After months of waiting, doctor visit after doctor visit, being poked and prodded, prodded and poked, I am finally on my way. July 15 is my surgery date!!!! I started my one meal replacement shake today and of course my DH is on vacation and fried bacon. I LOVE bacon!! Didn't eat any though. I am thrilled, scared, excited, scared, impatient, scared....Did I mention scared? I keep asking myself if I am doing the right thing? Why can't I do it the old fashioned way? Diet, exercise.......I think my pride is really standing in my way of being 100% committed to this. Is that normal? Anyway, I am praying for God's strength to get me through the next couple of months of liquid diet, surgery, post-op problems, etc., etc. I have never been really good at journaling but have gotten so much motivation and information from the blogs here that I no it will only increase my success with this process. Now, if someone can tell me how to put a picture here I'll give it a try. Hopefully one of the last pictures I will truly hate Thank you for letting me share this journey with you.

Hi, Yes you can do this and don't let it frustrate you , cause you can do this. For I don't know why you have to start a month out on your meal replacement , when all i had to do is 1 week of total meal replacements. I didn't think i could do this and i did and lost a total of 10lbs in a week. so just take one day at a time and you will get thru this. we all go thru hard times and I worry about wether or not if i have already stretched my band for to me i don't eat much , but at times i can tell i over eat what i should . i go for my first fill on the 25th , don't let any one tell you you don't have to work at this. i work at this all the time exercising making my meals and seeing if the weight is coming off like it should. I have a goal of loosing 20lbs this month and anything extra would be good. so hang in there and it will pass fast.

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Keep up the great attitude I love it....... For the picture I copied one from my computer of my dog. Then I pasted it in to my avitar on your spot or blog space. I am so glad for this site it has so helped me keep my paws out of the cookie jar. Thanks again imaluckydog

ucdep99 - I think they want to see if I can take the tiny step before jumping off the cliff LOL

imaluckydog - I LOVE your user name and pic. Thanks for the tip!