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rasvin 15 years, 1 month ago

Congrats on your surgery!! Wishing you a speedy recovery can't wait to be a loser haha ;-)

Stacy S. 15 years, 1 month ago

Want to wish you the very best and I am sending warm thoughts and lots of prayers to you for an uneventful surgery and a very speedy recovery.

maggiesmiles 15 years, 2 months ago

Congrats on your surgery!! Wishing you a speedy recovery and I can't wait to joing you on the loser's bench :)

sanjali23 15 years, 2 months ago

I wish you the very best during your surgery and hope everything goes well. Also wishing you a speedy recovery

Irishcoda 15 years, 2 months ago

Hi, best wishes on your upcoming surgery and for a very speedy recovery! :)

jillden 15 years, 3 months ago

This comment is in regards to this, posted by someone else: I am sorry, but this is not a question. Many of you are asking questions that should have been addressed by your surgeon or nutritionist LONG before surgery... but apparently haven't. I STRONGLY recommend reading "Before and After" by Susan Maria Leach. She is 6 years post-op RNY, having lost 131 pounds and kept it off. The book is a brief bio, brief pre-op journal, post-op journal, list of questions and answers (to exactly the kinds of questions being asked on this board), and 135 low-carb, high protein recipes for living and eating well after weight-loss surgery. I got this book after another gastric bypass acquaintance recommended it - saying it was her "Bible" - and I can see why. I am pre-op gastric bypass, just waiting for my insurance to approve the procedure, and I have already been on the high-protein, low carb diet since October. I've lost 25 pounds so far, because my surgeon required me to lose as much weight as I could before the bypass, to help reduce the fatty liver, and also, to get used to "living the plan". I am living off of fish, turkey, chicken, cottage cheese, regular cheese, and a very few vegetables. I've been in preparation for this surgery ever since I decided in September to do it, and it is hard for me to understand those on this list who would work so hard to get approved for surgery, then after healing, think that they can go back to eating the way they did before. Sugar is a NO-NO. White carbs (potatoes, pasta, chips, popcorn, BREAD) are a no-no. Even if you are ABLE to eat them without being sick... they are NOT a part of your life-long eating plan. I highly recommend this book, please get it and follow it. I got it as part of a "beginner's kit" from another bariatric site. My comment: That's ridiculous. 35 calorie bread is perfectly fine to eat. Real people eat bread and if you don't learn to eat the way real people eat (just modifying it because we have to) you will never stick to it life-long. Same with pasta. I also eat 1/2 cal. chips by Frito-Lay and Pringles. I know what works. I'm over 8 years post-op and have lost and kept off 180 pounds and now weigh 137 pounds at 5'4", 52 years old. You can't the way you did before, but you can eat more normally than you think. Gotta be creative, though!