Had my first 2 hour pre op educational workshop last night. I have to go to a total of 3 workshops prior to surgery. It was an interesting mix of men and women and people having RNY and the Sleeve. I can't say that I learned anymore than I have already learned from this site and from my surgical binder, but it was informative and I got to hear other people's stories. I also have homework!! Lol, some of it is easy, like read this article , track your food and exercise for 3 days, the harder one is 4 pages of questions that are factual, not how you feel. We also had to set a food goal for the week. Mine is to try to sip Water throughout the day instead of gulping it down when I am thirsty and we had to start taking our Vitamins. Oh and we got a list of the post op support groups. I am going to go to the next one on July 26th called "Divorcing your Food Addictions".

I was hoping to meet someone local so that I could have a buddy to go through the process with and to exercise with,but I don't think that will happen as we don't live near each other. I did tell everyone about this site though and how wonderful it is with the information and the support and that it is extremely user friendly.

Does or did anyone else have to go through pre op educational workshops?

Yes, the program I'm in required 4 weekly "healthy lifestyle" classes and 4 "know your bypass" classes. I learned a ton of helpful info, plus made some friends along the way.

We did 1 new step for success each week. One week it was simply writing down absolutely everything we ate or drank. Another week we worked on physical activity or meal planning or whatever.

Edited July 9, 201412 yr by April Biloxi