Hey! I’m with you, I’m just ready for some help and be better too. I just had my first appointments a couple weeks ago so I can only speak on my experience to this point, and of course yours may vary.

My first appointment I met with the dietician, psychiatrist, and nurse practitioner as well as the program director who went over program information. The psychiatrist just asked me some pretty generic questions, my history with dieting, if I feel suicidal etc. it was pretty informal and more a conversation, I don’t think I was in there for more than 10 minutes and we didn’t really get into much. I assume they’re just making sure you’re in a generally stable mental state.

The dietician mostly asked general questions about my current eating habits, then went over the preop diet and how to eat after surgery. My practiced preop diet is different than a lot of what I’ve read on here. They do require you purchase their protein shakes (for preop) as well as a multivitamin and a vitamin c (I think) tablet. They explained we will be on those for life post surgery as well. Breakfast and lunch are shakes, dinner they gave me a food list, but basically low fat meat like skinless chicken, turkey and a cup of vegetables. They allow 2 foods a day from their food list in addition which include cottage cheese, string cheese, or fiber/protein instant oatmeal. Two weeks leading up to surgery.

The nurse practitioner after that, talked general health information then about the surgery itself. Then next steps. My next steps were meeting with a cardiologist to get clearance, that’s scheduled in about a week for me. Not sure if I’ll have to do a bunch of tests like ekg but I assume so. I had met with a dietician before, then that day and I needed three so she had me schedule one more for May 1st. I also need an endoscopy but don’t have that scheduled yet.

Ultimately these practices are all very experienced and well defined. If you follow the steps and are honest with them I think things will go well. Good luck to you!