February Bandsters?

[Will1970 18]

Hi all,

Mine is Feb 15^th and have mixed emotions between happiness that I will take this journey which I am hoping it will be a successful journey and between being so afraid as I never been in any kind of surgery before I even don’t know how the surgery room will looks like also I am afraid from the complications I need some encouragement this is why I am hereJ

Good luck all and keep me posted with your results

At dinner tonight i asked my wife about how she felt before her surgery date a year ago because she really is the biggest crybaby when it comes to pain, its crazy how much of a baby she is to anything litterly screaming or crying over stuff. To sum it up and keep it simple she said that after going out for years with her skinny good looking friends and always being the big one out of her group, and guys always fawning over her friends and ignoring her she was just emotionally ready for this. She was like probably most of us she could go all out crazy and drop 30,40,50 lbs but it always came back. She also has type 1 diabetes so with what she would be forced to eat sometimes for low sugar would always fight against her diets and she would gain again. The past 6 months she had a broken foot and messed up her back and has not been able to exersize at all, normally a person would gain and she continued to lose still that is amazing.

[Greekie17 22]

I just got back from fuddruckers and had a 1lb burger and finished it, it was on my bucketlist of food items before i get the band.

Will, My lap band surgery manual has a line in it that looks like this:

NO LAST SUPPER BEFORE SURGERY!!!!

So you decide! lol

[Fit in my 60's 25]

That's so funny, Greekie! I guess they predicted what everyone was thinking.

[Chastndeb 19]

I think it is normal to freak a little bit about having surgery...no one does that often...I'm excited about changing my life, but I'd be lying if I said I am not apprehensive about the surgery itself. It will be my third laproscopic surgery--I had a Da Vinci "robot" hysterectomy 2 years ago, and a ovaian cyst removed 25 years ago. Anesthesia is not my friend, so I dread that. But I am trying to focus on how this lap band can help me get healthier as well as thinner....Deb

[livluvbug 0]

Feb 3rd for me im so so so excited/ nervous. Can't wait!!!

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[jennxaz 6]

Got my date feb 16th!!!!

[myluv2drive 30]

Hello, I am going to be banded on Feb. 16th @ 7am. I am really excited but a little scared. Hoping to make a few friends here and get some support down the road.

[Queen Bea 11]

I am so nervous about the surgery that I'm not able to eat, I'm just not hungry at all now, I even feel sick after I force myself to eat. Since my initial consult on 1/19 I've lost 8 lbs. I don't start my pre-op shake diet til next week. Wondering if I'll be able to tolerate it. I see the surgeon on 2/06 and surgery is 2/21.

[Cant wait to Lose 20]

Starting my second week of the pre-op diet! So far I have lost 17lbs during the first week of the diet. I get banded on 2/6/2012! I started at 375 and Doctor would like me to get to 200. So I am looking to lose 175lbs. total!

[Mariaband 11]

Same here but let us support and engourage each other.. what I am doing now to shift my thinking is to think about other things also keep checking my old cloth when I was size 10 and this engourages me a lot..

I am so nervous about the surgery that I'm not able to eat, I'm just not hungry at all now, I even feel sick after I force myself to eat. Since my initial consult on 1/19 I've lost 8 lbs. I don't start my pre-op shake diet til next week. Wondering if I'll be able to tolerate it. I see the surgeon on 2/06 and surgery is 2/21.

[Queen Bea 11]

Same here but let us support and engourage each other.. what I am doing now to shift my thinking is to think about other things also keep checking my old cloth when I was size 10 and this engourages me a lot..

Lol I have a couple of new jeans I had bought and couldn't wear cause they were my goal jeans. Well let's just say they are now 2 sizes too small from when I bought them, they are my inspiration. "I bought you and darn you I'm going to wear you!!" And then pass you on and get smaller jeans then that.

My heart is in this I don't want to keep going sizes up and packing away the clothes I'm too big for. I want to lose the weight and inches and get rid of the big girl clothes as soon as they get baggy.

It's just my anxieties getting the best of me that's keeping me from eating and being able to stomach anything. I'm a single mom of 3. Stressing over the surgery, healing post op, and being able to still take care of their needs.

Thankful to have this site as a reminder that im not alone.

[ready4changein2011 70]

Just approved should get a February surgery date soon. Glad its a lot of us we can support each other. Will keep you all poated on the date. Goodluck

[myluv2drive 30]

Starting my second week of the pre-op diet! So far I have lost 17lbs during the first week of the diet. I get banded on 2/6/2012! I started at 375 and Doctor would like me to get to 200. So I am looking to lose 175lbs. total!

cantwait2lose, How is the pre-op diet going? Any challenges I should know about? I start mine Thursday of this week.

[angel_eyes4477 65]

Hi All! New to the site! My surgery date is February 10th I'm scared out of my wits, but excited too. I am a little worried because I have read where others aren't doing too well on the Protein. I'm hoping that I tolerate it pretty well, and that I do okay on the liquid diet. Wow, just 11 more days....!

[Stace2882 43]

i just got approved last week, so now im waiting for my appt date, and to start my pre-op diet, THEN should be getting banded mid february!!!!!!! ahhhh so excited and ready for this waiting game to be ova finally ugh! im nervous about doing well with this pre-op diet but im gunna give this my all, time for a new me =] GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!!!!!