Pollyanna12

I am pre-op but I have started getting ready even though my surgery isn't until March 20th. My thought would be to go onto liquids for a week or so, or even go to 1 meal protein shake then 2 then hit a few days all liquids. Then slowly start foods again? Just a thought. It is hard to get re-motivated for anything but man o man you lost 87 pounds!! That is awesome!!!! I can't wait to be able to say that!!! Come on bandsters, let's cheer this girl on....and believe me I was never thin enough to be a cheerleader!! Keep us posted on how youu are doing!

I am scheduled for lapband surgery next month. I am morbidly obese now, and have been most of my adult life. Though there was about 10 minutes in my 20's when I got down to 180# and maintained for 5 years (OK, it was a touch longer than 10 minutes). During that entire 5 years, I thought I was HUGE. In fact, looking back I was more self-conscious about being big then, than I am now at almost 360#. How nutty is that? I've often wondered if this dysmorphia is the alter-ego of how anorexics view themselves? Would love to know of therapies, counseling approaches that would work for this.