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is anyone else hating the postop diet as much as i am?? i am starving to death! i am on day 5 of clear liquids and protein shakes and im about to kill someone! any advice??

im day three post op, and i must be honest because i feel like i wasnt warned. im in a lot of pain, but i think a lot of it has to do with i had a hiatal hernia that he said was the largest in a while that he has seen. getting out of a chair or getting in a chair is like torture. the day after was the worst. i couldnt even get out of bed on my own my mom had to pull me out. but on the bright side, its in and it will get better everyday. i just thought you all should know because at first it kind of sccared me because i had read everyones posts saying how they didnt even need to take there medicine and felt wonderful so i thought something might be wrong with me. now all i can think about is week 3 when i can have soft foods, chicken broth is on my nerves!!

leaving in 30 minutes for surgery! couldnt be more excited!!

hey, im 22 and having lapband june 10th, the day after tomorrow! time is moving so slowwww. but i would love to keep in touch

i cant believe the day after tomorrow ill be having surgery! ahhhhh i feel like time is going by SOO slow. for those of you that have had surgery now, how was it??? what is the pain like?

i am having my surgery june 10th and im not scared at all. my friend and i were laughing about it earlier becuase i was telling her im excited to go under, its like the best nap ever. plus the loopy medicine they give you before hand, its like the best margarita ever. im excited more than anything to finally start losing weight and keep it off. i wonder if i will get nervous the day before, but i really dont think i will. right now im more concerned about how i will look for surgery. i had to get my highlights redone, manicure/pedicure, and eyebrows threaded so i will look cute for surgery lol.

ive been thinking about this same quesiont. i am 22 so my friends and i go out drinking and out to eat a lot, especially on the weekends. i talked to my doctor about alchohal and he told me to avoid wine and beer as much as possible, but he told me it was totally fine to have liquor with diet mixers, like diet coke, sprite zero..all those things. obviously he wouldnt want me drinking liquor all the time because of the calories but once or twice a week he had no problem with. he also told me the whole rule about "not drinking while eating" was bs. there has been studys focusing on that, 10 people who dont drink while they eat and 10 people who drink as they eat, and there is absolutely no difference.

ive been on my preop diet for a week now, and i cheated bad last night! i dont think rum qualifies as a protein shake....whoopsies! but luckily my doctor is awesome and he calls it the "work hard, play hard diet" which means if you do well all week, saturday you can do whatever you want, so i just pretended like yesterday was saturday. BUT i think he meant for that to be AFTER surgery..which is getting close, 6 more days yay!

hey guys, so i went to my preop appointment today and i have lost 6 pounds in 4 days! but i was tramatized me cause i was weighed by the most beautiful man in the universe..i wanted to dieeeeeeeeee. but o well, 9 more days!

i am going through true results in houston, i love it so far, they have been really helpful and made me feel very comfortable. my preop appointment is tomorrow and surgery is scheduled for june 10th

ive been drinking the muscle milk light as well, they actually taste pretty good and they only have 100 calories with 15 grams of protein

ive been drinking the muscle milk light as well, they actually taste pretty good and they only have 100 calories with 15 grams of protein

wow mrs beebies! i couldnt have said it any better myself! i have become addicted to this website, and i love it so much! its great to have people to talk to about all this who UNDERSTAND.

hey! i am 22 as well, and i will be banded on june 10th. i know how you feel, TRUST me. but just think, we are doing this at such a great time, we are young and have our whole lives ahead of us, so we are lucky to get this out of the way, rather than suffering for more years. we are going to live our twenties the way we were always meant to do so! id love to keep in touch, both of you, message me whenever!

my pre op diet consists of protein shakes for breakfast and lunch and 6-8oz protein and veggies for dinner..not bad but no diet is fun! they said you have to lose 10-20 pounds before surgery or they wont do it, something about they dont want you insides to be as fatty? i dont know...i just know i have to lose 10 pounds, but it should be easy to do that on such a strict diet.

my pre op diet starts tomorrow not looking forward to it but on the bright said that means on 14 days until surgery! woo hoo

