I decided to try out a different support group meeting and I liked that one much better! It is smaller and the people are more friendly. A lot of what was said really was great advise. I was only one of two working toward a DS; everyone else was looking at or already had a [...]
At the very end of my steps to surgery was the last step I personally needed to do before surgery: a psychological evaluation. After the psych eval all of the paper work is submitted to the insurance company and then I play the waiting game waiting for approval. The couple of weeks leading up to [...]
Last month I started taking the Bariatric Advantage Pre-op multivitamins after hearing at some of the classes and support meetings that surgeries have been postponed due to vitamin deficiencies. At my last class (called First Steps class- basically a crash course in right before and right after surgery) it was suggested that calcium citrate and [...]
So I know that after surgery my tastes will change but for the week prior to surgery (5 days) I have to have a clear liquid diet. I also know that after surgery protein supplements are going to be needed at least until I am used to getting the protein I need from food only. [...]
As part of my WLS program I go to support meetings once a month. I went to my first one last week and it was crowded! Must have been 30-40 plus people there. Most of what was said was very helpful and encouraging in my own journey but some of what I heard in private [...]
So since one on the things I wanted to do in this blog is to journal my weight loss journey I should maybe talk about that a little bit. I moved up to the Normal/Bloomington area of Illinois in January 2009 because my boyfriend lost his job in Florida and the $1100 rent was kind [...]
