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Frustr8    7,886

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Muscle Milk is my favorite along with Premier Protein Peaches and Creme. Love strawberry the most of MM, Along with the Blueberry Greek Yogurt.

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iattcom    96

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Got my time for the surgery, I have to be at the hospital at 6am and my procedure starts at 7:30. This will all take place on the 26th. I am ready for the surgery part of this to be over. The liquid part of it has not been all that bad. I am doing well. I have managed to get off of all of my shots for my diabetes.

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CRD1981    28

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Got my time for the surgery, I have to be at the hospital at 6am and my procedure starts at 7:30. This will all take place on the 26th. I am ready for the surgery part of this to be over. The liquid part of it has not been all that bad. I am doing well. I have managed to get off of all of my shots for my diabetes.
I have to be at the hospital at 5 a.m. and my surgery starts at 7:30 as well. I'm just feeling all the emotions

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JessLess    1,163

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I have what seems like an unusual concern. I'm all ready to set my date for VSG and I have a great doctor, just waiting for my insurance authorization, which I hope will come soon. Then I am going to tell my work that I need the time off. I work for a small start up, we just hired an HR person! I'm more worried about getting the time off, and I don't want to disclose what surgery I am having, than anything else. We only get 3 weeks PTO a year and I have taken one. I really hope it will be no big deal, but now I wish I worked for a more normal, large corporation.

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iattcom    96

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Have you been there more then a year? Family Medical Leave may be an option. However you might have to disclose the type of surgery you are having

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12 minutes ago, iattcom said:

Have you been there more then a year? Family Medical Leave may be an option. However you might have to disclose the type of surgery you are having

No, but I am in sales and my sales numbers are quite high, which leads me to believe (hope?) they will want to keep me. If not, I have savings and am prepared to get fired or laid off, get COBRA, and get a new job. I have a couple of standing offers to do sales at other tech companies near me.

They do know I have debilitating back pain (I have a standing desk, etc.) and that is one of the main reasons I am getting the surgery. I (and my doctors) think getting the weight off will really help my back.

At least worrying about this has me totally fearless about the surgery itself! :)

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CRD1981    28

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No, but I am in sales and my sales numbers are quite high, which leads me to believe (hope?) they will want to keep me. If not, I have savings and am prepared to get fired or laid off, get COBRA, and get a new job. I have a couple of standing offers to do sales at other tech companies near me.
They do know I have debilitating back pain (I have a standing desk, etc.) and that is one of the main reasons I am getting the surgery. I (and my doctors) think getting the weight off will really help my back.
At least worrying about this has me totally fearless about the surgery itself! [emoji4]
If it's medical you're safe, as long as you have the surgeon's office send your job a letter. The letter that was sent to my job did not inform what type of surgery I was having only that I'll be out for a short amount of time because I'm having surgery. And as of September 26th I'll be out on medical leave for my job.

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Unfortunately, I don't know that to be true for a company smaller than 50 people. I believe the prevailing law is "work at will" which means they can let anyone go for any reason. Is there something legally I don't know about?

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My surgery is scheduled for 10/29/2018. it took 5 months to get all of the testing done (EKG, endoscope, colonoscopy, ultrasound, psyc approval). The insurance company gave the OK last Friday. I haven't felt nervous, just excited. I am ready to stop the yoyo diet lifestyle. I have tried all of the regular, and some not so regular, weight loss plans. I would lose well, and then gain it all back, plus few extra pounds. I am ready to leave that in the past as I start this new part of my life.

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My surgery is scheduled for 10/29/2018. it took 5 months to get all of the testing done (EKG, endoscope, colonoscopy, ultrasound, psyc approval). The insurance company gave the OK last Friday. I haven't felt nervous, just excited. I am ready to stop the yoyo diet lifestyle. I have tried all of the regular, and some not so regular, weight loss plans. I would lose well, and then gain it all back, plus few extra pounds. I am ready to leave that in the past as I start this new part of my life.
Let's do this!!!!

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My surgery is scheduled for 10/29/2018. it took 5 months to get all of the testing done (EKG, endoscope, colonoscopy, ultrasound, psyc approval). The insurance company gave the OK last Friday. I haven't felt nervous, just excited. I am ready to stop the yoyo diet lifestyle. I have tried all of the regular, and some not so regular, weight loss plans. I would lose well, and then gain it all back, plus few extra pounds. I am ready to leave that in the past as I start this new part of my life.

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    • Alisa_S

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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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    • Alisa_S

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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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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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