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Anyone starting 6 month diet in october?

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Photo925    100

Photo925
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This is slightly off topic for this thread, but I wanted to mention something because you said you are a teacher. I would use that to your advantage. My sister is a teacher and had the surgery over a year ago and because she is a teacher, she put pressure on the schedulers to make it work with her schedule (she was able to move up her surgery to make it fit within the summer break) it seems if you are willing to be flexible with scheduling, then they can work with you rather easily

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Rach34    11

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I meet with my bariatrician on Wednesday to start my six month diet.

Anyone else beginning in October hoping to be sleeved in March/April 2014?

I Jus started my 6 month diet yesterday!

My cal intake is only 1200...

Yesterday was a lil rough but I made it... today's been kinda the same. I'm trying to figure out how to space my meals so I won't feel hungry. Lol. Lookin into low cal foods to prepare....

My dietitian suggested:

*Breakfast

*Snack

*Lunch

*Snack

*Dinner

I'm tryin... I heard it gets easier.

Good luck to you!!

What does ur diet consist of?

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Cupcake    801

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You're halfway there Cupcake!!! U can do it!!!

Thank you for the encouragement , I am pushing forward.

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mistifish21    1

mistifish21
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I see my dr tomorrow to begin my six month pre-op diet. I was very disappointed to have to wait since I'm getting married in May and was hoping for a slimmer, sexier me. I'm worried b/c my insurance only covers it if I have a bmi of 35 and a health problem. I have a bmi of 36.5 and am diabetic. I'm worried if I lose weight I won't be approved. I feel stupid worrying I might need to gain weight for a procedure to help me lose.

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MKG    3

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I am also looking at March or April for my surgery. Started seeing dietician in September. Saw her again in October, and have 3 rd appointment with her in November. I have BCBS insurance, and am required to have 6 months of supervised dietary counciling before surgery. I don't have any of the other appointments made yet. I open the dietician or someone at the bariatric office will help me with setting those up. Anxious to get going, but little worried about the small amount of food I'll be able to eat.

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paj92434    27

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Hi MKG, I will also have surgery sometime in April. I am goin through Beaumont in Royal Oak, MI. I have BCN of MI. I only have copays for office visit. I try to schedule all appts on same day each month.

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MaggieMae    5

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It is interesting how the doctors office's are so different. At my docs, we schedule EVERYTHING out for 6 months. I too only have my doctors copays. thank goodness. that is a huge savings.

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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

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        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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