DizzyLizzy

I had my 1st appt with my surgeon on 9/18 and my surgery is scheduled for 12/22. I could have had it as early as 12/8, but I wanted to wait until my kids were out for Christmas break. I live 4 hours away from the hospital that my surgery will be at, so it that week worked out better as far as the kids. My surgeon had me do a practice diet and get all my testing done, and had me come back a month later. Since I did everything like he asked and did well with the practice diet, he scheduled my "pre-op" appointment a month later, where I had to bring my support person and get more details on what actually happens with the surgery and what to do. Then I just have to do a 2 week liquid high protien low carb diet...on day 6 now! Good Luck!

sorry to bring folks down but I have to vent... been on my liquid diet since Tuesday..my husband and I are at the movies and when we got here, not only did he get popcorn which I LOVE, he looks at me and says "do ya want anything?" and then laughs! what a jerk!

Good luck, everyone!

Wow, sorry to hear about that. Just keep trying...this IS worth it....YOU are worth it!!!! If it makes you feel better, I am sitting here smelling the bacon that my husband cooked for breakfast. This is after I came home last night to an empty house smelling like pizza, with half the pizza left on the stove!!!! Then my husband and my son come in from the movies with a big bag of buttery popcorn!!! Thank goodness for my Crystal Light popsicle, it's the ONLY thing I like about this pre-diet. So, we have to take what good we can find and make it work! WE are worth it!

Thank you soooo much! That means a lot. I am so glad I found this forum...it's nice to know that I am not alone in this and all the weird feelings I have! I have support from my family, but it just helps to "talk" to people who are or have gone through this as well.

I'm finishing up day 3 of my 14 day pre-op liquid diet. I'm only allowed a max of 800 calories, max of 80g of carbs, and they want over 80g of Protein per day. Protien shakes, chicken broth, sugar free popsicles, Water and that's it...no "real food". So, like I said, I'm on day three and I'm now noticing this weird taste in my mouth...kinda sweet, but like day old gum and then kinda acid like at the same time. And my head is killing me, I feel like my energy has been sucked out of me, and I'm kinda jittery. I googled this and seems I'm in ketosis....some say that's good, some say that's bad. Anybody else having this issue?

Yes, I'll be "wheeeee" one minute and feeling like death the next. But, "wheeee" I'm down 8 lbs since Tuesday!

Ok, yeah cause the sorta sweet taste is coming from around my teeth and the other acid like taste is more like just there. Makes more sense. Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the feedback, everyone! I am so glad it's not just me. It's almost like when I had my first child, so excited, wanted it so badly, but scared. I guess in both instances it truely makes you a different person!

OMG, you are too funny!!! Jungle prints & bedazzled jeans, lol, but it's so true!!! I don't know why they think big girls need to sparkle! I drink a shake during my drive in and my drive home, I'm ok going home, but not in the morning. Maybe I need to drink one when I first get up and one on the way!

The first day of the liquid was the worse! I think I was seriously delirious. I could not get in enough calories that day, I think it was under 500. I would be hopping around then tired, my husband even told me I looked crazy, lol. I was supposed to drink 2 more Protein shakes when I got home from work, but I just couldn’t, so I had chicken and noodle Soup. That made me feel better. This ketosis stuff is weird. I have to pee all the time, thought I was going to die at work last night because the cleaning folks were in the bathroom forever. I think my smell is ok, just my tastebuds. I’ve been chomping the heck out of sugar free gum too. I usually do anyway, especially when I’m thinking really hard, lol. But, now it’s just to ease this weird taste I’ve got going on. Good thing is, because I’m so tired, I’ve been sleeping really well at night. I usually wake up several times during the night, but not the past few days, I have been knocked out. But, I work an hour away from home, so the drive is starting to get hard because I feel like everytime I blink, my eyes just want to stay shut, plus it’s dark when I leave, I just want to go to sleep. Not good driving 80mph down the highway. Funny you speak of the hunger pains, I haven’t had any pains really, but I was in a meeting yesterday and my stomach started growling like crazy! So, I drank some water thinking it would come down and it got louder, like a little monster in my belly getting ticked and fussing because I gave it was instead of food. The broth isn’t so bad, I actually like it because I load it up with pepper. And giving up caffeine wasn’t hard because I would only drink a little soda with dinner anyway…now that there is no dinner….lol! And I don’t do coffee, I never growed up for coffee, lol. My saving grace has been the sugar free popsicles…yum, lemonade is my favorite. Did your doc say you could have those? Are you getting emotional and stuff? I don’t know if it’s the drastic change in my diet or if I’m really spazzing out about the surgery….I’m nervous, then I start to 2nd guess if I’m doing the right thing, then when I think of finally going into Target and buying me a regular size shirt, or crossing my legs, I tear up. I’m a mess. I’m feeling loopy, should probably try to focus on some work, drink another shake…

