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my insurance does not cover it

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no worries :0

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I noticed that when I was researching the sleeve

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Too bad about your insurance, but it seems like lots of people go to Mexico for the surgery. I'm eating sugar free popsicles, too. Anything that will help.

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My surgery is scheduled for January 3 in Mexico. I’m on day 5 of the liquid diet. My clinic had me do a 5 day colon cleanse. The natural herbs used made me feel full.

Tomorrow will be the test being around family and all the food.

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Which Dr. are you using and what kind of colon cleanse? Today was a hard test but I passed , praying tomorrow will be easier .Merry Christmas

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Too bad about your insurance, but it seems like lots of people go to Mexico for the surgery. I'm eating sugar free popsicles, too. Anything that will help.

My surgery is January 03 and this day 5 for me and it’s very hard. Sometime will not eat just Water.< br>

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Jan 3rd for me. I’m on my 6th day of liquid diet. Allowed 4 shakes, 2 bars, 1 banana, and up to 3 servings of sugar free Jello. For Christmas Day, I was allowed to have 4 oz of turkey (no gravy) and 1oz of green Beans if I wanted it. I did eat it, but now my stomach is making a lot of crazy noises!
Thankfully I’m not hungry at all on the liquid diet. I don’t think I’ve lost a single pound on it though.


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On 12/24/2017 at 10:49 PM, cherri_wyatt said:

Which Dr. are you using and what kind of colon cleanse? Today was a hard test but I passed , praying tomorrow will be easier .Merry Christmas

Thank you for your prayers. Blessed Herbs - ginger colon cleanse and Trinity Medical. Christmas wasn’t too bad. I was able to use putting my toddlers to sleep and missed all the action. I ended having to tell my sister on Christmas Eve because she kept pushing food. (She’s hosting all the activities at her house).

Whose your doctor? How did Christmas go?

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5 hours ago, niceross said:

Jan 3rd for me. I’m on my 6th day of liquid diet. Allowed 4 shakes, 2 bars, 1 banana, and up to 3 servings of sugar free Jello. For Christmas Day, I was allowed to have 4 oz of turkey (no gravy) and 1oz of green Beans if I wanted it. I did eat it, but now my stomach is making a lot of crazy noises!
Thankfully I’m not hungry at all on the liquid diet. I don’t think I’ve lost a single pound on it though.

hi niceross. It took a few days for my weight to start dropping but I noticed it in other ways first. How do your clothes feel on you? I moved up my drivers side seat closer to the steering wheel. Friends of mine did a double take when they saw me. Have you weighed yourself recently? I do think you're losing weight but I think it starts internally. I wish you a lot of luck and when you start to see it on the scale, you will be pleasantly surprised.

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My surgery is also January 03 I’m getting my mind ready for the new Journey and outcome. I have been overweight all my life and it’s time for a change. I have been in my feeling of the liquid diet. And I don’t that I have lost any weight myself.

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2018 is our year!! We can do it!

I'm looking forward to less joint pain and getting my face back, and lots of other things, of course.

For the people not hungry on the liquid diet, good for you! I am less hungry as days go by. I'm back to work tomorrow, and wish I could stay home, but at least it will be a less intense week than usual.

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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.

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