me. You know how those diet cults are But seriously I so looking forward to being a leader. That would be my dream job. It would be really hard to compete with J-Ball though... she is one tough cookie!

This weeks focus group challenge was to stay off the scale. It's A LOT harder than it sounds. Especially for me struggling to make it to the 20lb mark. I did weigh but didn't look down at the scale, made my hubby do it because I want to compare my weight post camping trip to my weight on Wednesday.

I'm worried that I have a ton of bloating from my period trying to come back after having a baby. Its only been seven months but I feel out of whack for sure. Not to mention that I gained six and a half pounds last week! I wanted to sit on the WW receptionist until she gave me better news. Oh well... one day at a time, right? I wonder, do diuretics really work?

So last night my neighbor talked me into going for a walk with her at the butt crack of dawn. I got up at 5:45 and rolled out of bed put on my clothes and slumped outside. It had just rained so it smelled like cedar and fresh air and it was really invigorating. Initially my neighbor wanted to go walking with "the group" but apparently they walked too fast for her and asked me, Miss 100lbs over weight to join her and I agreed. OH MY GOSH! Suuuuure she walked slow. I've even been working out the last month or so and I had a hard time keeping up with her. She wanted to go again tomorrow but I told her I had to work on the garden, which is true but I need at least a day to recover. I'm seriously thinking about putting a suite in my hall closet and anytime I go walking with a skinny person they have to wear it.

OH! and then half way through she turned to me and was surprised to see me hot and sweating like a rotisserie chicken rotating in the window of a deli.. it was bad. By the time I got home I had blisters on my feet. Thats what I get for wearing my cute socks with the texture on the inside.

Anyway, by lunch today I was starving there was pizza at my friends house. There was only one peice left and I sat there trying to analyze why I wanted pizza so bad and just decided that sometimes its ok it eat pizza and that over analyzing things can be just as harmful as not paying attention to what you are eating. I enjoyed ONE pizza. I have to admit that I did dip it in ranch... ok, fine I just about bathed one bite of pizza in a cup of ranch to get the taste but that was all I would allow myself to have. I'm pretty proud of myself, I mean usually I would eat anywhere from two to four pizza all dipped in ranch.

I'm not exactly sure how that is going to fit in with the band or if I would PB it. It's so hard to prepare for what the band will do to change your life since it's different for everyone but you can't blame me for trying hard to be prepared. :thumbup:

Lisa343, is your real name Lisa?

Thanks for posting! I so know what you are going through right now. Do you have to lose a certain amount? I have to lost 10% of my body weight and I am only half way there. Originally I thought that I had to use the doctors information from the bariatrich clinic which I went to on March 25th which puts me at being able to sumbit August 25th as long as I have lost 28 pounds but then I found out they would accept the weight from my doctors office which was Feb 3rd so IF I was able to lose 15 more pounds in two weeks I could submit then but I don't think that is going to happen LOL seven pounds a week? YIKES!

What plan are you on now?

Sitting here on a nice quiet Saturday afternoon is nice. I'm listening to country music which I don't particularly like but my three year old son stole my husbands iPhone and is listening to his music library. He is all content so I can't tell him to turn it off because it's making mommies ears bleed

So I just realized that I have two weeks left until my six month diet is complete and I have only lost half the required weight. BOO! I'm trying not to be hard on myself but on the other hand I really think I need to step it up! There is a ginormous bag of Cheeto's to my left and they want to whisper sweet nothings into my mouth. Stay back you orange little devils! Why does food make me feel as excited as.. ahem, other things? Ok, it's not the same feeling I'm just being a freak but I do have a party in my head whenever I see chocolate brownies at a BBQ, or if I find out that funeral potatoes will be served at the church social that night. I wonder if anyone else has their heart skip a beat when the pizza arrives? LOL

On the brighter side, I planted an entire garden by MYSELF today with four kids. Pretty amazing if you ask me. The kids only screamed for an hour after I locked them in the closet... JK! It was pretty fun teaching them how to dig and water and not decapitate each other with the shovel and rake, good times. So in a six weeks or so we will have the following: cucumbers, zucchini green and yellow, bell peppers green, orange, and red, spinach, romaine lettuce, squash, cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, pumpkin, radishes, strawberries and tomatoes!

