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I am scheduled to have my lap band surgery on December 7th, 2009. I am on the Optifast liquid diet now, in preparation for the surgery. My wife had the lap band operation on October 26th.

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Congratulations!!! And let me tell you the Optifast diet was the hardest thing I ever did. It is so much easier after banding. I am so excited for you and your wife. Lapband saved my life. A little hint, I used to take the optifast throw it in the blender with some ice a little sweet and low and either choco Syrup for the choco optifast or vanilla extract for the vanilla with some pumpkin pie spice. Really made the optifast yummy and by making it into a shake felt very filling. I hope that helps.. also adding mint extract to the choco or strawberry was good too. I always made them as shakes. :Yawn:

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Congrats on your band date.:confused:

I too hated the shakes, I missed food, even the healthy ones.:)

I would make coffee drinks out of mine, I mixed Decaf coffee and splenda mocha packs with my vanillia and choc. shakes and it tasted like a coffee drink. and it was large so it would fill me up. Good luck and hang in there.

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Welcome and congrats!

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I am a new member as well I am waiting for my approval from ins company every day feels like a month. How is your wife doing? how much has she lost so far?

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Congrats to both you and your wife! I'm looking forward to a February date -- I'm considering it a date with destiny!

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Yoga (Sanskrit, Pali: yóga) refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India. The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its practices. In Jainism it refers to the sum total of all activities—mental, verbal and physical.

Major branches of yoga in Hindu philosophy include Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Hatha Yoga. Raja Yoga, compiled in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and known simply as yoga in the context of Hindu philosophy, is part of the Samkhya tradition.[10] Many other Hindu texts discuss aspects of yoga, including Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Shiva Samhita and various Tantras.

The Sanskrit word yoga has many meanings, and is derived from the Sanskrit root "yuj," meaning "to control," "to yoke" or "to unite."[12] Translations include "joining," "uniting," "union," "conjunction," and "means." Outside India, the term yoga is typically associated with Hatha Yoga and its asanas (postures) or as a form of exercise. Someone who practices yoga or follows the yoga philosophy is called a yogi or yogini

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