Life with LeslieLee

LeslieLee · May 27, 2007

I just got in from walking, which was really quiet. There seems to be a calm around my little world... that is the outside world... Inside I am nervous and anxious and all a muck. My mind is flitting from one thing to another, but always coming back to. Tomorrow I will be getting on the plane to go to Ontario to have a band put around my stomach.

I am going to be changing the rest of my life with food as I have known it for so many years!!

(((((((((((((((WOW))))))))))))))

I am smiling as I sit here writing this and yet I am still feeling those feelings of what the hell are you doing Leslie... I know from reading here that this is all normal. I can rationalize everything going on in my head and yet those thoughts still come.

So many emotions

susansilver · May 27, 2007

As you have already said - your feelings are very normal Leslielee. I am so excited for you. Tonight I had a few ounces of salmon andsome veggies and even though I have no restirction yet, I was satisified. I even left a couple of veggies on my plate (following bandster eating rules - Protein, veg & fruit, starch). I was at the Canadian Bandster Bash on Saturday and there was a fabulous psychiatrist name Barry Simon who spoke and he compared "buying" the band to buying a very rare and expensive Stadavarius violin. He asked us to think about how long it would take to learn to use such an instrument. So the band, it takes time to learn just how to use it effectively. So be patient, be good to yourself and enjoy the journey. (My lessons to be sure).

JLB · May 28, 2007

LeslieLee, have a wonderful trip and don't worry... it's really not that bad, it will be over before you know it!!! You've done lots of the hard work already. Changing the mindset and getting thru the pre-op diet is the hardest part. Soon you will be enjoying the benefits of the band and I promise - you'll love it!!!!

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Take care and please post as soon as you are up to it. I'll be thinking of you the day of surgery.

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