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It's insane how fast this last part goes Some days (not when you are hungry then it seems like it last forever) Good Luck Congrads on being a Lucky Loser

Exciting!?!?!? are you Excited??? Let us know how it goes!!!

Welcome Skywalk64!!!! this is a awesome place to gather information, there is also some stuff on youtube if your interested in seeing what you get to go thru in terms of the actual surgery there is a blogger on there called thebandinme and it's pretty awesome she got to take the camera with her all the way up to the surgery and afterwards (not in the surgery) but it's really a first person perspective on what happens if you have any questions feel free to ask everyone here is really nice

your puppy is cute! I know the hunger is the worse but I hear it gets better I'm just counting the days till I can not feel hungry anymore, are you staying on track I've started having small little things of salt just salt it's kinda gross but really sad lol oh well could be worse I could be eating actually food. Anyways super excited for you, how long do you have stay at the hospital I have to stay over one night. Hope your having a good day and not to hungry I had some cavitys fixed today so I spent half the day with my face numb and when all you can do is drink your food it's pretty hilarious and really messy. ha ha

Thanks guys the butterflys are still there and still pretty hungry but I'm feeling a little better knowing that there are others out there that felt like running

I'm on the max Protein one that's vanilla, chocolate and Cookies and cream it's pretty good as far as the others i've tried I didn't like the advantedge strawberry one it was just to thin but i like mixing them with other juices as for the liquid coming out I called the nurse at my surgeons office she told me to buy knox gelaton and mix it with 1/4 cup warm Water (mix really well) and then drink it and that should help I just did it a few minutes ago it was horrid to drink so it better help the other part other than that I'm taking immodium too because at work it's impossible to get away long enough besides I have so much gas and it is amplified in the bathroom it's just embarassing so I don't wanna go there! I know it's a natural thing but what's happening to me is not natural (I'll leave it at that) I ordered some free samples from Proteinex online from the actual manuf. they are pre-digested protein haven't tried them yet but they are only 2 table spoons and have 18 grams so i figure i'll save them till after the surgery when I really don't wanna drink alot I can at least get those down and not the whole think Protein shakes that i'm drinking now at least for awhile. but we'll see good luck to you all I'm on day 7 of 14 for my diet and this is really hard i'm hoping to just make it through the next day living day to day and trying not to think about how hungry you are or your stomach rumbling (not from hunger) is just getting old.....

I tried mixing the protein powder with other liquids than just water like orange juice and apple juice it taste so much better next I'm gonna put some banana flavoring in my chocolate one or maybe buy some propel strawberry water and mix that with chocolate that would be good too variety is the spice of life but for banders it's EVERYTHING

This may be old news to some of you but it's AMAZING to me instead of mixing my protein shakes with water I'm using the orange and apple juice I'm allowed and mixing my vanilla flavored protein drinks with them and they are SOOOOOO much more easy to get down I enjoy drinking them alot more now This is all thanks to my soon to be cousin-in-law who had the surgery a year ago and I was emailing telling her that the shakes taste horrid!

Hey I was denied the lap band 3 times by my insurance and once they basically told me I've exausted my options so I appealled and some great letters from family and all the doctors I've seen got me approved my surgery date is now March 24th 2009 and I'm on day 5 of my clear liquid diet already lost a few pounds but still pretty hungry can't wait to get the band! Don't give up girl alot of insurances will deny you just to see if you will give up just keep calling them till they know you by name!

I'm on day 4 and it is HARD whoever thinks this is the easy way to weight loss should try it because it's not, i had a little encouragement yesterday I stepped on the scale (fully clothed mind you) and already lost 11 lbs but who knows where those came from lol i'm trying to get all my fluids in and PROTEIN FIRST as the golden rule but the protein shakes are getting harder and harder to put down as they become my only food source gotta keep mixing it up! don't get stuck in a rut! those are just some of the things I keep telling myself good luck girls I'm starving along with you!!!!

