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Wow! I don't have a scale so will see when I get to the hospital. Too bad I can't just stick to this diet and lose 100+ pounds! But alas, I don't have it in me. So surgery it is!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8iwBM_YB1sE

Hello from Texas! I am having mine done here but considered Mexico, too. Just be sure you have a good option for followup care once you are back home! Keep us posted and welcome!

Too funny ! I don't give a crap medicine! Lol! I love the golden ticket idea. Reminds me of Polar Express. We'll be feeling awesome by the holidays! Yay us!

Oh... And only 4 more work days!

Hi! I know! One week! :-/ This liquid diet is the pits but my body seems to be getting used to it. I just want this over with! Let's get this show on the road! Let's keep in touch pre and post! My surgery is in San Antonio. I am 56.

I finished all those requirements and am now on the pre op diet for surgery next week. At the time, i thought I would go crazy waiting between all the appts and tests! Then my lab work showed extreme anemia so I had to wait a month while supplements raised my iron level. More waiting! But looking back now, it seems like it has gotten here so fast! Now I am struggling with doubt... Is this the right move? But I know in my heart it is my best option. I am informed, prepared, and I have a great doctor. So take it one step at a time. It really will be your time in the blink of an eye! God bless us all and congratulations!

Been on my all liquid pre-op since 8/27. I cheated on day 4. I am accustomed to it now and no longer hungry as long as I get enough protein in. It really does get better.

Hi sweetcin. I live in the Houston area but am having my surgery in San Antonio where I work. (I commute on weekends. Love this economic recovery!) Where is your surgery? My date is 9/10.

To be able to sit cross legged on the floor and not look like a floundering beached whale when I get up.

7 days, 8 hours, and 19 minutes to go until d-day....or maybe I should say s-day!

I just want to add one thing: I had been having second thoughts about this surgery, thinking I ought to try harder, wondering if I really want to limit myself to tiny bites of food for the rest of my life. If I just get out and run like I used to, I can eat what I want! But the fact that I am 56, on this pre-op and I failed on day 4 makes me realize I will never have the stamina to change my behavior enough to lose 100+ pounds. I don't have the luxury of a tv trainer hovering over me. I work until I am exhausted, come home and do chores and fall into bed, just like everyone else. So this is my last hope. It's this surgery or I either die young or become disabled and live longer like my dear Mom. The pre-op is horrible but nothing like what she endured. So I'll make it somehow.

I can't wait until I can comfortably sit anywhere!

Sylvia, sorry, I have been offline for a while. I am having the sleeve done at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Westover Hills by Sea World. My surgeon is Dr. Richard Peterson. He is a UT Health physician and the bariatric program is a joint venture of UT and CHRISTUS. I REALLY like him and the whole staff. I'm very excited about the surgery! Mine is 9/10. When and where is yours? (P.S. Please don't tell him I cheated!)

Please don't beat yourself up. I too am on pre-op and it is miserable. It's 2 weeks of nothing but liquids. Well, lo and behold, I fell off the wagon on day 4. I thought I had made it through the hardest part but I let myself get too hungry and I snapped. I want back to liquids after and am hoping I can stay on them. I've got 9 more days to go. I figure 9 days of liquids should be sufficient for any dang surgery, at least I hope so. So hang in there, do your best, drink your shakes, crystal light, broth, whatever, as often as you can get it down. It helps. I will be so glad to get this behind me and onto the post-surgery phase! That has to be better! God bless!

That is great news!

So glad to hear this!

I think you should discuss this with the Charge Nurse. He or she needs to know this, especially the issue with not documenting your meds accurately. That is definitely a patient safety issue.

That is no friend. I've had people in my life like that before. Cut them off cold turkey! Being alone is far better than being with someone like that. It is cruel. You are brave and working to change your life. Please, drop that "friend" asap. I promise you will be glad later.

I am day 3 of all liquids and now wondering if I am making a mistake. I never realized what a huge part of our culture food is.... Ads, restaurants... Everywhere! Still 11 days to go... Then I'll be on mush for a month, then teeny bites of food for the rest of my life. I hate being fat! So why can't I go run 5 miles like other people to lose weight? What's wrong with me? I have been so gung ho about this. Now I feel unsure and very tired...

Well I'll tell you, being in San Antonio where there is a mexican restaurant every 5 feet and someone brings in breakfast tacos every day ain't helping! Beginning to wish I lived somewhere where they eat sprouts and tofu.

OMG I would ask your surgeon for a pcp referral stat. Then I would tell that stone age doctor to forward your records and tell him exactly why. As for your husband? I am absolutely speechless.

Thank you, Jamie. I know you must be right. This just feels so weird. But I guess we all face life changes and this is yet another one we will look back on one day and say "That wasn't so bad!". At least I hope so. Prayers for you on Monday!

Thank you, Sylvia... I'm just mad at myself for being in this position. I don't have any plans to back out but I'm getting a real lesson on self control and ending my relationship with comfort via food. I knew it would not be easy. But this must be kind of what a drug addict going through withdrawal feels like....

I am on day 3 of a 2 week all liquid diet: protein shakes, broth, sugar free popsicles, decaf tea... If I see on more KFC commercial I don't think I can handle it.