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Glad it went well, have a safe trip back!

Sara- I was told NO rice. I hear some people can have it, some can't.. from what I've read around here, you have to go slow with food, because some food you just won't be able to eat. It sounds like rice is one of those foods for you. So don't eat rice, and you shouldn't have a problem Even without the fill, post-op/pre-1st fill the stomach can be swollen, and depending on the size of your band, it can be giving you restriction. Be careful with foods, if it feels like it's getting stuck I think the best thing to do is not to eat another bite and make a note that you can't handle that food well. (I know I sound like I know first hand, but this is just things I've read..I've read soooo many posts in a few different forums) Hope you feel better!!

Dog food sounds good! I have a big dog, and we get the 50lb bags, I can't even carry them!! I have to get fiance to empty them into a tub for me so I can scopp it out. If I lose 3 of those dog food bags.. wowser.

Doctor just called me and said my lab work shows I have a Urinary Tract Infection.. so they are taking me off the antibiotics I'm on and putting me on new ones. Very weird, I have absolutely NO symptoms!!! Luckily, my heart sank thinking they were going to tell me I have to post-pone the surgery.. but I just have to take the new stuff until the night before surgery. Now I wonder how long I've had it..

Hey I can't find the charm bracelet idea, could someone repost or show me where it is? (I looked back and don't see!) I need something special to do on this journey (well, besides lose weight). ------ Today I went out to our house being built. They were putting up the walls on April 11, when I was out of town for my pre-op, so I didn't get to go see. I went this morning before work to take pictures, and they've already put up the walls, roof, insulation, etc. It's so exciting!! The house looks big now. With just the foundation, I was getting nervous about how small it looked. I can't wait to move.. and hopefully have lost some weight by July that I can HELP move stuff. I carry enough weight right now.

Some people have it in the side, some people have it in the middle. My doctor said he will place it in the middle, because as I lose weight it will not protrude as much.

Good luck tomorrow banders I'm officially getting nervous now.. I think I'd be happy if they'd dope me up as soon as I walk in. I don't want to sit around waiting and having an anxiety attack.

I had a boyfriend once, whose mom thought I was too fat for him. I thought that was really interesting, considering she was about 5x size of me and had trouble walking due to the size of her legs. Luckily for me (at the time), he didn't seem to care or worry about what she thought.. Think it's weird how in-laws are like that now. My fiance's parents have never said anything, and think of me as their daughter already, but if they ever cared about it, my fiance never told me.

Congrats Mdrai!!!

