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[New & Improved Mel 1]

It's highly unlikely that you will regret your decision to have surgery. I am 6 days out from surgery, lost about 2 kg / 5 pounds and I am already finding things in life a little easier, such as bending over to put on the TED stockings (for after surgery to prevent blood clots), the action of doing that is already easier than a day ago, and a whole lot easier than 6 days ago!! It puts you on such a high!

I have more room in my clothes already and feel more comfortable, and my face has slimmed already. The slimmer person is already starting to peak out!! And I tell you what, she is a whole lot more attractive and confident.

To answer how I feel, at the moment I feel weird. I still have trapped gas in my stomach cavity etc and the liquid diet makes your stomach and bowels behave erratically. My stomach 'rumbles / spasms' very often and sometimes it is quite loud, but I honestly can say I have felt no hunger at all. Which is the greatest thing!! but that is not to say that when I smell foods like the pizza, lasagne or chinese that my hubby has eaten lately, that I did not want to have some. I still crave to taste those things at the moment, but I am not actually feeling hungry and if I move away from the sight and smell of them, I don't need them, which I never could have done before.

I can't see how this tool cannot work, before on any of the 100's of diets I have been on before, the hunger always got me and once I had stuffed up once, I just thought oh stuff it and continued to eat whatever!! So I view this as a new life 'diet' with a double cheat card: 1) no hunger and 2) restriction on the amount I can eat. And what I chose to fill my new small stomach up with will determine how well I am going to go.