Shemy-away

You look amazing!! congratulations to you!!!

Well, on a positive note, even if you are up all night going to the bathroom, You can still catch up on sleep during and after surgery. you will be sleep during surgery and probably a few hours after if you are on a PCA pump. I *just* choked down a bottle 5 minutes ago. I will update you on how fast it works LOL ETA: I'm just now starting to feel nauseous and a little stomach rumbling. I think Shells hit the nail on the head with 2 hours.

congratulaitons for making it to "One-derland"!

Wow, 14? It seems so young, but you're right, you can't judge anyone without knowing the background of their decision. Hope all is well! When is your surgery scheduled?

I didn't even know Riverside had a Bariatric program. That's great! I'm happy you have a date.

Good luck! I can't wait to join you!

Congratulations!!! Where are you having it done?

It's not really about the liquid pre-op diet or the fact that my husband has chosen to cook ribs for dinner ( my favorite). I'm pissed at my surgeon right now. This is how I think. If I could loose weight on my own and keep it off, I wouldn't be getting this surgery. It took me months to lose the required 10lbs to qualify for surgery. And to my credit, I've held that weight off plus or minus 2 since November. Ok, next. I gain massive amounts of weight with my period. Always have. 5-8 lbs at least. I have PCOS, the wacky hormones come with the territory. The morning of pre-op I was 270. and severely bloated. I told him that. and do you know what he tells me??? "If you aren't at your pre-op weight of 266 on the day of surgery, we won't operate." Iwent from to "you're kidding right?" to to and finally i'm at WTF You're a physician, why would you put more stress on me knowing my issues with weight and that stress increases the amount of cortisol in your body, hampering weight loss efforts?? Why the hell would you say that to me? And for the past 4 days I've done nothing but obsess over what I eat, what I drink. I swear, I weigh myself every time I go to the bathroom to pee! Better to have said, Hey, good job maintaining your weight. I understand your period is coming and I'm sure you're a little stressed out from your upcoming surgery. Just stick to your pre-op diet, and you should loose extra pounds before your surgery. Wouldn't that be great? you could jump start your loses with the pre-op diet! I'm getting surgery so that I don't have to stress like this anymore. I should be entering into this surgery as calm as possible, not worried up to the morning of if I'm going to be cancelled. The more I think about it the more I get....

Longer-life, that's another good idea. I'm definitely going to document everything I've been doing and give them a call this week to let them know how serious I am. I was talking to my husband and it hit me that my appointmet was at 1030 and I had been up driving since 330 am from DC to Portsmouth. I was drinking coffee and protein shakes the entire time so of course my weight was up! I was also weighed fully clothed, I think the next time I will strip LOL I'm a lot more calm now that I've gotten different perspectives and ideas from everyone. Thanks for all of the support!!

I've always said, I will not listen to anyone giving me advice who hasn't been through the same journey. I hope that my story will add some credibility to my posts and inspire someone considered WLS. I'm on a quest to find the woman I lost years ago. She's somewhere in this body, I know that, I just haven't seen here in almost a decade. I'm almost 300 pounds on a 5 foot 7 frame. My family medical history is like Wal-Mart, you name it someone has it. I want to break the cycle of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. . I can't get back the years I've already lost, but I can make the years I have left that much better. I have a carb addiction, disillusion about the amount of food I should be eating, and an emotional eating habit. I was taught as a child to clean my plate, I remember at 8 years old looking forward to going to my grandma's because she always had pound cake made, and dinner consisted of meat, a few veggies, heaping mounds of carbs (rice/potatos) and rolls. 20 Years I've been addicted to carbs. My mom and I could go to a restaurant and finish an entire basket of rolls before our food came and still eat everything on our plate, plus another basket of rolls. Needless to say, I've never had a good example when it came to eating. Fast forward through middle school, when at 5"7 and 130 lbs I was the tallest girl in my entire school. Talk about a complex. At 9 I thought I was fat. Junior high, I'm still tall and muscular but everyone else is catching up. Rumors start that I'm taking steroids. Hence another complex about being "thick" and muscular. High School, the Revolution Years. I rebelled against EVERYTHING! Stress at home= emotional eating. I remember coming home from school and eating half a loaf of bread, toasted with butter and jelly because it made me feel better. Nutrition? What's that? It wasn't taught at our school. Lunch for 4 years, FOUR YEARS, consisted of chili cheese fries with extra cheese and sweet and sour dipping sauce, juice or soda, and some other high carb or fried food. FOUR. YEARS. I do remember a salad but it was far and few in-between. I think back on this and I cringe. What the heck are we doing to our kids??? My saving grace was band. The amount of practice we did counteracted some of the weight gain. I stayed around 180-200 lbs. College, the fittest years of my life. I decided to major in Nutrition, the one thing I had no knowledge of. Freedom to come and go as I pleased means more time in the gym. HBCU band practice consisted of intense PT at 5 am and intense practice from 3-7. I was at my fittest ever. I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't have pics to prove it. Grad school I continued my good gym habits, but even a nutrition degree can't combat the psychological condition of emotional eating. I started gaining weight. Then I got pregnant. My weight shot up to 230 with the first pregnancy and miscarriage and I gained 20 more from the stress. Pregnant again at 260 with the help of pills. I went up to 285. Lost 20 and have been stuck at 270 for 3 years. This brings us to today. 10 days from VSG surgery and positive about where my life is heading. I'm not one for sharing a lot of personal information, but I will try to keep this "blog" updated as I progress through. I need to learn how to let people in and break down this brick wall that I've built.

Thank you Liberated Sleeve!! Your support tonight has been Immeasurable! You really helped save my mental health I will keep you in my thought and prayers on the 5th and I hope to hear from you on the boards that you are doing just fine!

Geez I never thought of that!! THat's a great idea!! Thank you both so much! This has really helped calm me down! I was so bad I was even considering packing the scale to take with me to hotel the night before just to make sure I was ok LOL! I just have to stop stressing and know trust that this will happen!!

I was 270. Which is crazy b/c the day before I was 267. Darn this TOM

Lordservnt, I understand what you are saying. I am mentally prepared. I've been prepared for months now. I know that this is hard work. I'm just really frustrated that my hormones cause such a huge flux in my weight that its possible to have my surgery cancelled. I can see how me being accountable would be a concern, I totally understand that. I won't try to make justify maintaining my weight while waiting for a surgery date because it will all just sound like excuses. Picking it all up and moving forward at this point. I've vented and I feel much better

Thanks sassygirl06! Dorrie, my date is 3/6. I don't work harder when I'm angry. I just needed a minute to vent. I'm stressed but I won't let it keep me down. I've been on a liquid diet for 4 days and I lost 4 pounds. I will use a flush the day before to get the extra stuff out. I realize it may dehydrate me, but they will pump me full of IV fluids anyway, so I'm willing to take the risk I'm hoping he was just trying to scare me and wouldn't do a thing like cancel surgery because I'm 267 instead of 266 and Thanks for the encouragement. Sometimes you just need to vent, ya know. I'm all smiles now

My surgeon told me that 50-60% is good and anything more than that is icing on the cake. He said this is usally achieved within the first 3-4 months. Just an opinion. I don't have any stats or studies to back any of this up.

I love reading intelligent dialouges and discussions. I don't have any input to this thread as I'm still learning and I have not been sleeved, but it has been a real eye opener. I'm struggling at this moment with my pre-op diet and have had some of the same questions floating in my head that you have addressed. Thank you for sharing Crosswind.

Update!! My husband decided he wants to cook ribs Day 4 of my pre op diet LOL. Super I swear sometimes I want to strangle him.