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there is wi-fi in the the hospital. I posted on my blog. i am really just to tired to do anymore right now. the link is below if your interested.

very excited for you!! my surgery is wednesday i can't wait for mine. good luck and let us know how it went for you.

also if you are having difficulty with finding stuff you can eat there is a lap band cookbook that i bought on amazon. it has alot of yummy looking recipies in it.

i have to side with everyone else on here. you are beating yourself up. you are doing a great job. as everyone else says this is not an easy process. most of the people who get this done have been overweight there whole lives. it takes more than a surgery to change habits. i totally get the drive through issues. i love me some arbys. every once and a while its ok to have something you want to eat just not all the time. I decided that once every 2 weeks i will have something small if i want it. you can't be expected to eat 100% healthy all the time. not even athletes and other thin people do that 24/7. so keep on truckin chikky

hope everything went well, i hope you have a speedy recovery

Today I am on the second day of my pre-op diet and omg this crap sucks! After getting over the fact that this is horrible i go to what makes it barable, for me its sugar free Jello. I don't know how I would survive this diet without it. What is helping you or helped you get through and when/was your surgery date? Dec. 8th 2010 surgery date.

I have kept a blog of my lap band journey thus far and I was looking at some of my old post and cam across a prayer I made that made me laugh and keep me going. I thought I would share it with you. Enjoy! Please give me the strength to choose carrots over chips, the courage to munch celery over chocolate and good sense to know when to it's time to drink diet instead of fully loaded. Amen.

it does get eaisier i promise, you might still be hungry all the time but you get used to it. hang in there it is worth it in the end. this is the last time you have to starve yourself for weight loss get some sugar free jello, it's been helping me alot.

thanks for the feedback guys

This post might be a little TMI for some, but I'm on the pre-op diet and I am drinking a ton of crystal light. About a gallon a day, because I can't get myself to drink that much water in a day. I feel like i'm forcing myself to throw up. Since I am only on liquid (liquid in, liquid out) the crystal light is turning my poop the color of the drink. I found this amusing and was wondering if anyone else was having an issue with this? I love crystal light but I'm afraid that it dieing my excriments might mean it's a little excess. Do you think I could have any issues because of the excess die?

I feel for you and I'm only in the pre-op diet phase. Hang in there and keep us updated on your weight loss

thats a touchy subject. i know how you feel kinda, my husband supports my choice for the surgery but he doesnt agree with it. i was in a program for the surgery about 2 years ago and he told me it was a big mistake and that I was just lazy and not trying hard enough. Also he was concerned about the trouble it might cause when it comes to having kids so i dropped out of the program. now i have really tried to lose the weight for him but i'm still here, so surgery here i come. I made it clear to him that this was what i needed and that i was going ahead with it and cleared his medical concerns for me but he still isn't a fan of it. So touchy subject all around and I'm married to my great guy. If you do tell him just make sure he knows how strongly you feel about it and thats who you are. In the long run guys can come and go, you have to make yourself happy. If he understands that then I say he's a keeper. good luck

Today I am on the second day of my pre-op diet and omg this crap sucks! After getting over the fact that this is horrible i go to what makes it barable, for me its sugar free jello. I don't know how I would survive this diet without it. What is helping you or helped you get through and when/was your surgery date? Dec. 8th 2010 surgery date.

YaY!!! good luck and speedy recovery. I will be following you in 7 days!!!

so excited for you. hang in there you will be fine. good luck to you! happy banding!! :yeah:

you will do fine, i'm on it right now and the first day was really hard and painful but now its alot better. i have lost 10lbs in the first 3days. it sucks but its worth it.

how is your pre-op diet going?

i had my seminar at the begining of august, pysch eval on the 31rst of august, fitness eval on the 4th of september and dietition on the 8th of september. I met with my surgeon for the first time on the 20th of september. I did all of my required stuff in October such as ekg, chest x-ray and bloodwork. I had my pre-op physical on the 29th of Nov along with my dietition follow up and I have my surgery on the 8th of december. i just had my second set of bloodwork done today. just enought time for the results to get back before surgery It all really depends on insurance though. Good Luck!!!

just want to give an update to everyone, today is my fourth day on the pre-op diet and I stepped on the scale for the first time this morning and I have lost 10lbs!!! so this is worth the hunger and everything that went with it. I'm not even hungry most of the time now. I think i want real food just to want it at this point. lol

i have the energy to, it's hard not to focus on being hungry, all weekend to keep my mind off it i have been playing my computer game. accidentaly stayed up till 2 am last night i was so engrossed lol