Tenshi

Very awesome! As a pre-sleever, I love looking at all of you already-so-successful sleevers and being encouraged every single day!

Good job! This kind of head hunger is one of my downfalls as well. I expect to have the same issue with feeling "hungry" in the evenings post-surgery, too. I'm glad to hear from someone who is overcoming it!

I will be sleeved on January 23rd, so if this is a longer term project, I would be happy to share my experiences as well.

LOL, I know how you feel. I was on pins and needles the whole time waiting to hear back.... I started to annoy my nutritionist and the insurance company, vowing to call or email them twice a week until I heard back. It worked. PS - Would that be Boba Fatt in your icon?

Carrie, that's my job, too! My nutritionist recommended four full weeks, actually, because the activity level of the job. (I told HR that I expected three weeks, but maybe four.)

I had suggested January Jumpstarts several posts back... it's gender neutral! I'm glad to see so many January sleevers coming out to say hello. As for me in the RNY vs. VSG argument.... I was very VERY against the malabsorption that goes along with RNY. My cousin's wife had RNY a few years ago, and is now so severely anemic, that any further surgical procedures she may need (for anything) in the future could kill her because she would bleed out so easily. No, thank you!

I am going through the same thing... my insurance approval came through about two weeks ago and I'm scheduled for January 23rd.... I gave myself "freedom" through Christmas (freedom meaning absolute food insanity, much along the lines of what I see above - eating dinner, then stopping at McDonald's anyway; ordering enough for two or three people, then sitting in my car and secret-eating it myself, etc). I have felt terrible, physically, doing this, but I also say to myself "Think how good you'll feel when you're being good, then!!" Like I need this crappy food binge addiction period to make the comparison between now and January 24th that much starker. Also, I'm very glad to see that I'm not the only one going through this... I, too, felt alone in this behavior!

Congrats! I gained, too, but was approved just last week (yay!!!). Mine is scheduled for January 23rd. I can not. freaking. WAIT!!!!

There's a 2012 specific thread now, peeps! See you over there!