Tomorrow I have list of appointments in anticipation of my 11/24/09 band surgery. I start with a 3 hour band class, then a diet education class (for liver shrinking preop diet), surgeon consult, and finally psyc eval.

I'm a little nervous about the changes that are coming. How hard will it be to change my habits? How much of what I currently do is an emotional response? I will soon find out...

I did not find the change that hard. I am never hungry. I feel so much better. You will feel better too. It seems so long ago I was going thru the same preparations. I guess everyone goes thru some sort of work up before LB. I am 19 weeks out and have lost 68 wonderful pounds :-) I could not have done this any other way. Given my history. Best wishes to you. imaluckydog

I have an appointment to discuss the liver shrinking diet on the 4th of Dec but I want to start now. Can you tell me if it is basically the Atkins diet? Is it just as simple as only eating 30g of carbs a day because I cant believe you can eat stuff like butter and mayonaise and so much bacon and cheese? I dont want to get it wrong.

I am a complete carb junkie and I have just done my first week without them. I am nowhere near as hungry as I was but I have lost 3lb.

I feel the same way you do about eating habits. Its so hard to look at a plate of food without carbs and not feel something is missing. Then you feel deprived and who wants to feel like that all the time?

But I tell myself that its just the way I have been programmed and like a computer I just need re programming.

Good luck for the 24th hope it all goes well. x