pupichupi

I know what you mean about your friends not understanding cause all of my friends are thin and always have been and they just think its oh so easy cause the most they ever had to lose was maybe 10lbs??? I'm like be in my shoes!!! Ha they wouldn't know what to do!!! So listen don't stress too much and don't forget when you quit smoking that just makes you wanna eat. It's really difficult so try to get something that you can do to keep your hands busy!! It will help that and spicy or cinnamony candies!!! Well keep it up you can do it!!!

I just have to ask ... then what did you eat pre-op? Prepared foods? You say you never will want to cook. What was your plan for your sleeved life? The chicken veggie soup takes only a few minutes and tastes awesome. I just find it hard to believe someone can't go buy a rotisserie chicken, frozen vegetables and broth. The pulled pork is even less time. Buy it at the store, put it in crock pot, drain liquid, add sauce. Pretty much all the recipes I have listed are just that simple. Fry ground turkey, add tomatoes, Beans and spice. Done. Don't think of it as cooking, if that is what has you stuck, think of it as assembling. All the stuff is there at the store, you are merely combining them. There is no magic here and very little effort. For me, taking an active role in my nutrition has been so rewarding. I know it is one of the reasons I have been successful with my sleeved life. I wish you well on your journey. Pdxman, I completely agree, you should have some kind of active role in you nutrition otherwise how do you know what's going into your meal?? I am following your role and cooking every Saturday or Sunday to make my weekly + meals so I know I will be in a good position to lose my weight and keep it off!!!

My doctor told me I had to quit before my surgery? So I had no choice??? I am doing good though, and I don't want to go back again!!!

Don't worry about it, did you or are you doing a liquid diet right now? Have you followed it? I am doing mine now, for 2 weeks, so I am in a week already and the 19th is my surgery date so I am almost there. I had the band back in 2010 and it didn't work out for me, and I was offered to do the sleeve after they pulled it out, but I wanted nothing to do with it at that point with everything I went through, so I think that is why I am not worried so much, but I will say that was the one thing that made me nervous was the cutting the stomach and reattaching the intestine stuff, but my surgeon is a great guy and he has done so many of them that he can probably do it in his sleep at this point so I am having faith in my doc.!!! You will be fine!!! Just stay positive!!! Good Luck!!!

This is a great idea, thanks for that, now after my surgery, and if I start screwing up, I know what I can do to get back on track!!!

Your going to be scared, it's normal, it's good you joined this site you will get lots of help, all you need to do is ask!!! Don't worry you will do great, and just remember to follow your steps you have been taught this far. I am having my surgery Wednesday. Good luck!!!

PdxMan, Thank you for posting these items, I said the same thing, but man these all sound so good, I think I am going to follow your lead and do the exact same thing with the mason jars, I was going to buy some of those cheap little plastic ones you can get in the dollar store or whatever, and just do it with those, but i bet it's better with the mason jars. So awesome. Again Thanks!!!

Manaia84, your stressing yourself out, first off what did your doctor give you for a 2 week diet? I was told to drink 2 shakes and they gave me a power bar for the other meals, Also I have some Fiber crap they want me to eat, then all the Vitamins. Then water, and non-soda, low sugar drinks. I drink the Ice drinks which my NUT said was a good thing for me, and it has lots of vitamins in it. I also quit smoking, and that doesn't help. This past sunday I went to a family thing at my husbands families house and they are straight up Puerto Rican, and man I love the food they cook, so i said I would have a small plate, and thats what I did, but it was pork which is amazing, and rice, and I had some meatballs, which they always make, and man the next day I was like ugh I was paying for it!!! I haven't had soda in like forever, so I can't say I drink soda anymore, but don't worry you have 6 more days to get back on track. My surgery is the same day and I told myself, after sunday I am not screwing up!!! I am not giving in I don't care if I have to hide in my house!!! lol, so just put in your effort for the last week before carry your drinks on you everywhere, I brought enough to work for the days I am here till my surgery, and then I have what I need at home. The only thing I have to worry about now is Saturday is my sons birthday party and it's a pizza place, so I just have to be strong. You can do this!!! Good luck!!!

Do you like Soup? What kind of Veggies will you eat? You really gotta try to change your taste for food, cause your right you won't be able to sustain on crackers alone. How long has it been since you have had surgery? I am sorry to say but no one said this was going to be easy, but if you take one day a week and cook a few meals you know your going to eat and that you like, and then make enough that you can alternate days, and freeze them so when you get home all you have to do is take it out put it in the microwave and warm it up for yourself that is the way I am going to do it, and it will make it easier for you. I get out of work now and I am on my pre-op diet and I go home and cook for 2 kids and my husband, and I am not making 2 meals every night after I have my surgery. So I figure if I take saturday or sunday and make different things and freeze them, and all I have to do is choose what I want to eat for that day, I will be good to go??? Try it??? Maybe you will like that better? Good Luck!!!