I've done pretty good on my unofficial pre-op diet, and now official pre-op diet. Actually I did better on the unofficial. Regardless, on both of those I have not had a single regular coke!! I cut out Mt. Dew cold turkey. I have gotten sick a couple times from it, so I've become more of a coffee drinker.. and I don't like coffee, so normally I get a shot to get the headaches away and sip on it (no sugar in it!). Last weekend I had half a cup of OJ and a banana, and was throwing up all morning. I also had headaches, so I it's either caffein withdrawal or some reason they didn't sit well with me. Either way, now I can't eat either.. bah hum bug. I'm on a soup/sandwhich/salad diet. It seems vague to me, Subway can put anything on a bun and call it a sandwhich.. so I've tried to just think healthy. I did have some chinese yesterday (rice & chicken), and then fiance had a pizza for dinner and I took the very smallest slice on it and ate it. I don't even like pizza, but I was starving and nothing in the house looked filling without going overboard (Applesauce, string cheese, soups). Had my pre-op tests yesterday. Up at 4am, 3 hour drive down there to be there at 9am. Had to pay my $15,000 up front (woosh....... :phanvan ) the tests went fine.. bloodwork, EKG, chest x-ray, medical history. Nothing notable until I got to my doctor. I have a high white blood cell count, and they said it means I was just sick, I'm sick, or I'm getting sick. I haven't been sick, I'm not sick, and I don't feel like I'm getting sick..they said if I get sick before Monday the anesthesia won't do the surgery. Eeeek. I can't take meds right now either, so no Zicam or anything I better not get sick!! Doctor was awesome as always, they gave me a breathing lung strengthener. The nurse told me how to do it, then I did it and I did perfect, so that's good.. she told me to keep doing it until the surgery, and as soon as I'm awake they'll have me doing it every hour to keep me from getting pnemonia. I'm feeling pretty good about my decision for lap-band. Then they told me I'll have a catheter! Now I panic a little. I don't want a catheter That's one of those things up in my list of 'things I don't want in my entire life', up there with skydiving and enimas. I'm trying to come to grips with it, I will be asleep when they put it in, so it won't hurt, but it will be humiliating and now I feel like I need to 'dress it up' down there. My mom just had a hysterectomy and said the catheter was not an eventful part of anything and stop worrying. Today I've had coffee, water, and I'm eating my lunch of ham&cheese sandwhich. Saturday I start clear liquid pre-op diet. Not looking forward to that.. I still haven't started any good exercising, I don't know if I can till I lose some weight. I have such bad back and joint pains. I have 'The Bean' and do crunches and stretches and things like that on it. The nurse gave me medicine for 'hunger headaches', that is suppose to keep me from feeling sick from not eating. She said it's also good for caffein headaches, so I'm waiting for that Rx to be filled (today hopefully) and then I can stop drinking this coffee. Coffee makes my breath so disgusting afterward.. ick. My coworkers are anxious with me (maybe because they're going to have to cover me while I'm gone haha) and one of them is a friend of mine and she's very supportive about it. She's a tiny size 0 or 1, and very fashionable so I look at what she wears a lot and go "I can't wait to buy clothes like that". The doctor called this morning and said they want to put me on an antibiotic because of my white blood cells as a precaution, they don't want infection in my body when I go in there. I have to clean with anti-bacterial soap for my 'last shower' before surgery. I have hibiclens anyway I use sometimes, so got that covered. On my drive home, southern Alabama was having tornados.. which is where I was, but I don't know the area, so I didn't know what cities/counties I was going through.. I kept listening to the radio saying 'Tornado warning in blah blah and blah blah, crossing I-65' and I was on I-65, so I figured if I saw cars pulling off, I would too :guess Then, out of nowhere, rain was SO bad all 3 lanes came to a stop, everyone put on their emergency lights and you couldn't see the road. I was panicking, so I rolled down my window (in this flooding rain-got soaking wet) to put my head out to try to see the road.. didn't want to go off a bridge or hit someone. That was scary, luckily everyone did finally come to a complete stop to 'wait it out' I guess, so I got to stop and just wait. It did not last long at all, but that was the scariest 3 minutes I've had in a long time. My hands were shaking.. I probably won't post again until after the surgery. I'm not good with journals really.. I always like them in theory, but I don't like to sit and write about myself.. for myself.