That girl in the window is you "the inside you" the one thats healthy and feels great! I can't wait to join you on the band journey I'm counting down the days only 11 more days till surgery and I can't wait!!! I'm so ready to start my new life and see the window me in just a regular mirror! How long before you go back to work/school? I took off a week do you think that will be enough you said you feel good now I hope I have to same recovery time! :w00t:

Thats awesome I'm sure your surgery will go awesome if you need to see yourself skinny go by one of those weird windows with a bar splitting it and stand in front of the bar a few feet back....you'll look 1/2 your size...this use to depress me untill I got my surgery date for March 24th now it's just a goal!!! Good Luck let us all know how you do!!!! :thumbup:

So I'm only on my first day of 14 for my preop liquid diet I already feel as though I'm going just collapse from exaustion I keep readying everyones post to feel better and know that eventually I will not be starving.... I have a dinner for work tomorrow night so we will see how that goes I'm going in hoping not to cheat at all but if I do I wanna make good decisions like steamed veggies and chicken atleast go with as less amount of failure as I can right? I just so hungry right now.... :thumbup:

Hi Everyone, My surgery is set for March 24th!!!! I'm late in March but so looking forward to it, not so much looking forward to the needles that are involved but I can deal. I hope everyone thats gone is so far is doing well and hope everyone that has to do the liquid diet with me does well, I'm a little worried about trying to to cheat but I think I will do okay my diet starts tuesday and tomorrow I'm clearing out the food in my room and in my apartment so I'm not tempted and I already have some pretty tasty protein shakes so I don't see this being to awful of course ask me in a week and we'll see. I was wondering if anyone had any secrets to kill the hunger cravings?

Does anyone know what all the Pre-op test are?

Hi Everyone I have a strange question or situation to ask about.... I'm a 24 year old morbidly obese female, I'm trying to get back into having sex after a 3 year dry spell... the guy I'm with is great only one this sex is just not enjoyable or as fun as I think it is for others. It's okay or I describe it as "eh" see the thing is it's not the guy he's doing everything to make it great for me but it's just not It's like my whole sex drive has gone straight out the window although I want to have enjoyable fun sex....I try and nothing happens. Does anyone else have this problem I feel like I'm a weirdo because I don't enjoy sex

My Insruance BCBS requires me to be morbidly obese for 3 years....I'm recently become morbidly obese (last year) and they tell me that the fact that I was obese for more than 3 years is not enough I have to be deathly obese for 3 years before they will consider covering the surgery.... Have to love insurances they want your health to get worse before they will pay for it to get better..jackasses

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Is there any habit that you wished you would have broke pre-band?

I was wondering if anyone knew beforehand that they had sleep apnea. I'm wondering because I'm single and therefore sleep alone so I'm not really sure if I snore or stop breathing while I'm sleeping. I thought about setting up a camera but the longest my digital camera's thing will run is like 15 minutes so that doesn't really work. I have most the other symptoms like tired all the time and wake up sweating, waking up at night and so on. Just thought I would get everyone's thoughts on this to see if anyone knew they had sleep apnea beforehand?

My Appt for a Sleep Study is in Two weeks from today I get to go on the 30th which kinda is stinky because my long day is friday and of course it's Halloween but it should help for the "dead" look I'm going for since I was gonna be a vampire this year! ha ha

Thanks everyone I have a appt with my PCP so I can get a referal for a sleep study....the more research i do on SA the more I think it's possible that i have it. I'll keep you updated thanks again for the advice!

I need to gain weight before I get weighed tomorrow I'm only 5lbs from having a BMI of 40 and therefore insurance approval please any advice helps I've been eating a crap ton of bread today any other suggestions?

Thanks for all your answers and I would love to follow some of your advice :thumbup: I'm working on it lol. I think I'm going to talk to my PCP sometime next week and see if I can't get him to get me a order for a sleep study. Since I've been denied for insurance because I haven't been tested for sleep apnea amoung other things but my insurance pays for it so why not? Thanks everyone!

I made it 40.8 i was wearing boots and a sweatshirt and I'm sure that added more. Thanks for all your advice!!!