HootieBob

You will be pleasantly surprised at how good you will feel. Be sure to get up and walk. Ha ! I set off the alarm on my bed trying to get out to get the control pad that I knocked on the floor. Hey got their attention. Lol

I had my sleeve on 3/23 and came home yesterday. A little sore last night. Gassy. Burpy. But overall okay. Could not wait to get out of that hospital. Eating and drinking is still interesting. To say the least. :-)

Nature's Best Isopure zero carb Water - 40 grams of Protein - I like the grape but the orange was good too. Try a bottle at GNC to find a flavor you like. You can always add no cal flavor to it if its not grapey enough. Also for joint pain gave me a Rx for a cream Voltaren Gel - I pulled my achilles overcompensating for a knee injury and this works wonders and fast.. http://www.voltarengel.com/consumer/default.aspx

V Glad I am not the only one. Told only my husband and the supervisor who had to approve my leave. Mostly because the dr's office is on the fmla form. Everyone else is aware I have been working on losing since last year.

March 23rd here in Maine. Could have done it earlier but wanted to fit it in between snowmobiling and kayaking. Yes, excited and panicky both. Starting second week of fluids and well, I miss food that you chew. I am 63 mother of three grown and hopefully self sufficient girls. All seem to have good jobs, two are married. Both pretty recently. No grandchildren and not particularly pushing for any. The girls are scattered all around the country NYC, Seattle and Las Vegas. - I am a professional who moved from a high stress job in Alabama to Maine about 7 years ago (after all the girls moved away) And promptly put on 30 lbs. But in Maine if you put a half hearted effort into it there are lots of outdoor activities. like snowmobiling, hiking and kayaking. Which i Just love being out in the woods either way. I am lucky in that I got good genes from my mom's side of the family - so I look younger than my 52 year old husband. But I also got the fat genes too and have struggled all my life with weight - you know the up and down story. I figured this was my last chance to aggressively do something. Especially I want to enjoy my outdoor sports more, get stress off of my knees (I tore ACL last year falling off of the snowmobile) and be able to get in and out of my kayak easier without my husband having to pull me out. I started with my husband, on fitnesspal last June - I went to my first seminar in July and wow here it is already March. I live in the capital which is a fairly small town, but we have a new regional hosptial and everyone says that my doctor is great - I like him. The staff have been very supportive and I've lost 27 lbs ferociously logging into my Fitnesspal. Only my husband knows that I am doing this. I work for the government so plenty of sick leave. Getting all my drinks and Soups and whey and ordered along with my crocheting as I will be din hospital for two nights. I hope I can get back to my desk job the following week but I may not and that is fine too. Husband is loving my fruit smoohies - I keep getting frozen fruit (ha, he won't touch the whey Protein powder though) I would love to know what special things everyone has been doing before they go in to the hospital. I don't want to be fat anymore. Mary I am at 221 with a 36.8 BMI Want to get to 150 and I'd be very fine with that. (wow I have never said that before not even to my hubby)