G Rose

Huh, we have the same doctor and they didn't tell me that. I guess we'll see! I'd rather be home asap. Hate, hate, hate the hospital more than anything. I'd also rather get the surgery over early in the day. I'm going to be hungry with just clear liquids the day before!

I'm not having too much of a problem, but we're allowed up to two lowfat soups a day. It's weird to me how much the diets vary. Get your stories straight, doctors! That said, on day 1 I was so hungry I chugged some marinara sauce from the bottle. Oh well, it's low fat. Since then, I haven't really been too hungry.

I am on Day 1 on my liquid diet. I am SO HUNGRY! Yeesh. I am going to have a can of Progresso soup for dinner. I hope that holds me. The reason I need this damn band in the first place is because I turn into a screaming infant when I'm hungry! Oh well, I suppose one lousy week won't kill me. I bought Unjury powder to use because they have a chicken soup flavor and I don't like sweets as much. It's OK, not great. I haven't tried anything else so I don't know if they're worse.

I have BC/BS, and it took me 9 months to get from initial consult to surgery. 6 months of dieting and then my cardiologist's office jerked me around for two months. So I was pretty excited to get my surgery date and now it's been moved 3 days to Nov 4 because Dr Geiss has jury duty! Oh well, one more delay won't kill me.

I had my presurgical meeting with Dr Geiss's team yesterday....I can't believe how much detail they went into about the surgical procedures! It was longer than the operation's going to be! Oh well, I suppose more information is better than less, but my fibromyalgia was acting up. Only a few more days and I start my liquid diet. I have to say I dread the liquid diet more than the actual surgery!

That's going to be really hard for me. I eat like a starving dog most of the time. I've been trying, but I haven't really been able to make it stick yet. Guess I'll have to learn pretty soon!

Three weeks of liquid diet? Ugh! I don't know if I could do that. Mine's one week before. That much, I can probably handle. Maybe. I keep thinking back to those Slim Fast days in the late 80s where I think I got hungrier than ever. Oh well, it's only a week, it can't kill me. I hope.

Hey topazz, I'm going with Dr Geiss too! I like him and the office.

Hi, I'm new here too. Being banded Nov 1 and am very excited about it. I started the process back in February, had to wait six months for my diet (BC/BS), and then wasted a lot of time getting cardiology clearance. But now I'm getting very excited! I'm 45, married mom of two, and my health is bad. The LAP-BAND® is a way for me to get more control over my health.