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i'm from california and i've had fun in my home state! everyone should check out our national parks (if that is what you like to do) Sequoia National Forest. not as packed as Yosemite, but it is soooo beautiful! i spent 3 weeks touring the east coast and i loved it! i also traveled to DC but didn't have nowhere near as fun as i did in NY. santa fe, new mexico/arizona is beautiful in its own way. we just spent a week there last year. i really awnt to visit the south. my best friend is getting married soon and as his maid of honor, we're all flying out to New Orleans to visit his fiance's fam. yay! i think where i would LOVE to travel would be Montana. sounds so random, but ever since i watched that movie "River Runs Through It" i have wanted to go there since i was a girl! i love fishing, love nature, and love being in the outdoors. i would love to go rent a cabin and enjoy the scenery and the fishing. my husband and i would have a blast!

i agree! my husband has been not wanting to eat much because he feels bad. i told him that i am fine, and that i am way better now than i was during the first 3 days. we have baseball players living with us and they just arrived, so tonight i am making my husband and his friends a very nice meal!

@@mentalistfan i would agree that banders typically look healthier than the others. i know people who have had other surgeries and lost too much weight way too soon. they don't look healthy. i know each case is different; i'm just speaking from what i have seen and what my experience is with fam/friends

thank you for posting this! i have been battling this as well. i am scheduled for surgery in 10 days, but i worry about what people will say or think. i also feel that they will think that i took "the easy way out". i don't know what is easy about a liquid diet and changing mentally/emotionally! this is harder work than most who only count calories.

Aw! Thank you! I am hanging in there. You guys were right. After Day 4, the physical part gets easier. my stomach is no longer waking me up at all hours of the night. now it has become more of an emotional, mental thing. i cheated last night by having some garlic pretzels. i feel like a failure. i weighed myself and have lost 4 pounds since friday. i haven't been drinking the Protein shakes but have been drinking strictly Water (a gallon a day). my surgeon also told me that i can have egg whites!

@@sleepingarby thank you for this advice! i have been reading around and i am starting to see that there are plateaus throughout the journey. part of the reason that i wanted the band was because the weight comes off slower, and seems healthier for me (mentally). i will continue to read post-op forums. @@kimk1999 you and i are in the same boat. i was feeling guilty for not telling the world, but i need to realize that i don't belong to the world. i belong to myself, and my maker. it is up to me to decide on who i will tell, so i told the ones that "need" to know. everyone at work sees that i'm on a liquid diet and i stated that it is for health reasons because obviously i'm overweight.

yeah!!! countdown! i am on Day 5 of Pre-Op. i haven't been drinking my protein shakes that much but am drinking loads of water and that is keeping me going. you guys were right. after day 4 it does get better. my doc told me that i can have egg whites, so that's what is for lunch! i've lost 4 pounds since friday.

I'll have to read how you're doing. I travel quite a bit and wonder how that would impact my banding?

I'm also on all liquids for 2 weeks. THIS SUCKS!!! I've been chewing on the same piece of gum for HOURS.Lol I'm so happy I have 3 days of liquids. Lucky!!! I feel like I haven't lost any weight. I'm following directions, except today I had a few pieces of pork rinds. That can't be that bad because they are absolutely zero carbs. My boss looked at me today and could tell that I'm feeling weak. He asked if I was ok, and I told him yes. He also asked what's wrong. I told him I'm on a new diet for the next few weeks, and he told me that he sees me weak and not as energetic, and that it is impacting my work ethic. I wish my doctor would allow me to at least have one small high Protein meal to get some more energy.

@@prettyandbrwn I totally feel you on this one! I turn 31 in a few days and I have been overweight my entire life. I've yo-yo'd and the most success I found was the no carb diet, but I hated the way that it made me feel. I put on all of the 70 lbs I lost on it, and probably multiplied it. Just like you said, I didn't want to wait until my life passed me by to do this. I already feel like I've lost out on years being overweight and morbidly obese. I want to have a healthy life and I know that the lap band will be a tool in this journey. I have to keep telling myself that this is the perfect moment to make this perfect decision.

