Kaiser Richmond Pre-op

[swishbc 0]

Thanks for the advice, Riley! I actually am kickin' butt already and am just excited to get to goal.

I've lost 21.2 lbs in 7 weeks which is an average of 3 lbs a week...not too shabby! I also am journaling everything I eat and my workouts including how long and how many calories burned via my heart rate monitor. I love that thing!

I just finished a turbo workout and burned 675 calories. I did 20 minutes on the bike and 60 on the treadmill. I'm gonna hop on the tready later tonight and walk during the 2 hours of biggest loser, but probably not at as much of a hard pace.

I'm going with Nicole tomorrow for her CM appt and am going to do a weigh in at the bariatric dept. I was 291 the last time I was weighed there so it'll be nice to see at least a 15 lb difference, maybe more!

[swrktp 1]

Hello All

So glad everyone is back!! Missed all the chatter

I think were are all on the same track right now. I am strangely getting nervous now and I don't even have a date. I am 1 pound away from goal. I have been the same for 5 days now. What happened 1-2 pounds every couple of days last week?? 12 down and now I am stuck!! I thought I could lose it by Friday but maybe not!! LOL. I am going to undereat and over execise until Friday and way extra water!! It is also that time of the month so I hope that if I give it a few days that maybe this is just Water weight..............I can hope anyway.

So nice to know they will work with us long term. That helps. I am ready for my CM appointment and than pre op. It is just the surgery I am starting to get nervous about now. Why? I guess it is going so fast now and I realize this is real now not just an idea.

I can't decide between lap band and RNY but I am on this site so it shows where I am leaning. I am 20% undecided right now!! LOL.

Yea I like the staff at Richmond alot. The psych appointment was fun I liked Dr. S. Would like to pick her for individual sessions if I lived in Richmond. Wise woman.

So good luck tomorrow. Who does everyone have for doctors?? I have Dr. Baggs.

Oh and I know about the scales I like the same one Riley. Gave me a -3 rating from 246-243............yes, yes I did have my coat, shoes and sweater off as well. Dr. Baggs walked in while I talked to the office staff and told them about the weight difference..............he started laughing maybe because he knew they had just adjusted them all and they were all the same and there I was telling the office staff that the other scale was better!! LOL.

Wish we were all in the same pre op class. I am going on vacation in March and hope to have it the week I get back the end of March. I gotta get me some of that cranberry stuff!! GReat idea!!

Edited January 28, 2009 by swrktp

[swrktp 1]

Can someone tell me about the EKG? What can I expect how long?

[swishbc 0]

Riley, (and anyone else that's had a CM appt) did you bring a food journal with you? Are we supposed to?

[AudsMom 2]

It took like maybe 2 min? I laid down and she put the things on me... and then she said ok get up. lol it was super fast. THe blood work took way longer..

Can someone tell me about the EKG? What can I expect how long?

[swrktp 1]

Thanks Aud. I was afraid it would take a long time so I didn't go at lunch today. So is the EKG the same place as the blood draw done?

I really need to get it done this week so I can have before I get my CM appointment.

I am indimadated I have only lost 13 pounds look at you all go!! I have already hit a plateau. I wanted to be 30 down before surgery. Maybe I will make it yet!!

Good luck all tell us how the CM appointments go?

Oh Riley what kind of a physical for pre op appoint? Do you know?

[reggie71 0]

christine, You go girl! It is exciting to see everyone rocking! I'm struggling right now to get back on track. I haven't lost much because I have been off plan. Does anybody struggle days before the time of the month?? I have been eating like a pig and can't seem to stop. Help yall!! :-).

[swrktp 1]

Hey Reggie it is that time for me as well and I feel like I gained everything back I lost. I know I didn't but it is discouraging!!

My orientation was december 16 and I was fine until all the family arrived for Christmas. I ended up giving up until everyone left after new years. To much eating out and at other peoples houses.

I know if I had started the day after orientation I would have already been at goal weight. I lost two solid weeks to Christmas.

I had to start on New Years and than it took a good week before I really got strict and cut everything out.

No carbs or soda at all today but no weight loss either. Ahh I hope the bloat is just Water gain.

I have to go on blood pressure medication this week. How sad right before surgery, losing weight and still high blood pressure. Gonna take a Beta Blocker.

[swishbc 0]

C'mon Reggie...get back up, dust yourself off and start over again! You can do it, you are a strong deserving woman! I get the munchies before my period too but since orientation I've tried really hard to make those munchies be something like fruit or veggies or sometimes 4 M&M's...but only 4!

I know you can do this, it seems like a long road to goal but it will get there and it will be so awesome to have a headstart before surgery with 30-ish pounds down!

I just told my hubby tonight that I thought I'd never get to my goal and now I'm so close I can taste it! And it's only been 7 weeks!

Would it help to have an accountability partner? I'd love to be there as a team and we could check in via email or phone once a day and make sure we're both still on track. We can make sure we're both working out and eating well. Let me know if you want to do that.

Let's do this girl! (((hugs)))

[riley4183 0]

Good luck today ladies! Let us know how it went!

My pre-ops and classes are Feb. 5th.

The pre-op medical exam is short, I went with a friend to hers and I stayed in the room. He goes over the medications in very fine detail, goes over instructions for the day before surgery, he is a very professional medical assistant EE GADS I can't remember his name right now! Thomas something . . . His pic is hanging in the surgeon's waiting area. The actual lay-on-the-table exam is very short, shorter even than the one Dr. Baggs did, you lay down and pull up your shirt and he looks and presses and you're done.

[swrktp 1]

I got my lab work and EKG done today!! After two hour of waiting at the lab out in Roseville!! And I got weighed while I was there so I could have it on my medical record. I was 240.4!!!! Below goal weight and that is with clothes on. I was in utter shock I thought I was back u to 244 again last night. I think maybe my scale is the problem

So I called Kaiser and I have my CM appointment on February 9, 2009. They will set up surgery than I guess. I was told to try and be 3-4 pounds under 240 in case there is Water weight or a difference in the scales. I actually hope to be more like 10 pounds under that since I have a little more than two weeks to work on it.

Seems like going over the 64 ounces of water is really speeding things up with weight loss.

So how is everyone doing today??

[riley4183 0]

woo-hoo! You are TOTALLY kickin butt!!! Yes you will get your surgery date at your CM appointment, that is SO EXCITING!!! Congratulations!

[riley4183 0]

Holy cow Christine, that's a lot of exercise! A lot of weight loss too, thats great! I will also lose at 3 lbs a week, but for me then I go for 3 weeks without losing a dag blammed THING, and there is no reason for that! Just none at all . . but it sure happens! Keep up the great work!:bored:

[reggie71 0]

Thanks Tina. Christine I think I'll take you up on the accountability team. We checked on FB and lets keep doing that. I have dusted myself off and I'm getting back on track. LOL. I hate the time of the month. I called Kelly but she was out for the week, so I left a message for her. Hopefully she'll call me on Monday as I am so done waiting :-).

[riley4183 0]

Have any of you recently been diagnosed with apnea and started treatment? They JUST called me in for sleep study . . .I was screened way back in November and no one called me until last week to come in - and it showed moderate apnea, which I now have to treat with a CPAP that they of course want me to purchase, go to a class on the 13th etc. this is at my local Kaiser. My surgery is scheduled for the 23rd! I do not have ANY apnea symptoms and was all zeros and 1's on the epworth questionnaire, but in any case I could have already been being treated for it if they had called me back when I did the screening! Has anyone else been diagnosed right before surgery?

Riley