AnneElliot

I am wondering, my pre-op diet is set for exactly 7 days, and I have exactly 7 days before the surgery, is there anyway to see if you are ready for the surgery in terms of how your liver is? I am really woried that I do not clearly understand my diet. I have been on it for the last 4 days, and went off the cliff today with a small cheese fries, a cup of apple juice, a cup of diet coke and a chapati and eggs cooked in oil. Horrible I know, but I am commited to keeping good for the next seven days, I am not sure if these foods that I consumed today have done something, and that I should forgo any protein or veggies in the next seven days and replace them with protein shakes and yogurt? And for some reason the protien shakes I have been given the Atkinson ones, have about 9.5 grams of fat per can with 1 gram of sugar, the lowest I was able to find but isnt that a bit much fat?? I wish there was a way I could know how my liver was, If I am doing things correctly

___________________________________________________ The camps would be set up wherever is necessary of course. ___________________________________________________ What would be an appropriate beginging here? Oh maybe this Hiel Derrick!....psedou suburbnite neonazi. Coniving the mass murder of billions while guzziling on twinkies and Dr. Pepper That comment sent a shiver down my spine. I am suprised that such comments are allowed on the forum. Comments that endorse and impishly seek the cold blodded mass murder of billions, of women and children. I am sure if someone in this forum said the N word a few times too many in an angry post their account would be immediatly suspended. This is worse. I addressed each of your arguments and the evident inconsistency in your behaviour towards a hijabgirl1973 "muslim that should be killed' but you ignore them. You assume that I am inactive individual who has not written or spoken out, only because it suites and supports your racists beliefs. Moreoever, you choose to ignore the problems and extermism that exists in all religions, from rampid sexual abuse and robbery in the catholic church, ethnic cleansing commited by christian serbs to volient acts commited by extermist hindus against miniorty christians and muslims in India and Srilanka. Somehow you have validated your extremist twisted belefs and hatred in a perverted ranking of all religions from very worst to the least worst. Do not attempt to back up your blind prejudice and hatred towards Muslims with fallacious and hollow arugments. It would be far simpler to head to the Salon and shave you hair and join the ranks of your Neonazi brethren...that is ofcourse assuming you aren't alrealdy a member !

I must say I found this thread quite interesting. I could be sitting next to some of you in a support group hearing and discussing the difficult life that an obese person leads, while all along the person next to me might ardently believe in begining the next holocoust. Can you imagine it? I know horrid ( that is if you are a sensible person) What would we wear, not the star of david to identify us in the streets..Ah! the cresent moon in green. Neogestapo ripping hijabs off young girls heads while we are being lead to dentention and concentration camps, would they situate these camps of death in the England or the US ? or maybe throw us in the middle of Poland and Cuba? When comments such as the below are uttered, any intelligent person would imagine no less. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Until this happens I will continue to do what I do and believe that we need to kill every muslim man, woman and child before they can do the same to us. __________________________________________________________________________________________ As these thoughts were racing in my head and I serioulsy considered ending my membership in this forum, I hit the "next" button. Only to see the comment below refering to "hijabgirl1973" In one breath you condemn billions to death and in the next you refer to one as "good people" what an inconstant nature you have? Can you not take a step back and see the irrationailty of you behaviour. ______________________________________________________________________________________ By the way thanks for the reading material, your good people. __________________________________________________________________________________________ You watch CNN and read sensentional news and decide that all Muslims are mad, I know my next sentence is going to sound rather old. But the actions of few, should not condemn the many. You ask why dont we yell and write letters? Do you see us all being connected by some invisible web, muslims are of all different creeds and cultures and lead lives that involve work, play and family things that occupy the mind, we watch CNN and BBC like you. Lamenate on the bad news and change the channel, we have no special fire in us, life is far to difficult for that. I ask you how long did take for the Roman Catholic Church to end the practise of sending young "fallen women" to asylums or for that matter, how long did it take the church to deal with the sexual abuse in its ranks? These are offences commited by men and women who are a part of a structured organization, can you say the same of a demented man who murders his daughter in a fit of anger? I am not here to compare religions, all religions have those who wish to pervert them for thier own good. But I must say, I will certainly keep to the Pre-op and Post-op pages of this forum, I find that I prefer it when I dont see the ugly side of the forum.

December 20th 2007 Discovering a new tool is a wonderful thing. This site will be one of the many things that will help me stay grounded and focused on my goal. I have chosen to keep my decision to go through with the Lapband to a very small circle of people, which makes it difficult to share any information with firends and family who cannot understand why I am under so much stress and experincing severe anxiety at times. Or for that matter, why I have suddenly taken up a serious diet (Or atleast trying) Not only do I have the stress and fear of going through my first ever surgery, but I am also in my last year of university, applying to Graduate school, looking for work and buying an aptment. There are so many things that I need to do, that I spend 2 or 3 days doing nothing, just need to escape after having 3 or 4 days of doing everything. In many ways this is literally the year of change for me. I am no longer a student living at home, I need to be or will have to be soon a presentable, working adult individual who is pursuing a graduate degree and living on her own. Talk about stress. But looking at the postive side, which is always important to do when finishing a not so happy thought. Its all very good stress and very positive change and what can be better than that?

December 20th 2007 Discovering a new tool is a wonderful thing. This site will be one of the many things that will help me stay grounded and focused on my goal. I have chosen to keep my decision to go through with the Lapband to a very small circle of people, which makes it difficult to share any information with firends and family who cannot understand why I am under so much stress and experincing severe anxiety at times. Or for that matter, why I have suddenly taken up a serious diet (Or atleast trying) Not only do I have the stress and fear of going through my first ever surgery, but I am also in my last year of university, applying to Graduate school, looking for work and buying an aptment. There are so many things that I need to do, that I spend 2 or 3 days doing nothing, just need to escape after having 3 or 4 days of doing everything. In many ways this is literally the year of change for me. I am no longer a student living at home, I need to be or will have to be soon a presentable, working adult individual who is pursuing a graduate degree and living on her own. Talk about stress. But looking at the postive side, which is always important to do when finishing a not so happy thought. Its all very good stress and very positive change and what can be better than that?

I am surprised to see that some of you are only eating cottage cheese and yogurt. I got my menu for the pre-op diet and went shopping today, it had lots of spinach salad, with balsamic vingrette chicken, Sole ( i have no idea what that is, I guess its some kind of fish) and tuna with ofcourse yogurt/cottage cheese (yuck on the latter) for breakfast and as an alternative for every meal. I was wondering if super low fat, 0 carb jello would be allowed?

I am getting my band on Jan 3rd at TLBC. Alittle anxious about the whole thing, but rather exicted, happy to find this site and some Canadians too!