Well I have 16 days until my surgery date which is June 10, 2011! I am sooo excited but the anxiety freak inside my head still keeps freaking me out. I worry that something will happen and it will get pushed back or something! I don't even think its really hit me yet either. I am 22 years old and live in Houston, Texas. I started thinking about the lapband after i finished cosmetology school in June of 2010, but never thought of it as something that i would actually do. Trying to find a job in an industry that is all about beauty when you feel like an ugly fat cow is not easy. I have always been the girl with the pretty face, but I always took that as she has a pretty face but.... which doesnt make me feel any better about it. My whole life has been about obsessing over my weight. It has taken away so much from me. I would love to go to the river with all my friends and drink beer all day and get tan, but there is NO way in hell that i would EVER get in a bathing suit in front of them. I wont even lay out with my mother, who is the least judgemental person on the planet. I havent even told my friends that I am getting this surgery. The only people that know are my mom and dad, and one friend who is 15 years older than me. I don't know why I am so embarressed about it, but I am. I have always been like that when on diets, I never liked talking about them. My best friends to this day are still the same friends that I had in high school. I was always very popular and the fun girl to hang out with, which I think is why I am so uncomfortable telling my friends about this, because they all have the perfect bodies and gorgeous and just wouldn't understand. Everytime i hear one of them talking about going on a diet or need to work out I want to slap them and say you have NO idea what its like to NEED to go on a diet. This surgery really will change my life. There are so many things that I want to do that I can't do now because of being fat. I want to go out to eat without wondering if the booth is going to be super small, or if the chairs are going to have arms and I have to squeeze in it. or go outside and sweat to death in the Texas heat because I refuse to wear anything to show skin because im so modist because I'm fat. I know this is rambling on and going from one place to the other, but it feels good to just write it all out, even if noone reads it.

mick-thank you for your encouragement. choselife-yes i am going to true results in houston! my doctor is dr hollis, i havent even met him yet though . my pre op appointment is June 1 and i think he was the doctor at the seminar which if so, he was nice. my patient advocate which i LOVE is cindy, she really has been so great for me and has made me feel a lot better about the whole process! did you go to true results, and if so who did you have? im a little over 300 right now. congrats on losing so much! it really encourages me to read all the success stories, i really hope i can follow in your footsteps! hopefully-thank you that makes me feel better about it! congrats to your weight loss, thats so great!

wow! i hope ill be saying the same next year, congrats!

I am getting banded by Dr. Hollis at True Results June 10th! Would love to have people to talk to about it.

Hi befree! I am going through True Results in Houston as well and I can tell you they have been absolutley AMAZING. They really care and help you with everything and make you feel SO comfortable, which with me is big because I didnt go to a doctor since 2007 because it makes me so uncomfortable. If you are paying out of pocket, you basically go to the seminar, do the blood work and ekg, and any other test they think you might need if they have a concern and then you are scheduled. Its quick!

I am 22 as well and like you and more2love, i have also been overweight my entire life. my junior and senior year of high school i got down to about 150 bbut for all the wrong reasons. im now bigger than ive ever been and i am getting banded on june 10th, and i still am in shock that this is finally happening. i have had so many mixed emotions about the whole thing. the only people that know are my parents (who are the BEST because they are paying for everything and are totally supporting me through this) and one good friend who is also hoping to get the lapband. my best friends dont know, my own brother doesnt even know! i dont know why i am so secretive about it but as of now its kind of embarressing for me. i just cant imagine how different my life is going to be and i am so looking forward to it. i want to do the things that normal 22 year olds get to do! i want to lay out and drink margaritas, go ride roller coasters, freaking FLY somewhere without the anxiety of be stuffed in a seat for hours, go out to resturants without googling them first to see if the chairs are itty bitty with arms that my fat butt has to squeeze in, to go shopping at normal stores, to no longer be just the girl with the pretty face! people who arent overweight will just never understand all the extra anxietys and challenges we go through, and im ready to put them all in my past! id love to keep in touch with you guys! Lauren Houston, TX

hey girls! im getting banded june 10th, and would love to have people to compare and share our journeys! isnt this exciting!??!?!

wow congrats to all of you that have lost so much! i really hope i have as much success as you guys! im getting banded june 10th and i still dont think it has hit me yet! i cant wait to start living life and quit watching everyone else from the sidelines!

Good luck to you as well! Feel free to message me if you ever have anymore questions, I know I would always ask people a million questions in the waiting room.