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Well here are some I came up with January Jackpots Jazzy Januarys Januarys on a Journey Joyful Januarys Jubilant Januarys

It is personal and everyone is different. I haven't been able to keep my big fat mouth shut about it! It's all I think about and I'm so excited that I want to shout it out I'm going to save my life!!!!! Well we will see how that goes. I figure most people just talk about everybody behind their backs anyway so they can talk about me and give everybody else a rest:)

Wow way to go! Be very proud of yourself your kicking @**!

Congrats and good luck on your surgery tomorrow. If you do have a hernia your surgeon should fix it while he is in there. It shouldn't add to your recovery time or anything. Good luck again.

Dont be sad. Have you asked your team at your surgeons office? Or maybe if you go to a local support group you could ask around or maybe start one yourself. My support group has one also and you can sell your clothes or just donate them kind of like craigs list. Best of luck.:rolleyes2:

The days are flying by and I am getting so excited its hard not to jump around doing a happy dance all day. I've been on my pre-op diet for 6 days now and although it started out super hard the rewards are already showing. I have lost 11 pounds! I am so excited about this. The realization that this is really going to happen for me if I stick with it and follow my instructions is blowing my mind. I am starting to even have skinny dreams. I have to admit though I might never look at jello or broth the same again after a month of it. I am hoping to lose another 5 pounds before surgery even though my surgeon doesn't require it. Well I'm hoping the days keep flying by and I hope my pants start getting a little more baggy.

How inspiring.

I think you can start over right now. If the head hunger is getting to you and you don't feel motivated to move atleast get on here and look at some of the inspiring stories. Maybe if you strive to do what others have done it won't seem so hard and you can be the mentor to someone later that is having the same struggles you are having now. I wish you all the best and know you can do it if you put your heart in it.

Oh wow I am so excited for you. I have the same fear about waking up and having them tell me they couldn't place the band. I asked my surgeon how often this really happens and he said it has only happened to him twice and he has done well over a thousand surgeries. So we follow the diet we should be just fine. Congrats on your current weight loss and Good luck with your future journey.

Hey Barbara and JackieJ. Can we be triplets? I'm being banded on the 12th too. I am so excited I can hardly contain it.

OMG I am so glad I'm not the only goofball that plans on naming their band! I named mine "Kip" I don't know why it just came to me. I told my boyfriend and he called me a dork and asked why I wanted to name it. I told him so I could say things like "Kip your not still hungry" and "Kip your ticking me off." and "I love you Kip your the best thing that's ever happened to me." I know I'm a dork. Lol.

Well I am definately feeling for you taco bell chick that would be very hard. But I have found the best way to get through this is humor. Me and my boyfriend just laugh as I eat my incredibly delicious lovely serving of j-e-l-l-o! He makes me describe the flavor in detail and how savory it is. It makes us laugh and I just keep thinking I'm doing this for me. So good luck and God bless.

I am on the 6th day of my pre-op diet and it's not horrible. The head hunger and cravings are starting to lessen. I have a protein shake for breakfast and lunch and a lean cuisine for dinner. I can have sugar free jello or low sodium broth as much as I want. And I can put fresh fruit with my shakes but I eat it on the side instead so I can chew. I have lost 11 pounds so far and that's pretty cool. I keep thinking shrink liver shrink.

The days are flying by and I am getting so excited its hard not to jump around doing a happy dance all day. I've been on my pre-op diet for 6 days now and although it started out super hard the rewards are already showing. I have lost 11 pounds! I am so excited about this. The realization that this is really going to happen for me if I stick with it and follow my instructions is blowing my mind. I am starting to even have skinny dreams. I have to admit though I might never look at jello or broth the same again after a month of it. I am hoping to lose another 5 pounds before surgery even though my surgeon doesn't require it. Well I'm hoping the days keep flying by and I hope my pants start getting a little more baggy.

I know this was an old thread but I just started a liquid pre-op diet and this helped ALOT! Glad to know I'm not getting the flu. Thanks everybody even though it's such a taboo subjest for answering.

Oh my goodness I started the pre-op liquid diet today and I'm fighting some serious head hunger someone just made popcorn here at work and I can smell it! I hope once I get in a good routine that this will get a little easier. I never realized all the things that triggered me to eat. Smell, boredom, being tired. I'm going to succeed and follow this diet to a T. Is anyone else on thier pre-op diet struggling?

