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Hi all,

Well, 5 more days until I'm officially banded. I have so many emotions I'm feeling every day. Happy, excited, scared and a little angry. Anger is not an emotion I expected. It probably comes from the "beast" within. I'm sure all of you can relate. It's the beast (food addiction) that has been a part of me for so long. I think the proverbial beast isn't happy that I'm taking steps to conquer it.

Is it just me, or is the Lap Band totally flooding the market of TV land. Or maybe I'm just in tune now that I'm soon to be banded. The below ticker is not correct. I'm down 5 lbs. thanks to 1000 calories a day pre-op diet.

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In the UK we don't have advertising on TV for things like lap banding but I think most of the publicity comes from celebrities who had had it done, notably Fern Britton.

I must say I do like the fact that food can wait, there are more interesting things to do in life, in fact I am probably not even drinking enough...

Good luck. I have not regretted it yet although still only on day 7

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Hi all,

Well, 5 more days until I'm officially banded. I have so many emotions I'm feeling every day. Happy, excited, scared and a little angry. Anger is not an emotion I expected. It probably comes from the "beast" within. I'm sure all of you can relate. It's the beast (food addiction) that has been a part of me for so long. I think the proverbial beast isn't happy that I'm taking steps to conquer it.

Is it just me, or is the Lap Band totally flooding the market of TV land. Or maybe I'm just in tune now that I'm soon to be banded. The below ticker is not correct. I'm down 5 lbs. thanks to 1000 calories a day pre-op diet.

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I know what you mean....I was very emotional before surgery also. Not because I was scared of the surgery, but because I couldn't believe my bad eating/drinking habits over the last 10 years had led me to need something so drastic.

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