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Following. I will be in this place in one week and I am curious too. I will be sure to ask at my two-week appointment next week (I see my NUT then anyway).

I am imagining this is very normal. I am one week out from my sleeve and going through the same emotions. Usually this close to surgery you still look and "feel" like the same person you were pre-op. I feel silly too, but man the past two days or so (it makes me laugh at myself) but food is on my mind a lot. pizza and Chinese Food. and I sit there and think about how great they would taste yada yada. BUt I am not hungry for them or anything- I think I am just missing the flavors. My surgeon has you do 2 weeks liquid only AFTER surgery, on top of the 2 week pre-op diet. So needless to say, I have ONE MORE week of eating foods that I am not liking anymore. There's only so much Premier Protein and chicken broth I can handle. Everything else turns my stomach to eat. One more week. One more week. LOL

That is awesome to hear. I had to LOL though, I have no clue how much I am down, I just realized I don't even own a scale. LOL Guess I will find out at my 2 week post-op appointment HAHA.

Yesterday I was out most of the day doing things with the kids (soccer games and conferences etc). It took everything out of me to be gone and walking so much. I slept in so late this morning. I am not doing as well today. I just feel exhausted and drained and uncomfortable. Sorry, just needed to vent a little. I was expecting to get a break from the kids this weekend and that is no longer going to happen, so I am pretty annoyed and disappointed with that situation. Nothing is tasting good. I got all these protein fruit flavored drinks from my doctor and they upset my stomach. The clear broths upset my stomach. The protein shakes upset my stomach. I haven't been sleeping well because I am a stomach sleeper. The week has finally caught up with me I think.

This is my last weekend before surgery and I want to take some "before" photos. Any suggestions or things you wish you had done?

Wow what AMAZING news. How awesome! You must be on cloud 9!

I am 3 days post-op and still taking all of my pain medicine around the clock. If I wasn't taking the pain meds there's no way I would have been able to get my kids off to school this morning or gotten them dinner and ready for soccer practice tonight. I know it's so hard, but try to not compare yourself with others. Everyone has different things going on. I use a pillow when standing up too because it hurts. Oddly though, my incision where they took my stomach out doesn't hurt, it's the one above and to the right of it that is the most sore. Just take things one day at a time You are doing great!!!!

GOod luck tomorrow! I am 3 days post-op and tonight for some reason I had this MASSIVE cravings for some warm spaghetti. Eventually it went away (I couldn't have eaten no matter how bad I wanted it anyway) but it just struck me as odd- because nothing of my post-op food (aside from popcicles) has been tasting good and eating is the last thing on my mind. My brain apparently still thinks I can eat "normal". I am glad to hear everything went well! HURRAY!

You aren't being a downer! Everyone goes through different things at different times. I have been home since last night, but today I feel horrible. The pain is really bad (gas pain) and I have neusea. I am taking so many pills- they hurt so bad when I take them. Sleeping in my bed was MISERABLE, the hospital beds were much nicer where I could sleep sitting up. I am hoping I can get some better rest today while the kids are all in school. I hope you are feeling better today!

Yay Colleen! I am about to get discharged and go home. I am pretty sore in one of my incision sites, but that is to be expected. I have been walking a lot. I only managed to get 4oz of protein in today, but they only had me start late in the afternoon when they took me off IV's. I have mixed feelings about going home lol. I have loved sleeping upright in the bed.

The pre-surgery nerves have crept in tonight. (My surgery is tomorrow morning!!! wooohooo) However as a single mom of 4, it's got me thinking. While I am not expecting anything bad to happen (I've had 4 previous surgeries) there is a little slice in my brain that says to prepare in case something does. While I already have the usual things in place (estate planning etc... and things I have had in order regardless of surgery or not) I am wondering did any of you go so far as to write letters to each of your kids or anything just in case you didn't make it?

I had so much peace about this surgery, I didn't end up writing letters. I am chalking it up to a last minute bout of anxiety. I am hopefully going home tomorrow, surgery went well

We did it!!!!!!!! How freakin awesome are we!????? My surgery went flawless. When I woke up I was sooooo nauseous but they gave me meds and eventually it subsided. I have been up walking a lot, but still sleeping a lot as the anesthesia wears off. Tomorrow as long as I do ok with proteins and possible swallow test I should be ok to go home !!!! I still can't believe I finally did it. It was a long road to get here but I have had so much peace about this surgery Ok time to go back to sleep lol sorry for the pain med induced wall of text above lol.

