I am looking to have my sleeve surgery in October also. My insurance requires a 6 mo.formal weight loss program participation before the surgery. I am using the coming mos to start my better habits. It will probably take me that long to give up soda,

We're about the same age/weight. I just finished the 2nd month of "supervised" diet. My first meeting with the surgeon is Monday and I'm hoping for a September surgery.

I am a year and 5 months out. Let me know if you have any questions always looking for new friends am about 12 pounds from goal but want to lose more.

I remember just before the procedure about maybe 3 weeks I was so emotional wanted to eat everything and everything I ate felt like a funeral! I was like oh my last hot dog lol

The hardest thing honestly was giving up diet coke! That and stopping caffeine I stopped caffeine for 6 months. If you are planning to stop caffeine do it before your surgey as well as cutting out the soda! Even now I still sometimes miss soda but... Don't drink at all it is one thing I am strict about.

My other advise would be to write down what you want and what your vision is now. Take pictures every month (I didn't do that and regret it) also take your measurements sometimes pound wise I did not go down but dropped in measurements.

My other thing I always had one smaller size I would buy from the thrift store and would try on every week that little trick helped get me down 6 sizes currently trying to go down another size!

Good luck! So glad I was sleeved

Hey Mike! I am almost 3 years out, 4 kids with spouses, 7 grandkids, coming up on 58 and started this whole thing at 386 pounds. No I'm not to goal yet, but I am nowhere near ready to be done yet either. So I'm still working the program and getting the weight off. Feel free to send a friend request. Havings a cool biker dude for a friend sounds like fun!

Just went to my learning session today. Didn't realize I needed 6 months of physician supervised dieting to get my insurance to pay. Made an appointment for next week with regular doc to start that process. What exactly does that mean physician supervised diet? Do we have to lose weight in the 6 months? I am kind of bummed as I would like to have gotten the sleeve this summer but I suppose by the time I get through all the other things it will be fall in no time!
Scared to death that I am making the right decision as this is a life changing thing! Good luck to us all!!

I have heard one of the hardest things is the fact you still crave food. Are you going through this and if so how do you deal with it?

I think everyone is different with this. I am just about 7 months out and I don't have any cravings at all, not even real hunger. I still eat by schedule.

hi my name is Jeanne, I am 52 and 10 days pre-op, I have 120 pounds I would like to lose. and like a few of you I have some contributing factors, I have been a type 1 diabetic for 46 years, I am also on peritoneal dialysis which adds about 1000 empty calories daily, I will be on hemo dialysis for about 3 to 4 months after surgery. I am not sure which panics me more pureed food or hemo dialysis. I am still really looking forward to this surgery, I have a shirt term goal outfit in my closet waiting patiently for me to cut the tags off. please friend me as I am new on here and have no idea how to friend people....yet.

I am in your shoes. I had done Weight Watchers for 8 mos last year, but my insurance said that would not meet the requirement because there was no physician attached. I actually called the hospital program where I am going to have the surgery to ask them what program other people use. They told me that I can meet w/their nutritionist once/mo for 6 mos and that will fulfill the reqirement. You may want to check w/the facility or program that you are using to have your surgery and see if meeting with them once per month would meet your requirement. That might be easier than trying to get into your personal MD every month. Good Luck!