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3 more days.... Im still finding liquid diet hard, so tempted to eat anything, but havent so far. I think this diet is giving me douts cause im missing food im saying to myself "can i realy do this, and do i want to change my life this bad". Im very up and down now last wk i was looking forward to it now i feel like my life will be over. i realy love my food and drink. (hense why im getting the band). Is anyone else feeling this way. dont get me wrong i know i have to do it, feeling so shit about myself. I cant even bare to meet new people, if there is a funtion or something on where i dont know people i wont go, i dont want to meet new people and them think "man she is fat". ive only told my fella that but he didnt understand how i could feel like that. Its mad just typing this now is making me feel happy that i am going to do something about it - change it / me. Cant wait till this is over roll on friday afternoon. Keisha85- im from dublin so back to ireland for me but il be home at 10pm on sunday night. I should be staying till mon but its bank hol monday here and i want to be home asap after, nothing like ur own bed.... how are u feeling bout it now.

jenbug - i did that chart and i would save $400 a month on food and weight watchers, so its mponey well spent. keisha85, good luck to u for friday also, hope we both have a safe banding. I think im more or less sorted i going to pack tonight. knowing me ill forget something - once i have clean knichers il get over it..... does anyone know what pain killers we can take after - im taking solpadine with me, are these allowed?

hi everyone,, hope ur all doing well. Im back from a wks holidays and i ate everything in site cause i had to start pre-op diet on friday gone, i put on 4 lbs in that wk. The diet is so hard - im on liquid diet (slim fast) with 5 portions of fruit a day. All i want to do is have a propper meal, even a salad, im not craving fast food i realy want propper food veg curry or salad. Not what i thought id be looking for. I dont know how people do it for longer than the wk, fair play too u if u do u have great determination. OMG my opp is friday i have 4 full days left - nerves kicking in big time. Before this wk i was looking foreward to it thinking this is it no more feeling shit bout my self. Now its around the cornor reality has hit hard, i cant belive im going ahead with it, this is real surgery..... I havent been telling many people, non of my family know, my mother and brother died within the last yr so i dont want to give my dad anything else to worry bout. my partner knows and is totaly behind my, he says im so unhappy with myself that it worth the money, i agree. my sis in law is getting banded with my so my partners family know. i dont want others to know and watching every move i make. anyway i fly out to belguim on wed get pre op test on thurs and then "D day" is friday.... HELP...

I lost this thread, couldnt remember where it was - so ive been catching up. cutiew i had to laugh at ur list the towel thing didnt even occur to me till i read it, how great will that fell a towl all the way around ( such simple pleasures). I dont know bout anyone else but i havent started the preop diet yet so i am eating EVERYTHING in site, im trying to get all my fav foods in before i start, Im eating for the sake of eating and not feeling good on it. Im totaly looking forward to the whole process. Its amazing how crap food can make u feel (if u eat to much of it). I cant wait for the xmas sales to buy new clothes. "nothing taste as good as being slim makes you feel" - heres hopin.:frown:

This is a question for anyone who traveled abroad to be banded. Did you have to get your own insurance, if so what did you go with. I dont know if i just get normal travel insurance? :confused2:

dont know if this would help any of you acs people, but im being banded through WLSgroup in the uk, but they have a place in fitwilliams street in dublin for the fills. there web site says they do take over for fills alone there price is 85 sterling. They are very nice and set up by a woman who has been there done that. as far as i know she comes over once a month. might be worth a shot.

Im so there with u momto5. Its like ive been given free rane to eat what i like. I was in weight watchers before desiding to be banded, so since than ive put on 4 lbs. all my clothes are getting too tight - but there is no way im buying anything new yet. I have the liquid diet to start in 2 wks so that will help. I know i will have to change my thinking bout food, 1 thing ive desided to do is not watch any weight programs cause food just comes into ur head - even if its someone having surgery for the weight loss im not watching them any more.

ahh the dedication fair play to u.im banded on 1st aug.

Hi, i have no ideas about a name i just seen this and have to say. im there too i have tried loads of times to find out how to do it but cant. Good luck on ur tracker journey Joannag....

Hi, thought id join u all. Im due to be banded on 1st aug. im nearly thinking of putting it back cause it seems so soon. Im on hols the wk before and i have to do a 10 day low cal or liqiud diet (slimfast) before opp which meens doing it while im on hols. They told me its to reduce the size of the liver and if i dont they could cancel the opp. However the night before surgery i can go out have a meal and a few drinks before 11.59pm. Im from ireland and traveling to belgium to have it done. I keep thinking of the xmas sales and all the new skinny clothes i hope to be able to buy then. A bit of back ground - as above im from dublin, ireland. im not married but with bayfriend 11 yrs, i have 2 kids a 7yr old and 9 mth old. My daugher keeps asking if i have another baby in my belly!!!!!! BUt iv done weight watchers, which i do think works short term but if like me food is just too appeling to refuse it doest last that long. Ive also done diet pills, and diet sheets. I have made the mistake of telling a few people of what im doing and get the reply of how drastic it is, the closest to me are behind me, but i think why wait till im not able to get around to do it i want to feel good about my self im sick of feeling depressed and dreeding the thought of meeting new people cause they willbe thinking how fat i am, and i dont know anyone else who feels like that. anyway thats my story. hope we can help each other through this cause it is nerve wrecking. Best of luck to everyone. edel.:thumbup:

Hi im new on this. Im being banded on 1st aug this yr. I was just wondering do you set ur own goal weights, like what u feel u would be happy with or are they set at a healthy bmi for you. I think i would be very happy with 4 stone/ 54lbs, but to be healty bmi id say id need to lose 6stone / 84lbs??

ah girls thanks very much for the replys, very encouraging. I came across this site cause i wanted to find people from ireland going throught it, not that easy by the way. Reading peoples replys makes it seem harder that i thought - i was one who thought ah well i just wont be able to eat end of story, that doesnt seem to be the case. Not that it would put me off as WW used to say "nothing tastes as good as being slim feels", not that i can remember what it felt like now it was 10 yrs ago that i was in any way slim. Me and my sis in law are going together, she is being banded as well on the same day so thats a bit of company. she hasnt as much to lose as me but she has been big all her life, she did lose a lot of weight her self with ww and such but she is stuck now. There are a lot of good tips on this site, glad i found it. How do u get the tracker on the bottom.:confused2:

Hi everybody, im new to this page and was hoping for a bit of advise. I am booked into have the band fitted on 1st aug in belgum with Dr Bruno Dillemans. I have read about him but i wont meet him till im over there. Has anyone been to see him or heard stories good or bad, i am going through WLSgroup cause they do the 2 yrs after care. i have bout 6 stone to lose and feel this is the last option now after yrs of WW and diet sheets and pills. i realy feel exceited about it - i think i do have unrealistic goals with as well, id hope to lose 3 stone by xmas. something that the docs wont realy give a defo answer on is can you go out and get drunk after the sugery(not straight away) but id hate to think that i cant have any social life, i have read people do but i thought id ask here.