All in all today was a good day. Go me!

SO I am now down 15 pounds and am now half way, YAY! I messed around with trying to change my diets up. First low carb which is a Biotch to be on then tried this stupid lemonade diet cleanse that nearly made me go in my shorts! Cleanse, please. Right now I'm doing Weight Watchers. I go to the meetings and I el oh vee ee my leader, she is amazing. Sometimes in class they talk about the dangers of lapband and it makes me feel a little weak or stupid for that matter but then I realize that its my decision and if I think it will help then that is all that matters, right? I'm still not convinced that this surgery is right for me because I am worried about regaining the weight or just sucking down chocolate all day but I seem to be doing pretty darn good on WW so we will see. I have so much to lose. Thinking of losing only 1 to 2 pounds a week sounds so daunting. Ive seen people lose that much weight in six months but I guess they don't get to eat the same things I do. I'm acutally amazed at how many good quality foods I can eat now that I have cut out desserts. I think we can compromise a lot. OH, on another note I did find out that the doctors office will take my first weigh in and IF I had the thirty pounds off I could have submitted my information to the insurance on July 3rd. What do you think the chances are that I could lose five pounds a week for three weeks in a row? I'd say pretty low At least if you do it the right way.

OH man I so know how you feel! Im doing the six month diet too and Ive messed around with all of these different cleanses and diets its stupid and I"m only down 15 pounds and I'm suppose to be down 30. SIGH. Do you have to lose weight before surgery like me? We have to lose 10% of body weight.

I am officially obsessed! I've been reading stories on here and I want so badly to get my surgery approved!! I still have a long way to go. I need to lose 30 pounds and I'm down 9, which is good but I would like to see more, don't we all! I can't submit my papers until September 25th because that will be six months to the day I started my pre op weight loss diet required by my insurance. I've been reading stories on here about people who are scheduled in June and July and I can't help but to be so incredibly envious! I know this will be a process. I need to be ok with losing weight wether or not I get banded. I need to stop obsessing about the band itself and focus more on losing weight. THe more I lose now the more sucessful I will be!

I was originally scheduled for surgery feb 5th but backed out a week before. I just didn't have that great of feeling about the doctor and I was also self pay. I found out that if I try to jump through some hoops my insurance might pay for it so I have to exhaust that before I put it on plastic. I know I'm doing this the right way but it's so hard to be patient! I've been looking into this since january and it won't be until October if everything is approved. It just seems so far away! sigh

OH well... one step at a time. It's good for me to learn what it takes to do it right the first time. I so look forward to seeing the onderland again!

Hey Mrs Donna, I too am a newbie and waiting to get approved but my insurance requires me to do a 6 month diet to lose 10% of my body weight so for now I'm just waiting it out doing weight watchers. I hope you get approved!!

Jen

Ohhh that is SO frustrating!! I'm still about six months away from my surgery and every time I get insurance news that might postpone the process I just want to cry... for instance, I was suppose to meet with my surgeon, the psychologist, nutritionist, and exercise-ist (sp?). Anyway the door I was trying to come in was locked and I was trying to get in.. Finally a janitor saw me outside and let me in, he made a snarky comment that the door was open on the other side of the building but i never saw it so I waited. My appointment was suppose to be for 7:00am and I got up there at 7:15 BUT there was a line of checking people in. When I finally got to check in it was 7:25 and the lady tsked tsked at me and told me she will ahve to reschedule the psychologist because I was so late. I explained to her what happened and told her it was really REALLY hard for me to find a baby sitter that earlier in the morning and she just said 'sorry.' Well I sat down to wait for some of the appointment and the tears just welled up. I felt SO STUPID to be crying but it is a very hard process and I have such a long way to go. Yes, people were looking at me. I'm glad you had enough self control to not cry at work! Good for you! Keep hanging in there, you are almost there

Jen