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I was also sleeved on 12/14 and experience none of what you are talking about. The only discomfort that I have is when I sit down, my left side bothers me. How are you doing with your weight and drinking? I just polished off 33 oz of Powerade Zero and fixing to do sip 8 oz of chicken broth. I am only down a pound which has me wondering but I know that it will soon start falling off. At least today someone told me that it looked like I lost weight!!

Has anyone purchased their protein shakes from Wal Mart? IF you did, what brand did you buy?

Tomorrow is my day!!!! I am so excited!!! Going home today to finish with the clothes and then to tidy up in the house!!

4 more days and I am getting soooo excited. Going to pack this weekend!!

Awesome!

Whoo Hoo!!!! I am going to be sleeved in 5 days!! I am getting so excited, nervous and scared all at the same time. I can't wait for 2011 to roll in for the new me to transform!!!

I am going to be off of work 3 weeks but I planned it like that also. I will be sleeved on 12/14/10 and go back to work on 1/3/11

I am going this weekend to get my Protein shake mix from GNC and wanted input on what others liked from GNC and if you got creative with your shakes.

My thoughts and prayers are with you!

Hi!! I am going to be sleeved on December 14 in Alexandria, La. I am getting nervous but excited all at the same time. I look forward to the support from the other December sleevers!!

sounds yummy....I am thinking that you could do this with the canned chicken breast also?

AWESOME!!! I can't wait to share my success with my sleeve sisters too...13 more days!!!

Keeping my fingers crossed!!!

Thoughts and prayer are going your way. I am getting geared up myself. 14 more days!!!

What kind of peanut butter did you use?

Congrats to you!!!!

For those of you who have already had the procedure done, I realize that it is going to be a life style change but sometimes life does get in the way and you have to eat out. Not to mention, going to a restaurant is something that my husband and kids enjoy doing as a family. So with that being said, how do you handle that? What do you normally look for when ordering? Or how about when the kids want to go to McDonald's for supper or lunch, how do you handle that?

$15,500 self pay for Alexandria, Louisiana. This includes all pre-op, counsling sessions and visits with him for 1 year and I met with him 3 times before I decided to schedule the surgery.

I completely understand where you are coming from. I have not been shopping for myself in a LONG time. It is just too depressing. This too we shall overcome and then it is going to be a fight to keep us out of the stores because we are going to be shopping so much!!! I am ready for my sleeve (12/14/10) and I know that it is the best decision/gift that I can give myself. Best wishes to you!!

I too, also wondered how I was going to handle the holidays, mainly Christmas and New Years. For Christmas what I have planned is to be the one who is going to make sure that all the kids are fed. Being that I will be just moving to the second phase of liquids, I am going to just busy myself with them. I don't think that anyone will notice. And then for Christmas Eve, we always have gumbo, so I could always just have the juice from the gumbo. Now for New Years day, again, I am going to busy myself with the kids. By then I will be well into "mushies" and I would hope that i would be able to at least have some black eye peas (please correct me if I am wrong) and possible some sweet potatoes that are from a casserole? Breakfast will no be a problem, as I hardly eat with my IL's for breakfast anyway and I can always use my shakes as my breakfast. For supper, I will still be full from my "big" lunch and possible just get by with another shake.

I will!! Best of luck to you....

I am 33 and getting this done on Dec 14, 2010. Congrats to you!!!

Welcome! This is a great place for information!! Best of Luck to you!!!

Whoo Hoo!!! Congrats to yoU!!!

I completely agree with what you said. Change is something that is hard for all of us (I know for myself.) but is something that I know that I have to do. There is no choice for me, I want to feel better about myself, I want to not have my knees ache when I climb the stairs and I want a better me. I think that any weight loss journey is hard but I am determined and dedicated and I will over come this.