I've done pretty good on my unofficial pre-op diet, and now official pre-op diet. Actually I did better on the unofficial. Regardless, on both of those I have not had a single regular coke!! I cut out Mt. Dew cold turkey. I have gotten sick a couple times from it, so I've become more of a coffee drinker.. and I don't like coffee, so normally I get a shot to get the headaches away and sip on it (no sugar in it!). Last weekend I had half a cup of OJ and a banana, and was throwing up all morning. I also had headaches, so I it's either caffein withdrawal or some reason they didn't sit well with me. Either way, now I can't eat either.. bah hum bug. I'm on a soup/sandwhich/salad diet. It seems vague to me, Subway can put anything on a bun and call it a sandwhich.. so I've tried to just think healthy. I did have some chinese yesterday (rice & chicken), and then fiance had a pizza for dinner and I took the very smallest slice on it and ate it. I don't even like pizza, but I was starving and nothing in the house looked filling without going overboard (Applesauce, string cheese, soups). Had my pre-op tests yesterday. Up at 4am, 3 hour drive down there to be there at 9am. Had to pay my $15,000 up front (woosh....... :phanvan ) the tests went fine.. bloodwork, EKG, chest x-ray, medical history. Nothing notable until I got to my doctor. I have a high white blood cell count, and they said it means I was just sick, I'm sick, or I'm getting sick. I haven't been sick, I'm not sick, and I don't feel like I'm getting sick..they said if I get sick before Monday the anesthesia won't do the surgery. Eeeek. I can't take meds right now either, so no Zicam or anything I better not get sick!! Doctor was awesome as always, they gave me a breathing lung strengthener. The nurse told me how to do it, then I did it and I did perfect, so that's good.. she told me to keep doing it until the surgery, and as soon as I'm awake they'll have me doing it every hour to keep me from getting pnemonia. I'm feeling pretty good about my decision for lap-band. Then they told me I'll have a catheter! Now I panic a little. I don't want a catheter That's one of those things up in my list of 'things I don't want in my entire life', up there with skydiving and enimas. I'm trying to come to grips with it, I will be asleep when they put it in, so it won't hurt, but it will be humiliating and now I feel like I need to 'dress it up' down there. My mom just had a hysterectomy and said the catheter was not an eventful part of anything and stop worrying. Today I've had coffee, water, and I'm eating my lunch of ham&cheese sandwhich. Saturday I start clear liquid pre-op diet. Not looking forward to that.. I still haven't started any good exercising, I don't know if I can till I lose some weight. I have such bad back and joint pains. I have 'The Bean' and do crunches and stretches and things like that on it. The nurse gave me medicine for 'hunger headaches', that is suppose to keep me from feeling sick from not eating. She said it's also good for caffein headaches, so I'm waiting for that Rx to be filled (today hopefully) and then I can stop drinking this coffee. Coffee makes my breath so disgusting afterward.. ick. My coworkers are anxious with me (maybe because they're going to have to cover me while I'm gone haha) and one of them is a friend of mine and she's very supportive about it. She's a tiny size 0 or 1, and very fashionable so I look at what she wears a lot and go "I can't wait to buy clothes like that". The doctor called this morning and said they want to put me on an antibiotic because of my white blood cells as a precaution, they don't want infection in my body when I go in there. I have to clean with anti-bacterial soap for my 'last shower' before surgery. I have hibiclens anyway I use sometimes, so got that covered. On my drive home, southern Alabama was having tornados.. which is where I was, but I don't know the area, so I didn't know what cities/counties I was going through.. I kept listening to the radio saying 'Tornado warning in blah blah and blah blah, crossing I-65' and I was on I-65, so I figured if I saw cars pulling off, I would too :guess Then, out of nowhere, rain was SO bad all 3 lanes came to a stop, everyone put on their emergency lights and you couldn't see the road. I was panicking, so I rolled down my window (in this flooding rain-got soaking wet) to put my head out to try to see the road.. didn't want to go off a bridge or hit someone. That was scary, luckily everyone did finally come to a complete stop to 'wait it out' I guess, so I got to stop and just wait. It did not last long at all, but that was the scariest 3 minutes I've had in a long time. My hands were shaking.. I probably won't post again until after the surgery. I'm not good with journals really.. I always like them in theory, but I don't like to sit and write about myself.. for myself.

My dr. told me carbonation could stretch out the pouch.

My meeting with the nutritionist yesterday gave me guidelines for what a 'serving' should be for me post-op. She said a 'carb serving' should be no more than 15 carbs on the label (which is really low..eek) and I think she compared it to the size of a baseball, but I don't think thats entirely right because one cracker can have like what, 50 carbs? She said no more than a dice worth of fat (don't remember other numbers off top of my head, just the pictures she associated it with), 3oz of meat which she said is like a deck of cards.

My doctor said to avoid using straws.. it adds a lot of air to your drinking and gets a lot of air in your stomach.

I'm going to print this out and keep it for when I'm not in pain from my weight. I just wanted to add, housework makes me red and break out in a sweat and pant. LOL

My 'moment' hit me when I weighed myself a couple months ago. I was a steady 250-270 in high school.. when I went to college, I put on my freshman 30.. and when I hit the scales at 300 in 2004, I freaked out. I did the Atkins diet, got down to 240. Then I 'cheated' and it all fell apart from there. Gained it all back. I knew I had. I had tried different diets since then, nothing significant happened. I stopped weighing myself. There was a death in the family and we were going through old old pictures. I knew my granny's mom was morbidly obese, bed ridden by 30 and died at 35 (from being 600+lbs), but never saw pics. I found a picture of her. Then I weighed myself. I was 333lbs at the time. I had gained about 60lbs in the year (so far). I just knew I needed help and I did not want to be bedridden by 30 because of my weight. I saw House too, the episode with the overweight woman who was 'fused' with her couch. It's a scary thought, and I feel I'm heading there!!! I was able to lose down to 327 by time I got to my doctor. I'm now down to 321.. still quite a ways to go, but I refuse to become that person And I have said it before, I agree with WASabubblebutt about paying for it. My insurance won't cover it. But I was getting it done, no matter WHAT. I was prepared to sell my car, and some other things I knew I could get money for. That would have paid for it. I ended up getting funding from family, but if that had not happened I would have had no problem downsizing my life. I'd rather live poor for longer, than have fancy taste and die in my 30's.

