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Hey again Cherri! I can't believe it, 3 weeks from tomorrow! I am going to loose my mind I think lol. I am nervous bc I have not lost the 10lbs they wanted me to pre-op......I was trying liquids and couldn't make it all day, I have ended up eating dinner.....I am going to have to go to the gym and work it off cuz it's just not happening! What isyour low card diet consist of do you know??
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Band crimey!!!!! So my mom laughed so hard this morning when i sent her an email with the pics bc they are all in the bathroom at work!!! Our photo studio!! Thanks for all the comments im tryng to cath up to you!!! YAY!!!!
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HI TRISH,
I will be banded on the 14th as well, just started on the optifast yestruday. i see you are on your 4th day.
i feel my body will be going thru some detox of carbs as my hubbie says. but this is for the best , i need to get healty.
i am also kinda nervous but i dont let my self think about it. in fact i try and not think about it at all. just go with it. i am keeping my self busy very busy. i have a list, cleaning out closets , bedrooms, toy boxes , going thru my kids clothes and getting rid of stuff they dont use anymore. i have decided to keep my brain thinking of other stuff rather than the stuff i can not eat.
hopefully it will work. Yesturday during the time i usually cook dinner , i fed the kids some quick meal and put in a movie and sat and watched it. it truley took my brain away from food.
funny as it may sound. i guess every little bit helps.
WE can do it!
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Girllll.... i love the gym!!! You will too!! My trainers are the shit they kick my ass!! And my movitation is the couple mallory and curtis from biggest loser bc she is a trainer at my gym!! She looks AMAZINGGGG!!!! plus i just shit talk all the super skinny girl who wear 7 lbs of makeup and do their hair to come and done even sweat... wtf!! They think the gym is a singles dating spot!! HAhA
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LoL.... i totally thought everyone was gonna tease me for wearing but they all liked it.... I liked your bc it was pink!! Sooo i got my first fill yesterday and i fainted and smashed my flower...LoL!!! Leave it to me to do something like that!! Hope your having a great day!!!
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Hello congratulations on your weight loss. How much have you lost so far? Im new to this and have many questions. I have been reaching out to others to find out if there is hair lost after the surgery for black women of color?> I dont want to lose my hair. I go for my first appt w/ the dr. on 5/7/09 I have BC-BS insurance and I dont think that will be a problem and I had to have of 5 years weight loss history. I havent done the Physic nor the nutritionist part yet. Is that scary? Hit me back- I sent a friend request:-)
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Hello and congratulations on all your weight loss. I am at straight 200 l;bs and my first appt is on 5-7-09. As a black woman 2 woman did you have any hair loss? I was warned that some black women lose hair due to the relaxer we use? Have you heard this?
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Lol... girl i love the bathroom photo shoots!! There my fave and i dont have bug everyone to take pics of me... Thank you soo much and you look AMAZING!!! The curves suck sometimes especially bc my waist is half the size of my hips!!! LOL
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Hey I cant wait till then. I am on 5 Slim Fast High Protein a day and then a 200 calorie meal at night for 2 weeks b4. Let me tell you they are not good all or I dont like them. I got one to try today and its nasty but its only for two weeks I can do it..I am so excited so I think I will b able to handle it..Where are you having yours done..did your dr tell you how much you could lose in a year bc mine was not very informative about that he just said about half ur extra weight but everyone i have seen has lost more so i was just wondering what yours said
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My fill Dr is two hours away and I really need to get an unfill. I know that bc I am dehydrated and having acid reflux. I need to find time to get down their but it is so hard with my job, kids (single mom) and the Holidays. Anyone else out there ever suffer from band related dehydration and/or acid reflux? No fun!
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Three weeks today that I sent my paperwork into bc bs of minnesota and still haven't heard. This is pretty frusterating! Anyone else have this long of a wait?
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My doctor refused a fill! I am losing weight but only bc of my newfound eating exercise habits!I need a fill! Should I cry now or later?
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At this point I am beyond fed up with this whole process!! See my topic "ready to scream" for details.
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Off to my 3rd post opp appt! Don't think I'll be getting a fill bc I seem to be in my green light place...except no wt loss in over a wk hmm
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Hi: I would really enjoy being your friend. I live in BC Canada am 64 and retired. Been on my journey since Feb.01,2007. Doreen
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Tired of all this BS, just want it all to end!!!
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Thank Goodness! Today I heard back from my old Bariatric Center where I had my surgery. I asked them to provide a letter that I could take to my new doctors and insurance company in my new state indicating that having to have the annual blood work is an absolute necessity to ensure proper nutrition post RNY. My lovely new insurance company refuses to pay the $2363.00 bill for said blood work because they used the work Bariatric in the coding. The clinic of course refuses to change the coding so I wrote the check yesterday because they threatened to send it to collections. What BS. Now I am filing with both the insurance company for an appeal and I am filing with the state, thanks to @OKCPirate. Don't know if it will do any good and I will get my money back but it is what it is.