You aren't chewing enough, when you eat something sing your ABC's one letter for each chew!!! That's approx. how long you should be chewing. It also depends on the person too, some people take longer to move on, are you drinking any Protein shakes? As long as your getting in your protein you should be good, but just make sure that you talk to your doctor the next time you go. Good Luck!!!

Hey TheOldMeAgain, don't stress out!!! You will just put more stress on you for tomorrow, you know what you have done, and just explain to the doc what happen? I can't believe he has you doing 2 shakes at a meal time, I am only doing one shake at each meal and liquids in between? I started last wednesday and I have to go till next wednesday, as my surgery is on wednesday the 19th. This is the purpose of having the surgery, cause your body may just not lose the weight without this extra help. I feel ya really I do.

My suggestion??? Call your insurance company, and ask them when did the paper work get submitted? it shouldn't take too long to get it back? I kept bugging my insurance company about mine. I got the answer before my surgeons office.

Good luck Spraine, I am only 7 days away from you, so I know I will be feeling the same way as you in just a week from now, and actually at this time next week, I will be in surgery. I have to be at the hospital at 6 am for a 9 am surgery time Wednesday the 19th. I am really excited and I can't wait to be on the loser side of the surgery, but I too have been doing the liquid diet, and it's good, but the one my doctor put me on is not so good. I am doing everything I am supposed to do but the Fiber he gave me is awful!!! Then he gave me Vitamins that I can't take after the surgery cause they are horse pills? I am a little upset about it actually but I can't do anything about it now? So it is what it is, and good luck!!!

Hi Futureformerfattie, what are you having for a surgery? I am having a bypass and my surgery is on a Wednesday and I am only taking Wed. - Fri off and going back Monday? I had the Band back in 2010, and I had it on a Thursday and stayed out the whole next week, but I didn't need to, I could have gone back to work on that following Monday? If I still am not feeling well after the weekend, I might take one or two more days but I doubt it. Well Good luck and I hope you get your surgery in time!!! I would talk to your doctor and tell him your situation and let him know you don't want to roll over.

Good luck!!!

Getting really excited 8 more days till my surgery!!! Woohoo only 6 more days and what's left of today of this pre-op diet!!! I can't wait to be laying on that hospital bed!!!!!

Michelev97 congrats on getting off your med but also on your success this far!! Keep it up!!!

I had my band removed back in 2011 and my doctor asked when I had it removed he asked if I wanted the sleeve but I wasn't ready after everything I had gone through with the band, so I didn't but I regret it now cause I should have but now I am going for the bypass!!!!

I had to start seeing an endocrinologist because my PCP wouldn't do anything for mine? I just had all my labs done for surgery so it must be OK otherwise I think they would have said something??? Trust me you don't want it done it hurts!!! I cried both times they did it, and I have a high tolerance for pain!!!! It is very hard to lose weight with a hypo thyroid and very easy to gain it and that's why I am having the surgery too!!!

Chelseabell91 congrats and good luck!!! You will be bloated for a while. You gut nauseous a lot? I would talk to the doc about that but good to know about the soy milk!!! Thanks!!!

Yeah mine did also with my 2 kids! I am not that high but my endocrinologist is a flake and doesn't check my levels very often? I take 125 mcg's Mon - sat. And 250 on Sunday. I also have goiters on mine too which when I do see her all she ever wants to do is biopsy my throat and that hurts like heck!!! Have you had that done? Ugh when she says it I always tell her no.

Lol isn't it great jess??? I love them!!!

Just do what works best for you cause what works for others may not work for you??? Good luck!!!

Jess, have a chocolate shake, you know whats even better, is have a chocolate shake made with Water and ice, to make it like a milk shake and then add Peanut Butter, Yum!!!! So good!!!

Hi Pupichupi! I am ok. Just nervous about the complications that could occur have me freaked out! I have a BMI of almost 37 and moderate sleep apnea... I lost so much weight int he past but it all comes back. I was in a car accident in June that left me with 9 herniated discs in my back so exercise has been non-existent and I've gained 50lbs! That's when I knew that I had to do something fast. I switched Drs and I'm so happy that I did. My current Dr (Dr Angstadt) New York Bariatric Group has been great. He sat with my husband & I for a 1/2 hr and explained everything to us. My previous Dr said about two words to me in three visits. Since almost all of my clearances are done, I will most likely get a date at my next appt on 3/17...then it's the wait to get approved. In the meantime, I have been reading non-stop. I'm a ball of nerves!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for listening!!! Law001, It's good to read, but don't let some of the stuff get to you, your reading it but your also thinking it's going to happen to you, don't do that, your going to get yourself all worked up that your not going to go through with it. I am a great listener, and if you want to talk any time I can be available. I don't live far, we are in the same time zone anyway so if you want email me and we can exchange emails and we can email all my emails go to my cell I will need the help just as much as you do. To talk to someone who is going through what I am going through. We are all here.