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My surgery is scheduled for March 7th in Houston' date=' Texas. I'm a little nervous, but ready to start this weight loss journey!

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I am in Houston too. Where are you having surgery? Have to do my psych consult this week and we submit, hoping for a spring break date.

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@Garlandfam, I am so nervous too! My date is March 6th I am from New Jersey.. I wish everyone the best of luck with their surgery! :)

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@Garlandfam' date=' I am so nervous too! My date is March 6th I am from New Jersey.. I wish everyone the best of luck with their surgery! :)[/quote']

Thanks. Good luck to you too. Can't wait.

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All approved!!!! Surgery date of March 13th!

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I meet with my surgeon march 1st so I definitely think I will be a march sleever ... soo excited :)

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Hi I'm just about to do my food and nutrition education next week, then I have an appointment with the surgeon on March 12th, I'm not sure how many more steps there are left before I have the operation.

How long was it for you?

Wishing you all the best. X

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I'm hoping for a March surgery date also. Got my cardio appt next Tuesday and that'll be the last hurdle before setting a date. Unbelievably nervous!!!!!!!!!

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I hope i can get an march date.. I had 2 change doctors TWICE.. I wanna give Up..

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I'm nervous as well I scheduled for Feb 28. In Tijuana but I'm ready good luck too you;)

Kimkamara where in Mexico will you be going? I'm scheduled that day also in Juarez.

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I'm hoping for a March date! I just have an abdominal ultrasound on 2/15, appt. with Bariatrician on 2/20 and nutritionist on 2/22 then they submit for final approval from insurance and then I'll schedule my pre-op appt. and surgery date! Hopefully March 20th will be my day!! I think I'll feel a little more relaxed when I have an actual date to focus on! Good luck to all you fellow March sleevers! :rolleyes:

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Hi I'm just about to do my food and nutrition education next week, then I have an appointment with the surgeon on March 12th, I'm not sure how many more steps there are left before I have the operation.

How long was it for you?

Wishing you all the best. X

It depends on what the practice requires and what your insurance requires. My surgeon required I meet with the Bariatrician and nutritionist before scheduling a date and he also made me do an EGD, abdominal ultrasound and more blood work prior to surgery. Some people are required to do a sleep study, EKG, chest x-rays, and blood gases prior to surgery. It depends on the surgeon and your BMI when it comes to what they require. It has been almost 3 months to the day that I started this process with my PCP by the time I receive official approval from insurance (and my insurance didn't even require any amount of Dr. supervised weight loss). It's a LONG process, but will be worth it in the end! Good luck to you and hopefully you can get that March date!

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Hello everyone! My date is March 4th!! A little over a week and I am so excited! It was almost a full year ago that I started this process....it is time!

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March 4 ;o)

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Its hard to believe March is almost here

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Officially a "march sleever" scheduled for the 26th. Preop diet starts march 5th dreading this skim milk diet. BUT! It will be worth it!! Super excited! Cant wait to be recovering and losing this dare weight!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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