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Okay so you made me tear up at work, I sure do get some weird looks when I do that!!! That really was a heart felt post and I feel you are going to do so well with this because you have such good reasons and motivations to do it. As for the pre op diet I was am on a 1200 cal low carb low fat hight protien diet until 10 days before then at 10 days I have to start a 4 protien shake and a low carb veggie salad with lemon juice. I do think it is a good idea for you to start your own pre op diet because the healthier you are when you go into surgery the faster and better you will recover and the safer it will be to be on the table. Gool Lucj with everything, sorry to hear about your fam and keep us posted on your journey

I am so in the I want everything mood especially since my 10 day liquid diet starts in 8 days but if I gain any weight before that my dr will cancel in operation so I just have to be good no matter what!!!

I dont know if you have left yet but dont forget your chapstick! Good luck! let us know everything goes

Thats excelent news! Xenical is a weight loss drug right? Why would they keep you on that when you are planning to go have VSG? I would think that they would want you on a drug for the shortest time possible. Well have fun with your apts and keep us posted

I agree not such a fan but I think that the view new content button on the top right is like the "new post" button

I agree I miss the old site. Maybe it will just take a while to get used to but things just dont line up on the screen correctly its kinda like some one was coloring out side the lines(I duno might be my pc but???) I also miss the new post button but I think I found a way around that. There are more things I an not a huge fan about but I will reserve those thoughts untill I become more firmiliar with the new format and maybe some of them will go away.

My doc prescribes Prilosec solutabs, he is super causious of obstruction so I cant take any pills with out cutting and crushing them I just hope they dont taste to horrible

thats on my list for the first week of clears

you could make it like a tappas type restaurant so that all people could go there but then have a special mushy/liquid menu for us

Awsome Job Congrats! You can hear (well I guess read) the excitement that you have and how pround you are in your post!

ms lisa you should deffinatly give your doc a call they are all so different. Mine has me doing 1200 cal low carb high protien up untill 10 days before then I start with 4 protien shakes plust one low carb veggie salad with lemon juice yippy!!!!!

Yup me I deffinatly get them and I totaly hope they go away after surgery... cuz that would be awsome!!!

I had to ware ankle weights plus drink a ton a h2o before one of my apts because I had lost some before I was offically aproved and it worked so that is deffinatly an option. But dont give up you will never regret fighting for what you want/need but you regret giving up!

If you have questions that you want answered that of course it is worth seeing a surgen, But if 26 is your bmi you are fairly close to normal so they may not do the surgey but at least you will have your answeres that you need anot the what ifs that will drive you crazy good luck

Wow you truly look like a different person very inspiring! Great job and I am sure you will do great getting to ware you want to be!

I am sorry that your family treated you like that, I agree with every opne else that they may just be worried about you and with the stress of your brothers cancer it may have just been to much emotion for them to handle and it unfortunay got thrown back at you. I also agree that you shoud try to inform them more about the procedure. When I told my mother what I was doing she was a bit hesitent and gave a little push back as to may be there is another way, but after I showed her that I had done my research and shared that information with her and she did some thinking back to my strugke with weight all my life she is TOTTALY on board with this and is flying out to be with me during the surgey. Well any way good luck with your family I wish the best for you and your brother and I hope that come around and relize this is in your best intrest and in the long run theirs since you will be able to take better care of them when you are healthy and living longer.

Thanks for both your replies, I think I will arange for some one to pick her up at the airport since I just dont know what it will do to me!!!! Dansha, they want me to sip on the two bottles through out the day. so I guess this is going to be an all day proess. and as for the two bottles I guess they just want me completly empty. I have an apt with him tomorrow I will have to ask why the two bottles. I do hope that they dont expect me to have a bm before I am aloud to leave the hospital, cuz I just dont think there will be anything left at that point:wink0: One thing they did ask was to make sure we did not take the cherry flavor as the red dye would worry the nurses and dr's :thumbup1:

Any one else have to take 2 bottles of Magnesium citrate the day before their surgery??? I have never taken it but I have been told by other that one bottle will seariously clean you out! So two kinda scares me! :scared0: I was suposed to pick some one up at the air port that day and I think I am kinda scared to leave the house. I mean all I will have in me is protien shakes and lettuce for 10 days prior, and I have been told that when you drink it, when you feel you have to go then there is no waiting you have to go right then and there better be a bathroom near by!!!!:bored0: If there is any one out there with experience on weather I will be able to leave the house or if I need to fine some one to pick the person up so that I can stay leashed to the toilet I would greatly apreciate the feed back so I can do the plaing ahead of time. Thanks

I will be getting sleeved on Oct 21st cant wait starting to go through all the crazy emotions, excited, scared, anxious..... But most deff not looking forward to the 10 day liquid diet before Yikes!!!! I

I have not been put on meds yet but I do have hashimotos which is an autoimune disease where my body is destroying my thyroid and will have to eventually be put on meds to control it. Some weeks I can tell that my levels are off becasue I am extremly tired all the time and others i am full of energy. I go every six months to have blood work done but since the tests usualy land on a day that I am feeling pretty good they come back on the low side of normal so the doc wont put me on anything. So I have allready mentaly prepared my self to be a slow looser do to the hypo weeks. Good luck with your testing, and getting the last 20 off!

My doc puts you on a low carb high protein 1200 cal diet when you first see the nut so mine will be about three months then 10 days before you have to do 4 low carb shakes and 1 veggie salad with lemon juice on it and nothing after midnight the day beofore you go in. let me tell you I am not looking forward to those ten days. but if i dont do it and shrink my liver he may not continue with the surgery or he may have to go open instead of lap!

Congrats on getting the apeal and going into surgey tomorrow, Good luck and please keep us posted!!

I have a date of OCt 21 at the moment I just have to keep my fingers crossed that my money will be here by then!!!!

Those guidelines are not for people with the sleeve, if you try to stuff your self with 1200 cal in the very begining you are going to hurt your self or make your self sick. most DR's and NUTS recomend 600 to 800 for new sleeve patients. Good luck and be carefull

Unjury has a protein chicken broth and tomato soup, and Isopure can also be ordered online. Calgarygirl do you have GNC's in Canada? they sell clear protien in the form of bullets and isopure. Good luck with your seraching!