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Thank you Liberated Sleeve!! Your support tonight has been Immeasurable! You really helped save my mental health I will keep you in my thought and prayers on the 5th and I hope to hear from you on the boards that you are doing just fine!

Geez I never thought of that!! THat's a great idea!! Thank you both so much! This has really helped calm me down! I was so bad I was even considering packing the scale to take with me to hotel the night before just to make sure I was ok LOL! I just have to stop stressing and know trust that this will happen!!

I was 270. Which is crazy b/c the day before I was 267. Darn this TOM

Lordservnt, I understand what you are saying. I am mentally prepared. I've been prepared for months now. I know that this is hard work. I'm just really frustrated that my hormones cause such a huge flux in my weight that its possible to have my surgery cancelled. I can see how me being accountable would be a concern, I totally understand that. I won't try to make justify maintaining my weight while waiting for a surgery date because it will all just sound like excuses. Picking it all up and moving forward at this point. I've vented and I feel much better

Hey everyone, Here is my problem. My doc told me I have to be at 266 or below by my surgery date 3/6. I'm currently 267. I've been on the liquid diet for 4 days and lost a minimal amount of weight. I've used Medifast before and lost 8 lbs my first week. Should I do medifast for 7 days then 3 days of clears before the surgery? either way I plan on using a laxative 2 days prior to get out anything 1. I'm scared that the medifast won't allow my liver to shrink as it should. 2. I'm really scared that even if I maintain at 267 or drop to 265, he will cancel the surgery thinking I was being noncompliant. I know some of you are sick of reading about this (sorry!) but I'm really stressing out and I just want some input from a person who currently doesn't need Xanex (me) LOL. thanks for putting up with me!

Thanks sassygirl06! Dorrie, my date is 3/6. I don't work harder when I'm angry. I just needed a minute to vent. I'm stressed but I won't let it keep me down. I've been on a liquid diet for 4 days and I lost 4 pounds. I will use a flush the day before to get the extra stuff out. I realize it may dehydrate me, but they will pump me full of IV fluids anyway, so I'm willing to take the risk I'm hoping he was just trying to scare me and wouldn't do a thing like cancel surgery because I'm 267 instead of 266 and Thanks for the encouragement. Sometimes you just need to vent, ya know. I'm all smiles now

It's not really about the liquid pre-op diet or the fact that my husband has chosen to cook ribs for dinner ( my favorite). I'm pissed at my surgeon right now. This is how I think. If I could loose weight on my own and keep it off, I wouldn't be getting this surgery. It took me months to lose the required 10lbs to qualify for surgery. And to my credit, I've held that weight off plus or minus 2 since November. Ok, next. I gain massive amounts of weight with my period. Always have. 5-8 lbs at least. I have PCOS, the wacky hormones come with the territory. The morning of pre-op I was 270. and severely bloated. I told him that. and do you know what he tells me??? "If you aren't at your pre-op weight of 266 on the day of surgery, we won't operate." Iwent from to "you're kidding right?" to to and finally i'm at WTF You're a physician, why would you put more stress on me knowing my issues with weight and that stress increases the amount of cortisol in your body, hampering weight loss efforts?? Why the hell would you say that to me? And for the past 4 days I've done nothing but obsess over what I eat, what I drink. I swear, I weigh myself every time I go to the bathroom to pee! Better to have said, Hey, good job maintaining your weight. I understand your period is coming and I'm sure you're a little stressed out from your upcoming surgery. Just stick to your pre-op diet, and you should loose extra pounds before your surgery. Wouldn't that be great? you could jump start your loses with the pre-op diet! I'm getting surgery so that I don't have to stress like this anymore. I should be entering into this surgery as calm as possible, not worried up to the morning of if I'm going to be cancelled. The more I think about it the more I get....

My surgeon told me that 50-60% is good and anything more than that is icing on the cake. He said this is usally achieved within the first 3-4 months. Just an opinion. I don't have any stats or studies to back any of this up.

I love reading intelligent dialouges and discussions. I don't have any input to this thread as I'm still learning and I have not been sleeved, but it has been a real eye opener. I'm struggling at this moment with my pre-op diet and have had some of the same questions floating in my head that you have addressed. Thank you for sharing Crosswind.

HI group members~~ It's been kind of quiet so I wanted to try and open the discussion up a bit. Let's introduce ourselves, tell where we are in our process, pre-op diets, etc and use this thread as a motivational tool for our upcoming surgeries I'll start. I'm 4 days into my pre op diet, scheduled 3/6/12 with Dr. Mann at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia. Right now I'm taking it minute by minute then hour by hour. That is the best I can do right now.

Update!! My husband decided he wants to cook ribs Day 4 of my pre op diet LOL. Super I swear sometimes I want to strangle him.