Good luck!!!!!

I get the Swanson low sodium chicken broth and load it up with black pepper. Is that bad for me? It tastes pretty good.

welcome & good luck!

I cheated AGAIN tonight...ate a few of my son's chicken nuggets..UGH!!! Then he told his dad he didn't like them, my husband looked at his plate and said "well you had to eat ALL of those to figure out you didn't like them?" ....thank goodness my boy is only 5 and just shook his head "yeah"...otherwise I would have been caught! LOL! I feel like a crack head! Better luck tomorrow!

I tried to "pig out" before my liquid diet, but I found that I couldn't. Maybe because I've been cutting back on what I eat since September, but I couldn't hardly eat. And the stuff I thought I would enjoy the most, I didn't. Except that chocolate chip cookie, now that was GOOD! lol, but I only had one and I was satisfied, normally I would have had two or three. For me, it showed me that I was ready to do this. But, now that I am on my 2nd day of the liquid diet, I'm feeling really weird. Jittery, agitated, and very tired. Anyone else having that problem? I'm not hungry, I just feel like my energy has been zapped. I only took in a little over 600 calories yesterday, I could have up to 800, but I just could not drink another protien shake. I like them, but that was just too much! I had 4 shakes, a cup of chicken broth, 2 sugar free popsicles, and then a had a cup of chicken noodle soup, even though I wasn't supposed to have the soup, but I needed something, just couldn't suck down another shake. Today is a new day....good luck everyone!

Good luck and congrats to those getting banded this week!!!!

I went to tickerfactory.com created my ticker, and copied one of the codes, I can't remember which one, to the signature section of my LBT page. Hope that helps.

I start my liquids tomorrow...yikes!! I mean, YAY!!! It's gonna be great. I'm getting so nervous and anxious it's driving me a bit nuts!

Congratulations!!!

yeah I just read about Slim Fast...that sucks! I really liked those and was going to the store today to stock up for my liquid diet I start on Tues! I'll have to get with my nut . Thanks for the info & good luck Monday!

It's not fair to single out people who are overweight. If they made everyone take it, I could understand. In fact, my employer is looking at charging overweight people more for health insurance premiums...not fair. They already will start charging smokers more starting 2010...I'm not even a smoker but I still think it's unfair.

That's cool!

I had to have two done and they billed $2,000 - $3500. With my insurance plan, I had to pay 20% of that and I was NOT happy. I was actully ticked that they made me get it done the first time, and when they found I had very, I mean very mild sleep apnea (like 5 and under is normal, mine scored 6) my surgeon made me go back for a 2nd one for the titration study and is making me get a CPAP machine. UGH! With having to pay 20% of my medical bills, I've racked up a good $4,000 of out of pocket expenses just for the testing alone. And my insurance is not covering the surgery, so I have to pay for that out of pocket as well. I tell people I'm putting a brand new car in my belly!

My nut said I can do 2 Slim Fast low carb, and 3 Atkins Advantage shakes (plus a cup of chicken broth, sugar free jello, and 2 sugar free popsicles) a day for my 2 week pre-op diet. I've already been drinking the Slim Fast and Atkins shakes for breakfast pretty much every day since September and I really like those...chocolate are the best. Especially when you get them really cold. They were kind of "blah" when I first started, but now I think they are pretty good.