Prayers for you and everyone else going today! My nerves have just set in- the kids are all off at school, just going to pick up my mom and head down to the hospital to make my 10:30am check-in! SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! edit: I think I am more nervous for the weigh-in. I can tell from my pants (they don't stay up) that I lost a lot this past week on the pre-op diet, I am so curious to know just how much I am down already LOL

Oh my goodness same here! I can't sleep either and I think I have drank a million ounces of water today. lol I am peeing every 30 minutes. LOL

Good luck to everyone else going tomorrow. Mine is at 12:30. I am very excited, but the nerves are starting to kick in. I feel like I have so much to get ready still around the house for the kids. lol

Surprisingly (for me at least) I feel so much better already too! I am on day 9 of my 13 day pre-op diet and I am feeling FABULOUS! It might be that I am not eating a bunch of JUNK (namely fast food) or the excitement about the surgery, or I don't know what- maybe that it is fall- but I honestly am feeling like a million bucks!

Sounds just like me yesterday. Arrived at 6:30am and was in surgery at 7:45am. Everything went well. stayed in the hospital the remainder of the day, night and was released at 4:30pm today. You'll do great. Make sure you get up and walk frequently. It really helps your healing and it takes care of any residual gas pains, if any, that you may experience. Stay on top of your pain meds and don't let long intervals drift between doses. Take them as scheduled and you'll hardly notice any pain, I'll bet. Best wishes. So glad to hear your surgery went well! YAY!!!!!

Hang in there! I am right there with you. My surgery is the 19th. Two family members of mine have had the surgery and both said that the hardest part was the pre-op diet. I just keep telling myself that every day and everytime I feel hungry and want to cave in and eat something. You are so close! The worst part is almost over.

I think this is a very normal fear to have. I can relate, especially since I have tried literally every diet since I was in 5th grade. To me, this feels like it is a "last resort". It is really easy to think that after a million failed attempts that the million and one time will fail as well. I have worked so hard to get to this point and am just so tired and sick of being fat and overweight, that I am giving it my all. Try and just take one day at a time. The more smaller victories I have, the easier it gets. I had 3 times I was SO CLOSE to cheating on my pre-op diet (and I mean cheating cheating- like ordering a fast food meal at a drive-through) but I didn't. I distracted myself, and eventually those cravings went away and I felt like a million bucks later when I realized how awesome and how proud I was of myself for not giving in to the cravings. It is like when I stopped smoking (3 years ago now YAY!). I have the urge to smoke almost everyday still, however I have learned how to deal with the cravings and I know that if I do something else or distract myself for 5 minutes or so- that the craving will go away. This helps SO MUCH. I also know, that if I ever were to have even so much as 1 cigarette again, that I would start smoking again. Always remembering that helps me, because I have worked so hard for 3 years to stay smoke free- there is no way now that I am pissing that all down the drain for one cigarette. I really believe things will get easier for you YOU CAN DO THIS!

I told my family (because I thought they would be supportive and because I need their help with my kids while I am in the hospital and first get home) and they weren't as supportive as I had thought they would be. Sooo I decided to just keep quiet and not tell people about my surgery. However, a lot of them have come around since then, and they are SO EXCITED for me to have surgery- and the more people they are telling outside of our immediate family, they more people who are being supportive and telling me how excited they are and how great this will be for me. Also one of my pet peeves is to read from others who have had surgery that they lie and just tell people they lost weight through diet and exercise. They certainly are NOT Helping to eliminate the stigma of weight loss surgery! All they are doing is helping perpetuate the stigma that people who get surgery are lazy and could lose the weight if they just worked harder at diet and exercise. One of my daughters suffers from mental illness and through the past 3 years I have learned the only way to eliminate the stigmas associated with mental illness is to be open and talk about it to others. Every opportunity is a great opportunity to EDUCATE someone. It is a very empowering thing when you can rework your thinking and change your mindset that way. Now I am coming around and have peace with telling people. I am not running around shouting it to everyone, but I do not feel ashamed of what I am doing and have no problem telling others. People will think what they are going to think anyway. One of the greatest things to come from my choice to have this surgery so far, is that I have learned to finally stop living my life for other people and have started making choices for myself (including my surgery).

haha thanks. I plan on having my phone with me at the hospital and secretly inside if I felt better about the way I looked, I know I would be a total selfie/picture junkie. Soo I am anticipating me being in a lot of photos in the near future

Thanks! I have relatives who have had surgery and they keep telling me, "MAKE SURE YOU TAKE SOME BEFORE PHOTOS!" I have noticed in a lot of before photos that they are usually people in the middle of "doing things" or standing in the background- they aren't necessarily photos that were taken just for the sake of being a "before" photo.

Thanks! I have been debating doing this as a personal reminder for myself (most likely can guarantee I will not ever be posting those anywhere online or sharing with anyone LOL). I think I will do it

I am on day 8 of my 13 days of pre-op diet. The first 3 days were so hard but it got MUCH easier after. Keep drinking every 1.5-2 hours and drink lots of Water too. I just remember how long I have waited for this surgery that I do NOT want to get opened up to have them cancel because my liver didn't shrink. My aunt and uncle both have had WLS and said pre-op diet was actually the hardest part!