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Nicole: Thanks for keeping me in your thoughts this week! I hope you are doing well. Let me know how it's going when you get a chance. Amber: I read your blog, and I can't believe they only gave you tylonol at one point. That sounds ridiculous!! I have the same problem with sipping and the gas bubble. It's really annoying! I hope your healing continues smoothly!!

I am home from the hospital today after being sleeved Monday! I was in there for 4 days and 3 nights. I am sore, not able to keep much liquid down yet, but making it. Feeling a little better today though. I hope everyone is doing well with their pre-op/post-op journeys! Good Luck

My total process took from July to December... I'm getting sleeved tomorrow!! I had a 3 month supervised diet for blue cross blue sheild insurance. Got the rest of the stuff done in the mean time. Then it took my insurance about 2 weeks to approve it after all of my stuff was turned in. Good Luck!!

I am getting my surgery at 8:30am tomorrow!! Good Luck with yours!

I so look forward to when I can eat solid food again! I get sleeved tomorrow, so I still have about a month of shakes and pureed food! Glad you were able to enjoy dinner with your family! Congrats!

I started this liquid pre-op diet last week on Nov. 28th. It has been one of the hardest things I have ever done! To go from not counting calories and eating whatever I want... to barely 800 calories of just protein shakes and yogurt, seems kinda like torture if you think about it. It is like taking a drug addict's drug and saying too bad you can't have it... but the catch with a food addict is... you have to have some, and you can't cut it out completely. So I just ate a baked chicken breast (I was about to lose my mind... my stomach was growling so bad)... this is something I would never have felt guilty about before. It is healthy and it is protein. I had a couple last week when I was first starting too. I wonder if my Doctor is gonna grill about that. The only other thing I've had is a spoon of peanut butter a couple of days last week. Does anybody know if the Dr. will ask you if you ate anything other than what is on the list? I think my liver will still be smaller, and I've lost 8 pounds in 8 days. IDK... I guess I'm just worried. Making it the best I can, but this is killer!!

Congrats! 22 pounds in 3 weeks is awesome

That's Awesome!!

Thank you for this post! It was really encouraging. I hope to be the best I can be, but don't strive to be perfect. That will just set me up to fail because no one is perfect. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012!

Thanks! I look for to those "skinny day" memories!! I'm trying my best not to cheat... and if I do its only been with protein. Good luck to both of you in your journey as well!

I would go out and buy a new Jacket or Dress that will make you look and feel fabulous! You deserve it for all the hard work you have done... Go enjoy that Christmas party and rock that new outfit!

It's like your taking the words right out of my mouth. Keep up the good work... I'm right there with you. Six more days of pre-op diet and then surgery!!

Wow! Above the norm... that's where we would all like to be! Congrats!