I’m super excited to start this journey. My insurance requires a 3 month program so I still have 2 months to go. I have watched many YouTube videos, researched websites, read books just so I will know what I’m getting myself into. I know everyone’s journey is different but many go through some of the same things. So my question is what advice would you give to someone who’s just getting started on this journey ? For example, I know hair loss seem to be common among Bariatric patients, would you suggest taking vitamins now ? Are there questions you would have asked your doctor but didn’t know to ask at the time ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated ?

Congratulations on getting started!! I am having VSG on March 11. I'm still a noob myself, but a couple things I would suggest... if you're a soda drinker, give it up now! Will be so much easier the sooner you do it. And take the remaining months you have educating yourself as much as you can about this complete life change. You got this!!

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3 hours ago, Shanda_2019 said:

I’m super excited to start this journey. My insurance requires a 3 month program so I still have 2 months to go. I have watched many YouTube videos, researched websites, read books just so I will know what I’m getting myself into. I know everyone’s journey is different but many go through some of the same things. So my question is what advice would you give to someone who’s just getting started on this journey ? For example, I know Hair loss seem to be common among Bariatric patients, would you suggest taking Vitamins now ? Are there questions you would have asked your doctor but didn’t know to ask at the time ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated ?

Congratulations! I'm a newbie myself and my surgery date is March 19. When I went to my dietitian she had me to start my multivitamin now. And she also had me to try out some protein shakes to see which ones I would like. I am so excited right now! I wish you the best in your journey to come.?

Congrats to all of you guys! You guys will do great, it’s exciting! Some recommendations I have is do not buy many things for after surgery. I bought like 4 boxes of protein shakes and so much broths and Jello .. I ended up only using very little of the broth and gave them all away. Also, more than half of my jellos are still in the fridge. For the protein shakes, I am barley half way through a box and I’m already very tired of them.. but I have 4 boxes left and I can’t return them.