Anakin Jay

Good luck time lord!! you got this!!!!

Thank you for posting this. My surgery is tomorrow, and this is my biggest fear. Getting depressed that I can't eat as much as I want to. But I know EXACTLY that feeling.. a few hours after I've ate a large pizza and family sized bread sticks, I think... god that wasn't worth it, not I feel like crap and I'm getting fatter. I'm glad to hear that the process seems to be reversed with VSG... sad in the moment, but then happy and proud later.

Just FYI, raw meat is fine to eat. I'm not saying the Paleo diet is a raw meat diet, but I just wanted to chime in. The *only* reason we need to cook our meat now is due to the disgusting mechanized way super markets slaughter their cows. The process ends up with a ton of germs and bacteria on the outside of the meat, so store bought meat needs the OUTSIDE of it cooked well enough to kill those germs. That's why you can eat a rare steak. As long as the surface is cooked enough to kill the germs from processing, you're fine. Note: you should NEVER eat raw hamburger from a store for this reason, the germs are all mixed up in the meat... and this is why it's a bad idea to ever order a rare hamburger.. in fact, most restaurants won't serve them to you less than medium.

36 hours from now I'll be waking up and getting ready to head into surgery. I check in Tuesday at 7, and under the knife at 8. Nervous but excited!! Ready to get this over with.

My surgery is Tuesday at 8am so essentially 4 more days. The cold feet are really starting to set in... ><

me me me! 6 more days!

Our health insurance company sent us 3 or 4 dozen sugar cookies for Christmas... 0.o

Count me in!

Day 3 of liquids for me... Chicken Broth has become the highlight of my day... lol. I may actually start licking bullion cubes pretty soon, the salt cravings are almost uncontrollable.

It's 11:26pm, and my pre-op liquid diet starts tomorrow.... of the mass of "food funeral" food I bought, I still have two frozen pizzas left... debating staying up all night just so the food doesn't go to waste

Protein helps a ton with making you not feel hungry. If you're allowed, maybe drink more Protein Shakes, or maybe take some of those protein shot things. My liquid diet starts tomorrow, but I did an 8 day nothing but Water fast a few years ago in one of my attempts to lose weight. For me at least, the physical hunger went away around day 3, and the mental hunger went away at day 5... day 7 was when I *really* started feeling weak.. so plan accordingly

You can see my progress below as well.... start to finish is a little over 6 months for me. It really just depends on your insurance, and what they require.... I would say the "average" insurance requires a 3-6 month diet period.

Guess I get to christen this new forum, really empty in here! I got approved for my surgery, and I'll be sleeved January 24th! 2 week liquid diet starts sunday!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got the call this morning, I'M APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! January 24th I start rocking the sleeve incredibly nervous and excited at the same time... ><

haha... The lady at my surgeons office says she calls insurance every other day to check on the status... I guess they know if they sit on it they have to keep dealing with her, so they push it through faster and YES IT IS!! That's my battle cry for when I get nervous about surgery, or when I don't want to work out... I remind myself that I'm going to turn "From FATT to FETT" !!

best of luck!! congrats!!

Just had all my info submitted for final approval, why do I feel like I just passed a note to the popular girl in my 7th grade class asking her to the dance, and hoping she circles "Yes" before she hands it back to me?

The thing about the juggernaut is "Nothing can stop him!" So in a way... January Juggernauts are Unstoppable! Really works well imo

Haha yep sorry, I'm a boy... we ruin everything

hahaha.. I love it... even though I don't think most people would understand...

wow you look great!!! On behalf of men everywhere, I'd like to say: ... "How *you* doin?"

Not sure if this is healthy or not, but I just had all my paperwork submitted for approval, so I'm 2.5-4 weeks away depending on how long they take... and I'm not afraid in the slightest. It's not that I'm being brave, far from it, but my weight causes me so many issues... I have to sleep with a mask on my face hooked up with a tube pumping air into me... I have to take an entire pharmacy's worth of pills every day.. I can't stand up and walk for more than 10 seconds without severe leg pain from sciatica from a herniated disc. I can't fit into booths as restaurants. I can't fit into seats on an airplane or bus. I have to buy all my clothes from specialty stores. I realize that dying in the OR is a very real possibility with *any* surgery... but I'd *rather* be dead than keep living like this... And I find it very comforting that no matter the outcome, This old me and this old way of life is ending. I don't *want* to die, so don't everyone go forwarding my name to emergency hotlines lol.. I'm just saying my fear of dying is a lot less than my fear of my life staying the way it is now.

I haven't got my date yet, but all my paperwork was submitted for approval today. It's likely that I'll be part of your gang Speaking of, we need a catchy gang name... Like the july sleevers are the july firecrackers... any ideas?

When did you guys start getting the desire for a food funeral? I'm 1-2 months away from my surgery and it just hit me.... >< I feel like ths is waaay too early.