Courtney Minor

thank you both very much!

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY AND IM 4 DAYS POST OP. GAS PAIN IS GONE. REALLY DONT HAVE ANY PAIN EXCEPT WHERE THE ACTUAL SURGERY PART. IM NOT HUNGRY AT ALL BUT WHEN I SMELL food I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO CONTAIN A BEAST IN ITS CAGE. I GUESS THATS MY ADDICTION IM FIGHTING TO KEEP BACK. I ONLY DRINK WONTON broth, Water, AND POWERAID ZERO. I TRIED THE sugar free JELLY BUT IT HURT SO IM GOING TO HOLD OFF ON THAT FOR ANOTHER WEEK. I WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF MY SURGERY... VERY SCARY. I WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE ELSE HAS? MY MOTHER SAID SHE HAD WOKEN UP IN THE MIDDLE OF SURGERY BEFORE (NOT LAP BAND) AND SAID ITS ACTULLY COMMON. THE HARDEST PART FOR ME THESE PAST COUPLE DAYS IS I CANT HOLD MY 6MONTH OLD AND ITS BEEN MAKING ME VERY SAD. LAST NIGHT MY HUSBAND SAT IN FRONT OF MY ADN HELD HIM TO MY FACE SO I COULD KISS HIM AND LOVE ON HIM AND HE WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE MY I WAS CRYING LIKE A BABY. I MISSED THE SMELL OF HIM. AND THE OTHER HARD PART HAS BEEN sleeping. IM A TOSSER WEHN I sleep AND EVERYTIME I EVEN MOVE SLIGHTLY I WAKE UP SO I CANT SLEEP MORE THEN AND HOUR AND IM UP.

this was very inspiring to me and im so happy your doing well. im 4 days into my pre-op liquid only diet and im having a very hard time. im not sure if im realizing i am a true food adict or that i really just need something solid. but anyways great job and congrats!!!! good luck!

I AM!!!! they only put you on one week pre-op diet? lucky! i started the pre op diet on the 10th

i get banded on the 25th, and yes i have gone back and forth! A LOT!!! I keep telling myself to just do it!! it will all be worth it in the end.

UPDATE - this morning i woke up and made another shake and threw it up soooooo my fiance drove to the nearest tropical smoothie (45 mins away) spent $80 and filled our freezer with smoothies... all made with splenda and whey. i drank half a one already and im feel SO SOSOSOSOSOS much better.

well remeber im not banded yet. im only on the pre-op diet. i wish there was a way i could go to a store and test differnt protien shakes lol... i cant afford to buy too many to try...

omg thank you for using the un flavored unjury i got it and i had it in trop50 orange juice yesterday morning.... but i had to thin it out A LOT how is it in other things???

im trying too. i sip water because if i try to drink too much i gag... i truly feel like im coming off hard drugs... i was just talking to some one on another site and they recomended the special k protien water mixes for inbetween the shakes... it weird, i dont have any "craving" for food, im just hungry. i really dont want to screw anything up.. especially since im self pay and have been saving for this for years. im so glad to have this site and people like you to talk to.. i have a great support system at home but they dont truly understand, my fiance is a twig and eats 3 times more then i ever have. but hes trying so hard to help to the point that toinight he drank a protien shake with me... i found out he gorged on food right before he came home lol. but hes trying. i started crying because he so sweet and so .... simple lol but back to IM HUNGRY!!! lol i looked at a can of tuna is low cal, hiigh protien, so monday im going to call the doctors office and ask if maybe i can have one can a night or somthing... ive seen a few people on here say they would have two eggs or a lean steak at night... shoot ill even settle for raw spinach. i just need something solid that wont make me throw up.

this is so much harder then i thought....... im so hungry. and the protien shakes make me gag so bad ive thrown them up 3 times.... i have such a headach becasue i know im not getting all the calories and protien i should... this sucks...

YES YOU CAN!!!!! congrats that wonderful!!!!! i was just telling my girlfriend about how im not going to buy any clothes at all until they are falling off me!

what state do you live in?

i know EXACTLY how you feel. my surgery is 10-25-2013 so im right behnd you. it took a few weeks after setting my surgery date to open up about it family and friends. when i finally did it was over dinner (big mistake) my grandma, who is a very important person in my life and i use to talk to daily, was telling me how she thinks im going to fail at it and stadrted pointing out my plate i was eating at the moment.... it broke my heart but made me more motivated to do this right and be healthy. if i were you i would seriously consider finding someone else to be there for you after surgery.... you do not need to deal with that kind of negativity when you are trying to heal.

PROTIEN SHAKES and i knew it would be hard going from my normal eating to shakes only so i think i already feel the new me taking over even before the lapband... my body might not have changed yet, and my stomach isnt banded but my mind is ... or at least starting.

thank you EVERYONE for your response! i didnt even eat alot and i was not even happy i did it. like someone else wrote, im just over it. and yes you are right the fat person is dyeing and the new me is being born! also like someone else wrote i kinda have started my pre-op diet 2 weeks ago, becasue i HATE