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This is why I switched to a defined benefit policy. I pay everything up to $4000. So I can pick and choose what I want, who I want to do it no freaking networks or idiots. If I go over they pay up to a million. $146 a month. Worth it. I check the box on my taxes saying I have insurance. All is good. Even the year I got my WLS, I have never gone over it. It is worth it just to see the look in the eyes of the people at the front desk when you ask "well how much is that?" You can get so many discounts if you pay cash and don't file insurance its not even funny.
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Trust me, I have worked with my doctors office which is an in network clinic. They refuse to recode it and the insurance company thinks they are off the hook because the word Bariatric is in the coding. I am going to appeal it and attach the letter from my Bariatric surgeon now that I have it. But even they don't know that the insurance company will do anything about it. It is total BS. But I won't give this fight up because it is simply wrong. Can you imagine how much it would cost the insurance company if I were to not have my testing done every year and get sick? Which my surgeon wrote in the letter that I am at risk of neurological illnesses due to the malabsorption factor if I don't keep up on my nutrition. I argued with the clinic the other day for over an hour. They believe it is the insurance company. My point was, had someone told me that it was going to cost that much money I seriously would have skipped the test until I got insurance to approve it ahead of time. I would have gone the same route.
Then, I got a call from someone else in the clinic to say that my account was at risk of going to collections. I almost had a heart attack on them. My credit rating has been over 800 for 20 years.....I will go ballistic on them if they screwed with it and so we just paid the bill hoping to get it back later. I really did not have that kind of money that isn't already spoken for. UGH!
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So today while I was watching this female Asian longhorned beetle oviposite her egg I was thinking about the science behind WLS. How many experiments aka..clinical trials have been done, are still being done, and will be done in the future to help doctors figure out the complex mysteries of this disease we call obesity. It blows my mind to even try to think of all the variables involved in the design of these trials.
My research focuses on this beetle, a much simpler organism, and yet it can take days of thought and reading current published research to determine the variables that need to be considered and controlled during a planned experiment. Sometimes we even design pre-experiments just to figure out whether something is going to effect something else before we run the main experiment. All of this thinking has made me realize how little we really know. Why has my diabetes gone into remission after surgery? This surgery has done what following a low carb diet alone could not do, normalize my blood sugars minus any medications. I haven't had time to read all of the published literature on this subject, but I would like to.
My mind is trained to looked for patterns in data so of course this is the way I am approaching my journey after this surgery. I am logging everything I eat, drink, and my exercise. I will export the data to excel and graph it to see if I can figure out how my body works now in relation to theses things and weight loss. I know for some people, maybe most, this is not something they would want to do. It may seem excessive and time consuming, but I hope to learn something that will be useful to me during the maintenance phase.
I am increasingly more convinced that low carb is going to be the best diet for me to follow long term. I just don't see any reason to test the waters when I am doing so well right now. I have zero cravings for sugar, bread, rice, pasta... my energy levels are good, my bs are excellent, and I am losing weight. These are my musings for today, 5 weeks post-op.
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Love this post
Took me some time to realize the same things. Like any endeavour to change it requires mindfulness and dedication which I can clearly see that you possess, and documentation is your best form of accountability. My recommendation for anyone who has transitioned back to a full-solids diet and is looking to drop weight in a healthier fashion would be to follow the practices of a ketogenic (keto) diet. Really helped me during my stall periods and I always felt great! Google or Pinterest are great places to start your research -
I hope so @Newme17 because I don't know where I would be now without your support and friendship 😊
I will definitely post my graphs and share my information. I will probably wait until I have at least 3 months of data.
These beginning phases of our post-op diets are really similar to the Keto diet. I figure I have gone this long without eating those types of carbs and I feel great, so why not continue? I am eating all of my veggies for sure.
Most people don't like bugs...lol I am known as the bug lady to my friends. For the record I hate bad bugs like roaches, mosquitoes, ect
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Thank you @Freedom2Thrive. I will definitely check out Pinterest.
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This liquid diet is bs got be walking around with a headsche
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I didn't cheat. What was the point? As mortified as I was that I had to resort to surgery to help me lose weight, imagine how even more mortified it would have been to have found out that I didn't have surgery because my liver wasn't shrunk enough. Some tough love here coach....if you are thinking about how to cheat and you haven't even had surgery yet, you might find it difficult to have the success you must want so badly. Really dude...follow the rules. If you don't, you may be going under the knife for nothing.
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At the moment I am at the lowest I have been. Fed up of being told that I'm getting a revision and then they dont deliver. Cost comes into it on the NHS. Thats why I'm looking further afield. If you know of anywhere decent let mknow? The condition has made me push my friends away
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First visit with the PCP today, a month out from surgery. Off BS meds immediately after surgery and she is reducing my HBP meds. Did bloodwork to check cholesterol...will see when results come in. Feeling great!
