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Good luck to everyone having surgery this week! Mine is Tuesday. The preop diet is killing me which has made me truly ready for the surgery. Sorry to be a whiner lmao but I'm so ready for them to cut my stomach off so I'm not this starving all the time!

Mine's on the 8th! Started pre-op diet and incentive spirometer work today. Also had my H&P today. Everything is in motion now and it's gotten very real very fast!

You look amazing and sound so much happier than you were before! So happy for you!

You look fantastic! Love the hair too!

Oh my gosh, has anyone tried any of the BP microwave packets of their entrees? I bought a couple of the hamburger helper type protein entrees and the one kind I tried was so disgusting that I literally will never be able to try the other kinds. I am very sensitive to gross chemical-y flavors and IDK if it's the protein or just the whole of all the ingredients but I swear I can still smell the funk in my apartment weeks after cooking it, and I can smell it through the package in my pantry and it's making me gaggy just thinking about it!! I bought several options to try before my surgery so I'd have an idea what I could stomach...and I have learned that I can't stomach them with my normal stomach!!! Lesson learned I guess, stick to whole, normal foods. What the hell do I do with all this wasted food now? I hate to throw it away. But I know I won't be able to eat them either, they've got the same smell. I bought the protein soups too and can't even bring myself to try them. Does anyone actually like these? Please feel free to come take them out of my stank pantry since I can't build up the courage to throw them out yet because they were expensive AF [emoji23]

Girl you look amazing!! And so happy for you and proud of you, you deserve all the happiness!

Sorry I was headed to bed when I posted this, grabbed the link for you. https://lornasaurustuff.tumblr.com/post/161080365196/muneo-manyeo-luxuriant-starlight-zerosuit

I just saw a video where a girl used white elmers glue mixed with grits and turmeric and cayenne pepper powder? On the dark spots on her armpits and let it sit to dry then peeled it off and it was ALL GONE after.

You look amazing. Appreciate everyday for what it is and don't get so obsessed with numbers that you aren't enjoying how fit you are now!!

Glad you're getting out. Your kids will be okay with some time to heal. Proud of you!

Nurses are supposed to be superhuman and never eat, never drink, never pee! Food and drinks aren't allowed on the floor in most hospitals, board of health is afraid we'll spill blood in our coffee and then drink it anyway or something. As a nursing student you'll prob have an area for your group to keep your stuff, just go in often between rounds and get a sip.

You look fantastic! Love the redder hair too!

Hi all! This is my first post here, my dietician suggested I join to get some input from others on some of my nagging worries. I keep telling her I just cannot even fathom that I won't be constantly almost panic inducing-ly preoccupied with food like I am now, especially with such restricted calories. I have a long history with restriction and exercise bulimia then rebound binge eating disorder and lots of therapy under my belt plus a year of pre-op certification to get approved. I'm just so scared this is how I'll always be. (I am stable enough for surgery, all of my team agrees.) I was a maniac at the peak of my restriction, eating 1000 calories a day and going to the gym for an hour on my lunch break and an hour after work and I was just miserable. Finally I couldn't keep up with that and gained back all the weight I'd lost with some serious binge eating disorder in place of it. It's all left me with a panicky preoccupation with food most of the time, and the dietician says that my brain chemistry will change and I just...can't imagine. Peace? Will there be peace? I'm 31 now and so sad that my self hatred and obsession with weight loss and dieting and food stole my youth. I've had binge eating disorder for so long that it's basically not effective anymore for that rush my urge to eat is so desperately seeking, which has been a good thing in slowing it down, though I know the discomfort and preoccupation is my body seeking more and more for that high. I am afraid that 'losing' the few foods I still do like will be devastating to me in terms of quality of life. That sounds dramatic lol especially in comparison to REAL, ACTUAL quality of life. My dad had a heart attack and died at 54 a few years ago and I know if I don't get it together I'm going to be on the same path. Have any of you maintained success with a similar background? Also I fear getting back into exercise because I fear getting out of control again, also, I just hate it with every fiber of my being. Now especially with all the weight I've gained because it's just so physically painful. I know I have to find something I like, but I don't know what that will be yet. (As a very fair skinned, very heat intolerant introvert, it will probably be something in my nice air conditioned apartment lol) As a former and still fat kid, I have a borderline traumatic lifelong history with the discomfort and embarrassment of physical activity and everything in my brain is always just SCREAMING "NOOOOO" to any type of exercise. I'm sure some of you can relate. How did you get over that?

You look great!

Are you saying I'm still a maniac? Lol jk, I know I am. I'm very up and down and anxious. Will try to relax.

Thanks so much! I'm working on finding foods I like that are better for me but also satisfying. What do you like?

Thanks! And Yay August pals! I'll shoot you a message so we remember

I'm going to agree in the gentlest way possible that you've made this entirely about yourself instead of his wellness and you sound incredibly selfish.

Thanks! This post isn't that old lol . I'm scheduled for August 8th. I did do well on a prescription stimulant for weight loss (also found out then that I prob have adult ADD because I was like literally a new human able to function and study!) but they wouldn't let me stay on it permanently, so all the weight bounced right back. "Surgery makes it bearable to quit food as we know it" that's what I'm hoping. I know I have a problem and I do as much as I can against it but nothing has been entirely effective permanently. It's frustrating. Food addiction is the only addiction where you have to continue to use your drug of choice to survive and trust yourself to do it without overdosing, and that's a b***h.

It is NOT your fault.

Happy for you! So soon! I'm starting to feel anticipation. Wouldn't quite call it excitement yet lol. I'm very afraid I'll fail, I think, it's probably some subconscious self protection.

Just got my letter, pre admission testing and Upper GI are scheduled for July 20th, I meet with my surgeon the 25th and then surgery is August 8th. Anyone else scheduled for August? I kinda... feel like I wanna barf lol

Here, at least you have the choice to not open the thread.

Hahaha exactly how I feel! My big pre-op class is the same day as my pre-op testing. I appreciate them putting it all together like that, it's like they remember we're actually people with jobs and lives and things to do lol. When is your surgery?

Absolutely! You got this.