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Everything posted by sleeveorbust
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October Surgeries!!
i am doing the liquid diet too... i want my body to be ultra ready!!... the lower amount of complications that there can be due to my actions then i will do it... i just want to get this part on the road so that i can be on the other side and sitting on the losers bench!
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October Surgeries!!
Only 24 more days til Im sleeved.... im starting to realize its coming up soon.... i think im going to start pre op on the 11th so it will be almost 3 weeks on the pre op diet... is that too long?
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October Surgeries!!
im glad im not the only one that feels like they need to eat eat eat... before surgery!... but its a terrible feeling.. i have made the decision that next monday is when i will start the preop diet.... it will give me two weeks roughly til my surgery on the 1st... ugh.. im sorta dreading it.. but i know when i start that part.. i will be that much closer to the date... Im also keeping this from my family aside from my husband who is 100% behind me so i am getting nervous on how to keep this from them
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October Surgeries!!
when r you guys starting your preop diets?... I feel so out of control right now with food... I just eat whatever I crave because I feel like its my last chance.... Oh man I need some advice as to when I should make the switch?
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keeping your old stomach!
im totally glad im not alone!!!... i definitely dont want to make a stomach puppet out of it lol.. good one DougNichols!!! ... those plush organs are sooooo coool!!... I would love to have them ALL!!.. maybe i will just ask them to take some pictures or something.. i would love to have some connection i guess to the procedure i am undergoing.. i think thats the real motive here
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October Surgeries!!
OCTOBER 1ST!!!!!!! I am going to TJ ... and I can not wait... just wake me up when September ends!! LOL
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I'm on the Road to Onederland!! Who's with me?
I have 13lbs to go... I hope the pre op diet takes me there .. And as for the sleeve.. My ultimate happiness will be when I see a 13_ for my weight!! .. I will probably cry that day!
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keeping your old stomach!
lol i dont know what i was expecting... but i would like to see it for sure... i thought of getting a piece vacuum sealed as a sort of reminder of my choice to change my life LOL.. i sound like a total lunatic but i just wondered about that lmfao!
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keeping your old stomach!
Comic Sans MS"]This is probably the craziest question but are you able to keep part of your stomach that is taken out as sort of a souvenier of your surgery!? Im not Crazy but i just wondered if you could do that or not?
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10 months out and food BORES me a bit! Yay!
This type of post gives me hope and happiness... im glad to hear of your success and the way you feel towards food now is a dream for me now.. but a reality after Oct 1!!!!
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September sleevers wanted!
I am missing the september date by one day.... Oct 1 here!... this thread is helpful to me because i know that as all of u are getting sleeved day by day throughout Sept.. I will know that Im next!!! yay!
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4 Months Post Op
goodlife!!!.... You are doing amazing! I can't wait to start my process soon!!!.... I was just goingto say that probably when you have a stalemate from losing lbs I bet your still losing inches! So keep that in mind so that you won't get frustrated from what the scale is telling you!!... Congratulations on the new you! :thumbup1: all the best to you!
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Newbie
Welcome... This is definitely a great place to talk freely about anything to do with weight.. and the procedure.. i feel so comfortable here.. i hope you do too!
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Canadian Newbie
HAHA... mp8btpc.... now im really excited to meet dr P!!!!! lol... hopin4slv.. things will come together ... when you really want something badly.. the waiting feels like forevers!! haha...but I know that once your there and done... time will fly! <3
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Canadian Newbie
hopin4slv .... are you going through WLF??? I am ... and if you are have you gone to any of the meetings?
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Tomorrow is SLEEVE DAY!
ALL THE BEST WISHES!!!!!! hope u are doing well!
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Date set!!!! Financing apprvd!!!
thanks guys... i just felt like shouting it out... lol... YAY!!!!!!!!!!
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Date set!!!! Financing apprvd!!!
I just had to tell all of you that i have a date.... for Oct1!!!!!! im so excited that the financing went through and that all of these dreams for a better life are coming into a reality!!!!! i love this community and thanks for the great info that is here!!!!! preop diet starting soon.... :biggrin0:
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Canadian Newbie
its so comforting to hear that after other people check up on her... they see what a qualified and great doctora (hehe) she is!!... it makes me feel good about my decision to have her as my doctor!! And im sure Hopin4slv is with me on that one!!
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Canadian Newbie
^^^^^ hey girl... I am in the exact same boat as you!!!... im looking for a end of september date and im new here too!!!... and CANADIAN!! <3 hope that you get your date soon.. and when i get mine i will let you know... Pompa is who im using too!!
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Kaiser driving me crazy!!
i hope everything works out for you... i am self pay and so i dont know what its like to go through all of the insurance stuff but I hope that you get things worked out so that you can be sleeved!!! <3 best wishes!!
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IM NEW/ VIRGIN to all of this!!!!!!
thanks so much.. my husband has a bmi of 21 so he doesnt understand my issues but is trying his best to support me in all of this... and thats all i can ask for!!
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Good News Youngin's
great news.. lets just hope that it has to do with your age!!!!! im looking forward to getting sleeved!!!.. im 22
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3 and 1/2 months out..70 lbs down
AMAZING!!!! thanks for the encouragement by your success!!!!!
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Wanting Surgery
Those are the same prices that I got too... I am thinking that I will go at the end of Sept.. to beginning of OCt.!! .... I will probably go for the 10900 package because i just want to go there and not have to think about anything but getting the surgery done lol!!!