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My Surgeon and my Dietician want me completely off of caffeine by the time of surgery - I am probably 3 months out from surgery - and I am trying to wean myself off already..... I typically have 2 cups of coffee and a diet soda or regular soda every day.... without the coffee I am blinded by the headaches by 11am and having the soda is not touching the headaches at all............ how are others dealing with loss of caffeine or did your doctors not require that........?

I have not been banded yet but am in the lead up now.... and I have this question for you about getting back on track....... you, and all of us on here, are going through a drastic step for our health (surgery for weight loss is drastic) and as such the thought of putting the weight back on to me would be terrifying. You have made a lifelong committment to being healthy and doing so will involve some ups and down.......... and I agree.... it sucks to be off course but the only way to get there is to want it, and you do want it because you made the decision to committ to the surgery.... now be strong, set down the clicker or the mouse and go for a walk and havea Protein shake not a burger....... I know you can do it.......

How about strawberries or bananas or other fruit and yogurt......?......... blended together to form mushy texture and then chilled in the freezer to be ice cream like..?

Does your mom know you had the surgery, or did you keep it from her...?... if she knows than she should understand.... my wifes aunt used to say I needed to lose weight so I would be around for a long time (she was in her late 90's so we would just smile and nod) but when we went out to eat at an all you can eat cafeteria she was all the time saying 'You need to eat more"... again we would just smile and nod at her

Hello to all -- I am new to these forums but not new to the discussion forum process. I am in the run up stages for lap band surgery and a little nervous but am following the rules as I kow them so far..... the funniest one to me is the need to lose weight before the surgery.. if it was that easy I would not need the surgery, but so far have dropped about 15 lbs in about 2 weeks so I am on my way...... look forward to chatting

Nice to see another new face..... good luck..... you can do it... I have literally been gaining weight since I started my job 22 years ago.... about almost 200 lbs from when I started and now it needs to go away..........