The lowest I've ever been was 230. My surgeon said he'd like to see me get to 200, but to me, that STILL seems like too much. The BMI calculator said that 18.5–24.9 would be the BMI for my height (I'm 5'11") and that my ideal weight would be anywhere between 133-179. I have to understand that I'm a big girl, and I'll always be a big girl, but that doesn't mean that I have to be unhealthy.

I was at Starbucks years ago when I was on a low carb diet and had lost LOTS of weight (at least for me I was skinny). I was sitting next to a window and then I took off my sweatshirt because I was hot. An old man across from me said, "You know what is a natural cause of making someone so warm? Excess weight."

I'm also on all liquids for 2 weeks. THIS SUCKS!!! I've been chewing on the same piece of gum for HOURS. I want that candy they had on Charlie and the chocolate Factory, where different flavors of gum resemble different plates of food. Lol

They haven't given me a time yet! I feel off the wagon last night. I had regular soup!! But I paid for it. I had the runs all night. Funny how our bodies will tell us when it is not used to something, or that something is wrong. "splurged" last night and had egg whites. It really filled me up and gave me the boost that I needed. I figured that they didn't have any carbs, so it wasn't a big deal (at least I hope).

@@DogLover88 thank you for your honesty and transparency. i'm realizing that i am not the only one in this battle, and that many others have gone through this journey already. i'm so thankful i found this site; had i not, i probably would have chickened out on this process or ordered everything on the menu at McDonald's. Lol. i love your screen name! i'm also a dog lover! look at my baby in my profile pic! another reason i want my health back is so that i can enjoy my life with my furry babies. we don't have kids yet, so my babies are my pups. a wake-up call in my life was when i took my dogs on a hike up to the oaks preserve. the dogs LOVED IT, but my body hated it. i thought to myself, "how much of life am i missing out on because of this?"

Great advice! I am going to go and get Gas-X and a body pillow so that I have it ready for post-op! @@kayzoog Your blog has helped SO MUCH!

@@kimk1999 LOL! it's hell, right?! well, i am happy to say that today is my 4th day in my preop diet and i feel way better than i did the first day or two. i feel that the nights are the worst!!! i try to go to sleep early so that i don't have to deal with the hunger pains. today i am feeling more energy, and after having 2 egg whites yesterday, i was STUFFED! i couldn't believe i was full off of 2 egg whites. it gave me a boost of energy and i can actually see some hope in me not losing my mind over these next 10 days! LOL

@@ddsweighin228 @@chanel1216 YAY! We are all 4/11 bandsters! What time do you guys have to be at the hospital that day? Looks like I'm the first one my doc is doing that day because I have to be there by 5:30 AM

My surgeon never mentioned anything about me having to lose weight. All he stressed was that it would be safer for me to have my liver smaller so that he could maneuver around during surgery.

Screw this BS! Today I fainted and hit my head. I'm having such a hard time. So shaky, numb, and to top it all off--I fainted. I know that the purpose of this is to shrink the liver, but I'm really struggling. I am boiling an egg and am going to eat the egg whites. I've read about people who cheat on this by going all out. I'm hoping that eating boiled eggs will not make or break whether or not I have a surgery. Gonna call my doc tomorrow.

Yay!

Spoke too soon. Nights are the worst. This liquid diet has me so depressed. I'd do anything to be able to even have a raw carrot.

Love you all! You guys give me strength and I feel I've gained a family! I agree that the majority of this is a reality shock, which made the first day so depressing. Today I'm better than I was yesterday, and I hope that each day I grow stronger! I feel that fasting is helping me focus my mind of all the junk I've cluttered it with. We are moving May 1st, so today I did a lot of packing and cleaning. I felt like Wonder Woman, and wondered how I could be so energetic off of Water and Protein lol

Woo hoo! I have 13 days more and it feels like it's sooooo far away!