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5 weeks out here, too, and having a heckuva time taking vitamins due to nausea/hurling. I am switching to calcium chews instead of the horse pill wafers. Still trying to eat a piece of multi when I eat. Since I have to take 2 a day, it's challenging. If I take a whole one with food ~ hurl.

Howdy! I am reading some sleeve books (yay, Alex!) and am thinking it would be great to have a place for pre-op sleevers to put on our training wheels and start living as if we were already sleeved. Or at least to mentally and emotionally experience what we will likely encounter post-op and beyond. Maybe someone already has a thread or group going? If not, I'd love to start one. And the vets are more than welcome to help us learn to use our training wheels. For instance, I am a great Water drinker and can slug down a 20 oz bottle, especially after working out. Whoa, 20 oz at one time? Uh, I foresee a slight problem...???? So this will mean I must pay attention to sipping through the day, something I don't really do, since I forget and then play catch up. Also, hellaciously stong coffee is a major Quality of Life issue. A walloping caffeine headache is waiting me on pre-op week... Eating Protein first. Hmm, I like to chomp on veggies (or whatever) when I am food prepping. Which brings up raw veggies and salads. 6-8 months without raw veggies? ???? That bariatric plate thingy: 3 oz protein, 2 oz starch, 1/2 c. cooked veggies. Holy moly... Shakes: I did Optifast for 2 months and was famished the whole time. I will need to be able to do this again. Hopefully that 15% of my stomach won't scream for solids. The whole commitment to all of these new habits I am reading about. I can do amazingly well for extended periods of time. Then get frustrated, say eff it and go back to eating 1/2 dozen doughnuts every day for a week. This will be a lifetime commitment and no room for week or month long food temper tantrums where I fall off the diet cliff. Taking a bite and putting my fork down, chewing each bite (small ones!) 30 times, not snacking or grazing, no eating in bed while reading. i love to read and this last one is surprisingly hard. Really overhauling my inner dialogue (self talk), the mental battles over why I should not eat something, and the depression that follows when I don't get to eat that treat. #SugarDragonBlues Learning to tell myself that I can do this and I am worth the effort. ("And gosh darn it, people like me!") I want to look in the mirror and make peace with the person looking back at me. It's been a frustrating 20 years of Weight/Diet Hell, and I am feeling a tremendous sense of hope that this sleeve "assistant"/tool will set me up for the success I have fought so hard to achieve but could never sustain. Today I say goodbye to that heifer Lucy always snatching away the football from my Charlie Brown self. #BuhByeLucy These are just a few of my training wheel things and I am anxious to hear yours and from the vets.

Welcome! I am new, too, just starting the journey. I have 3 months of supervised weight loss so we can start together.

Anyone fight the urge to eat whatever they want when they finally decided to have wls? I have been eating super healthy (mostly paleo) and exercising without losing. Having made the decision to move fwd with surgery, my mind is now going "woo hoooo!" Did you whoop it up as a last food hurrah and what did you do o snap out of it? Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

@@4MRB4PHOTO, you and I are going to get banned. #kindredspirits Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

Yes, a "food funeral" is exactly how I'm thinking of it. Like my stomach wants a bachelor party with ice cream and cake strippers!