Missmarbe, Your welcome! andi0120, good luck Wednesday!! I'll be right behind you on the 6th! This site is wonderful and I've met so many supportive people. It's saved me from insanity a couple of times since no one but my husband knows about this surgery, and sometimes he isn't the best influence. Make sure you post how everything goes. I look forward to reading it.

Inspiration!! Congratulations to you!!

Thank you Harmonic and verysoon for the positive responses. Harmonic, I wish you the best of luck and a speedy recovery!! verysoon, I'm happy all is well for you. wishing you much success with your sleeve!

Whew! Ok that sounds so much better!

I've always said, I will not listen to anyone giving me advice who hasn't been through the same journey. I hope that my story will add some credibility to my posts and inspire someone considered WLS. I'm on a quest to find the woman I lost years ago. She's somewhere in this body, I know that, I just haven't seen here in almost a decade. I'm almost 300 pounds on a 5 foot 7 frame. My family medical history is like Wal-Mart, you name it someone has it. I want to break the cycle of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. . I can't get back the years I've already lost, but I can make the years I have left that much better. I have a carb addiction, disillusion about the amount of food I should be eating, and an emotional eating habit. I was taught as a child to clean my plate, I remember at 8 years old looking forward to going to my grandma's because she always had pound cake made, and dinner consisted of meat, a few veggies, heaping mounds of carbs (rice/potatos) and rolls. 20 Years I've been addicted to carbs. My mom and I could go to a restaurant and finish an entire basket of rolls before our food came and still eat everything on our plate, plus another basket of rolls. Needless to say, I've never had a good example when it came to eating. Fast forward through middle school, when at 5"7 and 130 lbs I was the tallest girl in my entire school. Talk about a complex. At 9 I thought I was fat. Junior high, I'm still tall and muscular but everyone else is catching up. Rumors start that I'm taking steroids. Hence another complex about being "thick" and muscular. High School, the Revolution Years. I rebelled against EVERYTHING! Stress at home= emotional eating. I remember coming home from school and eating half a loaf of bread, toasted with butter and jelly because it made me feel better. Nutrition? What's that? It wasn't taught at our school. Lunch for 4 years, FOUR YEARS, consisted of chili cheese fries with extra cheese and sweet and sour dipping sauce, juice or soda, and some other high carb or fried food. FOUR. YEARS. I do remember a salad but it was far and few in-between. I think back on this and I cringe. What the heck are we doing to our kids??? My saving grace was band. The amount of practice we did counteracted some of the weight gain. I stayed around 180-200 lbs. College, the fittest years of my life. I decided to major in Nutrition, the one thing I had no knowledge of. Freedom to come and go as I pleased means more time in the gym. HBCU band practice consisted of intense PT at 5 am and intense practice from 3-7. I was at my fittest ever. I wouldn't believe it myself if I didn't have pics to prove it. Grad school I continued my good gym habits, but even a nutrition degree can't combat the psychological condition of emotional eating. I started gaining weight. Then I got pregnant. My weight shot up to 230 with the first pregnancy and miscarriage and I gained 20 more from the stress. Pregnant again at 260 with the help of pills. I went up to 285. Lost 20 and have been stuck at 270 for 3 years. This brings us to today. 10 days from VSG surgery and positive about where my life is heading. I'm not one for sharing a lot of personal information, but I will try to keep this "blog" updated as I progress through. I need to learn how to let people in and break down this brick wall that I've built.

Gorgeous! The change in your pictures is beyond awesome!! Keep up the good work!

That sounds really hardcore! How long is your pre-op diet? No food at all? Not even Clear liquids?

Carlos and Mickeymouse I WISH I had your pre op diet

Wow this is a lot of great information!!! You are awesum!!!!!

I started my 2 week diet Tuesday and I'm DYING! LOL I thought it was supposed to get easier??! I was bad and had some kale but I swear I won't do it again. It has too many carbs! But mentally I'm better. I think I just needed to chew something. Good luck to everyone!!

My husband has always been supportive in everything I do and our relationship is strong (13 years together, 6 married) but he has said he is worried about me leaving him for someone else when I get smaller. I'm aware that he has his own demons with weight and eating and maybe he thinks I will evolve without him. I try to make him understand that he can benefit from my surgery as well by mimicking my eating habits and going into ketosis. I make sure to remind him daily that I'm not going anywhere

Omygoodness I'm crying! That was beautiful!! Congratulations to you for your success and for raising such a wonderful human being!

I haven't been sleeved yet, but I'm on my pre op diet and I've been doing ISOPURE Protein drinks as monalisa1010 said and at 40 gram s of protein per serving, its a great save. Also sodium free broth by Herb-ox. Those have helped me. Good luck!

Great job! keep moving forward!