Hello everyone I’m Marissa and I’m only nineteen years old. I’m very scared to have this surgery. I was hoping to find a friend in here to talk to about what’s happing with each other. I’m hoping to find someone who just started this journey and is going to attend there first appointment this month. Also for people that have had the surgery already can you all please leave me some advice that you wish you had gotten when going thru this journey.
Thank you all so much.

Hello everyone I’m Marissa and I’m only nineteen years old. I’m very scared to have this surgery. I was hoping to find a friend in here to talk to about what’s happing with each other. I’m hoping to find someone who just started this journey and is going to attend there first appointment this month. Also for people that have had the surgery already can you all please leave me some advice that you wish you had gotten when going thru this journey.
Thank you all so much.

Hello Marissa! Congrats and welcome to the club! I just had my surgery a couple weeks ago. For starters I remember being really excited and the feeling of wanting it to feel real and doing the things within my power to get going lol. The Drs will instruct you on your journey of what to do and all the different people on here have different instructions. Make sure to follow what your Dr has laid out for a plan. I did small things like I bought tiny silverware to practice eating smaller bites and eating slower and measuring out 2TBSP and 1/4 cup of whatever I was eating first so I could get used to the visual of what that looks like because my Drs kept saying that after m my surgery I would only be able to eat about 2TBSP and eventually 1/4-1-2 cup. I also bought some bracelets from Amazon with lbs lost and encouraging words on them to mark my small victories. These we're just a few small things I could do that made me feel likeTHIS IS HAPPENING!!!! PS my surgery went really really well. There are always parts of getting used to your new life that will b be a struggle but you get over those humps. There are lots of nice, encouraging,knowledgeable, and helpful people here and your Drs office are always available too!

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Thankyou so much jezzabelle360 for the great advice. I’ll make sure to follow what MY doctor says also I was looking on Amazon and I couldn’t find the bracelet you were talking about do you mind posting the link I think I want to get that so I can see my progress. Anyways thanks so much for the advice.

I’m almost 9 months out from surgery. The best piece of advice I can give you (being on this app) is follow your own plan given to you by your team. You are going to find so many discrepancies between meal plans, pre op diets, post op transitions (when to introduce new foods) just follow your plan