I hope all of you had a good easter holiday, It was my last solid
meal for awhile as tomorrow is the a day of fun filled potty trips
for pre-op, my surgery is april 22nd, wish me well! hope to see
everyone on the losing side.
apryl
california
fountain valley hospital
Dr. Leport
Hi to all..
I am new to this group, I have been reading your posts for about two
weeks now.
I live in Australia and am finding it extremely difficult to find
alot of Australian information on Gastric Bypass surgery so if I have
to log into an American site so be it!! Atleast there is a support
group. I am seeing the Surgeon for the second time which is when I
will get my date for surgery!! Woo Hoo can’t wait!! I am 180kg which
I think is about 395 pounds So I have alot of work ahead of me I know
but I am Soooo ready for this.. I am going to have the Gastric Bypass
hopefully Laparoscopically but there are no gaurantee’s so I would
like to hear from people about there experiences with either way..
And how much weight loss is everyone averagingper week?
I hope to hear some news soon.
Thankyou to you all for having such a strong Support Group.
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Does anyone have any experience with Dr. Peter Tomasello in Plantation,
Florida? My PCP has referred me to him, and there is not much info on
him on the Obesityhelp website.
Thanks,
Stephanie
Stephanie: Would you share your recipe with us all? We can all use that
anti-dry formula and the exfoliate. I spend much too much on these products
at local bath and beauty shops.
Deb
I know why I’m doing this, but only you can sit down and ask yourself why
you did this. For me, that’s how I know I have an addiction…..at the
smell of good food cooking I can deny and rationalize all the pain that
brought me to my WLS decision. The truth goes out the window and I want to
eat. That sounds like a food addict to me!
Even knowledge abt. addiction can’t save me against this heredity factor for
obesity which has left me biochemically disadvantaged.
In working with DUI offenders, I see a repeated reason why the many repeat
to have a 2nd or 3rd DUI…….their only plan is to not drink or get behind
the wheel. Yet when intoxicated, their judgement is impaired and they do
what they always do…thus another DUI.
My point is that for me I need a plan that’s etched in stone as to what i
will do and who will I call….this is life and death to me. I need to find
someone with some clean time to assist me in this walk. I will write an
insurance plan for me of people to call if I want to go back to living in
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I have been researching all aspects of WLS and I have been wondering
if you all could share with me your experience with your post-op
diets and your sugar intake. I know from reading here on OSSG & books
that sugar causes dumping. Yet I also have read that yogurt is
suggest for post-op diets. My question is, how many sugar grams are
post-ops recommended to steer clear of? I have noticed that yogurt
has anywhere from 15-22 grams of sugar? Wouldn’t that cause a problem
with dumping? Or is that not enough? How do you judge post-op what
would be OK to eat without dumping? (Is there a magic number of
grams?)
As far as yogurt goes are there certain brands or flavor that are
better for post-ops?
Thank you in advance for sharing your experience and knowledge.
Kate O
Northern CA
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Hi everybody,
Janice it was really helpful reading your posting. My DR.’s, the family
practice and my psych, keep telling me that these web sights don’t have
people on them that have failed or have terrible side effects, that they
don’t use the groups or want to talk about their experiences. I am scheduled
for open RNY on April 30 and my health plan is still trying to figure out if
I’ll be able to handle the emotional effect of all this. The waiting alone is
driving me crazy. I have a long history of clinical depression as do other
members of my family. I think anyone who eats there way to 312 lbs like I
have, has some issues that may have caused the overeating years ago but have
continued out of habit. My main problem is that I can’t live the way I want
to with all this fat around me! I am a single mom with a young active child
and a family history of heart disease and early death. A big part of my
depression now is the weight, as I’m sure it is for many of you. If I were
starving myself or was addicted to some other substance the DR’s would be
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I saw a TV infomercial about “Bob Barefoot’s Coral Calcium” being
way superior to other calciums and way more easily aborbed, and its
in capsule form. So, on impulse, I ordered three bottles. Now I’m
sitting here wondering about what I got. It doesn’t say calcium
citrate on it anywhere. It includes Vit. D and Magnesium and Boron
(and boron I recently read on site is something we should have) and
alot of other vitamins and minerals. Three capsules give you 1000
mg coral calcium.
Does anybody know if we can ingest and readily absorb coral
calcium? Has anybody else hear of this “Bob Barefoot” guy? Or am I
the only one to see this infomercial on TV? I seem to recall
someone saying that calcium from oysters is not the right kind for
us. So that made me wonder about it being from corals.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Chris
Its interesting to learn other post ops have experienced changes in their
sleeping habits. For me, pre-op I had sleep apnea really bad plus I had insomnia
and had to take AMbien every night, and sometimes two. It was really desperate.
After the surgery, I guess I was so knocked out by it and of course trying to
limit the meds because of my brand new sensitive pouch - that I didn’t use
ambien anymore. I go to sleep just fine now. I think the fact that I lost so
much weight in my neck area had a profound affect on that. I find I wake up
sometimes in the middle of the night and I might better spend that time being up
and about. But I fall back to sleep and find I wake up early (this is a real
change) and ready to go. I don’t feel like I’m in a stupor or a fog in the
morning anymore. So now I’m not going to worry about feeling wakeful at times
and maybe I’ll just mosey over to the computer until I feel sleepy again. Chris
Hi, I’m Chris. It’s now about nine weeks since my surgery and I did something
really wonderful today. I went hiking in a park with my daughter and son. It
wasn’t hard core hiking, but I spent about an hour walking up and down inclines
and meandering paths and my back didn’t hurt once! It was just an amazing feat
for me. There were further trails, but they are for a future time. Right now I
am filled with such a sense of accomplishment!. My son commented about how,
after the surgery I could walk 1-3 blocks and now look how far I could go! My
kids thought I did awesome and they were so happy for me! The other nice thing
that happened recently was that there is a picnic table outside of the building
where I work and it was a really beautiful day and I didn’t want to eat inside
— so I looked at that table and thought maybe-just maybe- I might fit. So I
tried it and was so happy when I could get in and out of it gracefully. So I
enjoyed a picnic lunch outside on a beautiful day at a picnic table — something
I haven’t been able to do for years. My plataeu has been broken too and I am now
started to lose again. Thank you to everyone for sharing about protein shakes,
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