OK so I just ate the last supper. You know the last meal you eat before you start your pre-op diet the next day and the rest of your life and eating behaviors change forever. Yea that one. I had a leftover turkey sandwich on white bread with miricle whip and some cheetos. Not healthy I know but seeing as for the next 2 weeks all I can have is protein shakes, broth, jello and liquids I don't think it was that bad. I am so excited to start this I can hardly concentrate on anything else. The next 14 days are hopefully going to fly by and before I know it I will be laying naked on an operating table getting all fixed up with my band. I'm thinking of naming it. We care for it like a child why not name it. I am hoping that since I won't be eating much that it really jump starts the weight loss and I can drop a few pounds maybe enough so my undies aren't so tight. Anyway tonight when I get off work I plan on doing 2 things. 1) Making a ton of sugar free jello 2) Taking my before pictures. Did I mention I'm excited?! Lol. I will end with my favorite quote. "Hope is a good thing maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies." I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope.

OK so I just ate the last supper. You know the last meal you eat before you start your pre-op diet the next day and the rest of your life and eating behaviors change forever. Yea that one. I had a leftover turkey sandwich on white bread with miricle whip and some cheetos. Not healthy I know but seeing as for the next 2 weeks all I can have is protein shakes, broth, jello and liquids I don't think it was that bad. I am so excited to start this I can hardly concentrate on anything else. The next 14 days are hopefully going to fly by and before I know it I will be laying naked on an operating table getting all fixed up with my band. I'm thinking of naming it. We care for it like a child why not name it. I am hoping that since I won't be eating much that it really jump starts the weight loss and I can drop a few pounds maybe enough so my undies aren't so tight. Anyway tonight when I get off work I plan on doing 2 things. 1) Making a ton of sugar free jello 2) Taking my before pictures. Did I mention I'm excited?! Lol. I will end with my favorite quote. "Hope is a good thing maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies." I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope I hope.

Hey Jenn160 I'm being banded on the 12th too! Are you going on your pre-op diet on Dec 29th? Is it all liquids or do you get a small meal? Keep in touch.

I wonder now that the day is fast approaching of starting my pre-op diet if what I will miss most is the food or the weight. Of course I hate being fat, but I do believe it has made me who I am today. I know I am funny because of it. If you can't laugh at yourself first then you can't beat people to the punch. I also know that I have used it as an excuse for so many things like not going out with friends not dating people and not going places where I know my body will make me uncomfortable (theme parks, water parks, pools in general, basically anywhere a swimsuit might be involved) I guess I am just going to have to get used to the new thinner version of myself and say goodbye to the things I hide behind. Bye Bye huge servings of delicious food. Bye Bye weight. Hello new life.

I wonder now that the day is fast approaching of starting my pre-op diet if what I will miss most is the food or the weight. Of course I hate being fat, but I do believe it has made me who I am today. I know I am funny because of it. If you can't laugh at yourself first then you can't beat people to the punch. I also know that I have used it as an excuse for so many things like not going out with friends not dating people and not going places where I know my body will make me uncomfortable (theme parks, water parks, pools in general, basically anywhere a swimsuit might be involved) I guess I am just going to have to get used to the new thinner version of myself and say goodbye to the things I hide behind. Bye Bye huge servings of delicious food. Bye Bye weight. Hello new life.

I think all our men need to start a support group called former chubby chasers united. I think anyone that goes into this kind of commitment when they are in a relationship feels like maybe the other person will not feel the same about them after they lose the weight. They probably all think us former chubbies are going to go looking elsewhere for someone else. I think they have the logic a new body needs new attention or something. We can chalk it all up to insecurity on both ends, but we shouldn't hate on ourselves its in human nature to have those feelings. Our men will love us whether we have more cushion or not. I think I should be more worried about my 3 year old who told me "I like you squishy" the other day. lol.

I can't see my feet without bending over walk up stairs without panting like a whore sit indian style for more then a minute cross my legs like a lady tie my shoes without hiking my leg up on something believe the reason my boyfriend doesn't want to have sex is because he is tired stand up and do the dishes without my back hurting believe I ever let myself get this big picture myself thin. These are all things I can't do or believe but I am a can do person and I will get this weight off my body and my mind and I will be thinner and healthier soon. I will I will I will. God Bless. April

oh we are the same creature my friend. I did the same thing! I start my pre-op diet on Dec 29th and my surgery is on Jan 12th. I didn't want to risk failure and I'm honest I wanted one last holiday horrah!