My doctor suggests drinking liquid in the morning if I feel too tight, it helps loosen it up. Maybe because you're having so many drinks throughout the day (and standing up) it makes you too loose?

I got Centrum's Citrus Cherry chewable multi-vitamins. They're pretty good. Then I saw it says "+50", so it's for people over 50! (This is not the first time I've done this in the vitamin world), so I went to a vitamin shop and got another one. The different is, the normal one has more % of stuff, and the +50 doesn't have iron in it. So, I tried the new one, it was pretty nasty..tasted very vitamin-icky. The doctor said yesterday we can take 1 normal adult or 2 childrens. I use to love Flintstone's vitamins, so I'm just going to go get a bottle of that and take 2 a day. ----- Just checked bariatriceating.com again, they now have a 'shipped' status. Tracking shows it will be shipped today. Little miffed, delivery isn't scheduled until next week. They could have at least sent it faster on their dime to make up for losing my order. I don't plan on using them again Anyone know of another place that is more reliable?

Good luck!

Doctor just called, he's concerned about my elivated white blood count.. I'm still not sick though! He said he's putting me on antibiotics before surgery just in case. Fingers crossed.... Tater-Glad it wasn't just me, I got their website from recommendations here, and I figured it was just my dumb luck my order got lost or something. Going to call them today and see what's going on. (It says you should get it in 5-7 days...) ---- Just called bariatriceating.com... the guy was nice, said 'Hm... I don't know why there's no tracking, let me go find out and call you back' :cry Hope I can get this soon!

I ordered from Bariatriceating.com on April 1, and still have not received it. And when I check 'order status' on the website, it is blank. I e-mailed them (they were closed when I tried calling), and 2 days now and no response. Anyone else have a problem with their delivery time? I want my matrix orange&cream!! I was hoping to try some things I bought before the surgery so I knew what would be good, but this week is wearing thin...

LOL... I'm sure they'd get a kick out of a bow.. And I found out today no nip rings.. Not surprised and had planned on taking them out anyway. Don't get nervous yet, lets all take a big glass of chill (or.. water.. we can ALL have water right???) and see how we feel a week from today

LOL. See, I'm worrying now that I need to make it all pretty and maybe put a bow down there. I hate my thighs too, I don't even let my fiance see or touch my thighs.. I don't want people looking at me when I'm not conscious, or talking about my nether regions.. I get paranoid about things like that. I'm still not nervous really about the surgery, just a tinge when they push and make me sign all these forms saying I understand I can die from the risks of surgery that come with any surgery. I do realize, I'm trying to push that to the back of my brain. I don't want to go in panic-y, so I wish it wouldn't keep being brought back up. I'm going through that phase in my life, so much is coming up/happening, I don't want to die anytime soon. Even before thinking about this surgery, I guess about 6 months ago I started having this feeling that.. so much is going great in my life, I'm so happy... I would hate to die and miss out on all this.. and then surgery. I should stop rambling.. Monday needs to come quicker so I can get on the other side of this and quit thinking about it. Oh forgot to mention (I'm so preoccupied), they also gave me a breathing thing, for breathing exercises.. suppose to toughen up the lungs against pnemonia.. and.. they said my white blood count is higher than usual white blood cells. She asked if I was sick, or had been sick.. I said no and no, so she said it might mean I'm getting sick, and if I get sick I can't get the surgery. So now I'm swearing to my body, that it better NOT get sick right now!!!!!

Very inspiring post. Thank you for sharing

Margi- Yes, I feel fortunate about the diet they have me on, after hearing what some people have to go through. I really can't imagine. I tried liquid diet once for dieting, and didn't make it 24 hours. I have to do it Saturday&Sunday and that's going to be hard enough.. Good luck, stay strong!! We're almost there! :clap2: