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rose333    3

rose333
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Hey everyone! My name is rose and im new to this. Im looking to get more support and hear about everyones wonderful accomplishments.

A little bit about me, I have always been over weight. But the only thing is that I've always been active. I played basketball from the 3rd grade to my freshman year in high school but the junk food and stress got the best of me. I gained most of my weight in high school.

Now the numbers ughh.....

Highest weight:307

Current weight:277

Surgery weight:277

I was just recently contacted by Baratrics at Kaiser in Fremont, California that I will be having surgery on February 6th!!!! Im so happy and excited but nervous at the same time. I have to go to pre-op on the 25th. I just can't wait till February 6th... the day I change my life!

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kat77    63

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Ha...we are more than surgery date twins.... I am at 275.4 and my high weigh was 324... a bit more than you. I am 35 and 5.8 (used to be 5.10 lost 2 from back problems) I am also in Ca...going to have my surgery in riverside at park veiw by dr Kron. I hope well can get o know each other better.

Kat

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Wendilou    180

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Hi Rose! It's great to meet you =) I'm new here too--no surgery date yet as I'm still in the pre-op stages. We can go through this together!

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Vicki Loichinger    444

Vicki Loichinger
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Welcome rose, glad you found us. Look forward to sharing in your journey.

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sleevemeup    41

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Welcome! I am a week after you!

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lisaarellano    20

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Hey everyone! My name is rose and im new to this. Im looking to get more support and hear about everyones wonderful accomplishments.

A little bit about me' date=' I have always been over weight. But the only thing is that I've always been active. I played basketball from the 3rd grade to my freshman year in high school but the junk food and stress got the best of me. I gained most of my weight in high school.

Now the numbers ughh.....

Highest weight:307

Current weight:277

Surgery weight:277

I was just recently contacted by Baratrics at Kaiser in Fremont, California that I will be having surgery on February 6th!!!! Im so happy and excited but nervous at the same time. I have to go to pre-op on the 25th. I just can't wait till February 6th... the day I change my life![/quote']

I am Also kaiser Fremont. Who is your surgeon?

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Dawnolson    85

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What were your requirements for Kaiser Fremont? I am kaiser Nw and I've been doing classes and orientation and another class then visits with a nutritionist and Social worker. Have one more visit with them then one to blood tests and surgeon visit to hopefully get a date.

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rose333    3

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Thanks for all the support everyone! And my surgeon is Dr. Chu. The process for me was a little different than others. I started this journey last year February I attended 2 seminars and then met with the nutritionist and surgeon. But after that I wasn't too sure if I wanted to get the surgery so I decided to try one more time on my own but failed! So by November I decided this is the best thing for me and I called Bariatrics but had to get my referral reactivated witch took about a day or 2. Then they called me once they got the referral to set up an appointment over the phone with my surgeon. I had the over the phone appointment and next had to lose 5 pounds to be within 5 pounds of my surgery weight to see the psychiatrist and do blood work. I saw the psychiatrist and she said she was going to give all my paper work over to my surgeon and in a week I got a surprising phone call that I was all good to go and my surgery date is February 6th and pre-op is January 25th.

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rose333    3

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@Kat77 hey surgery twin hope we can get to know each other more and get threw this together! Im 5'7 an inch shorter lol but a bit younger im 20. Hope all is well February isnt coming fast enough for me!!!

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PB&J's MaMa    0

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@rose333 I'm also new to this and will be going thru Kaiser Fremont as well even though I live in San Jose. Just got the courage to call them yesterday to schedule my first seminar. Good luck to you on your journey and I look forward to reading about it.

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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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        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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