I'm getting a lap band!!!!!!

[Donna0526 0]

Hello my name is Donna and this is my first post. I have been approved for surgery and it is schduled for Sept. 12. This past Friday I started the two week Optifast diet. I know that if I can make it through these two weeks, I will be successful at weight loss. I have never done anything the difficult to try to lose weight. The optifast is controlling my hunger, but I so badly want to eat something solid. :thumbdown:

[RestlessMonkey 7]

Hang in there! Your surgeon has you doing it for a reason; probably to shrink your liver. I didn't follow my surgeon's preop diet perfectly and my liver was too large! So I didn't get my band on 8/11 as I hoped. It is AWFUL to wake up in recovery and not have the band like you thought. No food is worth that feeling. I did what he told me and the surgery was successful on 8/29 so you can bet I now will follow his directions.

So I know it's rough, but I know you can do it!