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Oh I am soooo glad that you are doing better now!!! That must of been soooo scary!! Glad everything is alright for you!! Deanna

Thank you....I needed to hear all of that. That made me feel better and of course to cry AGAIN!! You guys are awesome!! I hope to be able to make someone feel better one day just like you did me!! Deanna

You look so good Jesse...your arms look soooo muscular..GREAT JOB...I want to be slim trim and working out just like you ...What an inspiration!!!!

hmm..thats weird because my doctor said that is is quite possible to throw up....and if we get the flu to call right away so they can give me a unfill in case I do throw up. Thats weird...wish doctors would make up their cotton pickin minds.

GOOD JOB!!! Keep thinking happy thoughts and that you can do it..BECAUSE in reality we have ALL done it over and over again...we just undo it by eating way too much again and stopping our exercise..but this time....we wont be able to!!! YOU GO!! Lets make a law, NO MORE PIZZA DELIVERY PEOPLE ALLOWED!!! ANYWHERE!!

I actually didnt have time to do that or I am sure I would have. I went to surgeon and same day got my surgery date for two weeks later so I had to start on the pre op diet the VERY NEXT DAY!!! BUT, I am sure I would have been eating EVERYTHING in sight if I would of had time too!!! I am sort of in a morning phase of food right now... Like...hmmm wonder if everyone else will be healthy and not me because they are shoving food in their mouth and I wont be able to....and then reality sets in..NO I will be the healthy happy one...just SMALLER!!!:heh:

Well, I have made it through the two week pre op diet without eating anything that wasnt on my list from the dietician so I feel really good about that. I am stopping my drinking 15 minutes before meals and for a hour after meals so I feel pretty good about that. I am taking small bites and chewing chewing chewing so I feel good about that! BUT, I am freaking out at the thought of surgery in two days and all of the emotions that come along with that. I have to say that I am not really craving any foods but being on the low carb diet I am understanding why I am not craving food all the time. I am just in the same boat as all the "I AM SO FREAKING NERVOUS" cuz its almost here and I hope I dont die...dont have complications....dont bleed....dont have lots of PB...dont have lots of sliming...dont dont dont dont......OK..WOW..I feel a little better now...thanks all for listening...Deanna

Julie and Autumn, THANK YOU for your words of encouraement and support!! You both said exactly what I needed to hear today!! What a great place for a push in the right direction. I hope that one day I can say just the right words to someone else to ease the fright as you two have done for me today..AGAIN, THANK YOU!!!

Being that I am self pay I am going to stay!! Why not? Although I might change my mind, for now I am thinking of getting my moneys worth!:nervous

Call your doctor and see if they can prescribe something for the nausea so you dont throw up. I know my doctor told me they are going to be sending me home with suppositories so I dont throw up.

I was actually thinking that thought through with DH also, and I think if I had to do shakes three times a day I would go MAD!!! Maybe for three days I could do it BUT not two weeks. My surgeon is linked with my dietician as well as the exercise physiologist. Its a complete group of people there to help you but they are all working together. Which I like.

Wow, feel kinda lucky in a sense. I can have 9-11 oz protein.. low fat protein that is white chicken meat, low fat fish, ff cottage cheese, ff cheese, 2 servings of fruit and 2 plus servings of low carb veggies. I thought I was starving but I think the shakes would make me feel more hungry! Way to go all of us April bandsters.... keep up the good work we can do it...we are winners!!!

I am on my 2 week pre op diet and I am changing my eating habits now. I chew every bite 25 to 30 times. Eat VERY slowly. And I stop drinking 15 minutes before I eat and wait an hour after I eat to start drinking again.

Hi Good Luck in your endevours!!!

HI Kris...I am set up for the 19th ...we are really close to the same dates. Good Luck!!

GOOD LUCK!!!! I am in countdown until banding day!!

Looks like this thread died and then came back to life again in 2007...I am SOOO glad...here I am in Pocatello, getting banded in Idaho Falls on the 19th of April...not many Idahoans out there we need to stick together.. would love to chat with some of you.

oh my phentermine..i took that and it helped the first week and THEN I was fast back on my EAT EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT NAILED DOWN!! LOL....:hungry: We can do this!!! I know we can!!

Hi All, I was reading a thread about some peoples pre op diet just being liquid. I have a two week pre op diet consisting of 9-11 oz of protein ( they tell you which protein..very very low fat), two servings of fruit and at least two servings of veggies a day! I started that yesterday and I thought I was gonna die by about three oclock!!! :faint: After I got through the mid afternoon phase I was doing okay. Hope today is ok...11 oz of protein...I wonder if I will waste away before surgery..LOL:biggrin1: I must admit though, it felt nice going to bed NOT stuffed.:hungry:

WOW Edie...you have done SOOOO great and good job...it is nice when family says nice things..it makes it feel so much better to know that someone notices you and the things you are doing...hmmm how much protein does optifast have in it?

Just thought I would add my disgust at the gluttony of this country...seems like every time you turn around there is some holiday that HAS to be celebrated and WITH FOOD!! Heres an idea..maybe if we all got together with our families at the park and played football or volleyball INSTEAD of sitting to STUFF OUR FACES UNTIL WE CANT BREATHE, this country wouldnt be in the obesity epidemic that it is!! I dont know..just something I thought of but seems like it could be true. :huytsao

We are going fishing on Easter. No food issues here for me. :hungry: :clap2:

I agree with the lying..its only your business. The only people who know are my parents, dh parents and my two kids. Why does anyone else need to know? I dont feel like dealing with the food police and answering tons of questions about it RIGHT NOW. I will tell others when I am ready for them to know and only then. Thats my .02! I agree with whoever said people can be so cruel and I also agree that lots of people will be disappointed when I am not the biggest in the room and NOW THEY ARE!!:rolleyes :guess

I went for my psyc evaluation and three hour lap band class and saw the surgeon today and surgery is set for 4/19. It seems like I was just at the free seminar yesterday, but it was really 3/10. Today I made out a check to the surgeon for 3,725.00:faint: and I start my two week liver shrinking diet tomorrow. SO ALOT FOR ONE DAY!! I am feeling strange now about all of this, I think it is just that is moved so FAST today that I am not fully adjusted yet that this is becoming a reality. So, tomorrow I have to go shopping and get all the protein items and veggies to eat for the next two weeks. BTW, my last supper was pizza and you know what, I didn't even feel like eating more than two slices!!! Weirdo!! I must be getting:sick ..LOL...anyways I am joining you lapsters this month!!:clap2:

Thank you to both of you for replying to me...There are so many new people and such that I know it can get to be a pain to "talk" to everyone.