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Best of luck!!! Congratulations!<BR>

:Banane44:Yah!!!!!!!!!!! For you I am so happy for you, I cant wait to hear all about it !!!What a blessing you stuck it threw and now you are on your way to healthier happier and thinner you!!!!!!! Congratulations on the 19lbs down- Amazeing you are an inspiration to me so thanks so much for all your wonderful posts and words of encourgment!!!

Awesome great job!!!! keep us posted on how it goes on thursday!!!

Great to hear that you are doing so well, I cant give you really any advice I am still in my pre-op stage....I just wanted to congratulate you on 5.5 lbs down!!! Great job!

Thanks so much Ladies I sure hope it gets easier, I too took some pictures this weekend to help me out like wow you can do this!! These pictures are not what I want to continue to look like, i did the whole tank and shorts pic and it wasnt pretty thats for sure. So thanks for the encouragment it really seems to help when you have someone that can really relate and feel your pain!!

Great post, its wonderful to hear about how much progress you have made, and your doing well. Its always so inspireing to read positive posts like this so thanks!!!

Ok Im day 3 and I feel so sick of the bars and the shakes already!! Please help its really hard, gosh food is everywhere!!! Its not on my list but does anyone know can i eat hard candy if its sugar free??? Im really not sure what I was expecting but this is pretty hard to handle...

I have to do the pre-op for 2 weeks, and im not going to lie its hard but today is day 2 and hopeing every day after this it gets easier. My surgery date is Oct. 7th!! Good Luck to you too!!!

Thanks so much!! I love the 'we need to eat to live and not live to eat' thanks I so needed that!!!

I am only on day 2 and wow its hard, very hard I can so understand what you are saying my whole life is revolved around food....<BR>

I am on day 1 of my pre-op diet. Shakes and bars, shakes and bars and more shakes and bars....I am actually doing ok, But its so amazeing how your mind works when you get something taken away from you, food is my life its my everything and it seems now like wow I will have a lot of time on my hands when you dont revolve your life around food. Its only about 2:30 in the afternoon so i have some time to go before I can say I comepleted day 1 but eh I made it this far I hope and pray the Lord gives me the will power to do this for the rest of my life, to make healthy choices and be the person I have always wanted to be, no more weight is going to hold me back now!!!

I start on Friday I have surgery on Oct. 7th so i am right with you!! Its a great inspiration to like the others have said Im sure its not going to be easy at all but when its done then we can say yes we did it on to another day!! I need support too!!! Take care and let me know how day 1 goes ok!

Great job keep up the good work!!

Best of luck to you, I know I am going to have a hard time with the 2 weeks seeing I still have to cook for my kids and hubby but like you I have wanted this for a long time and darn it I am so close that I hope and pray i can do this!!!!

Looking for some input on how many days people took off of work after they had the surgery, I know everyone is diffrent and heals in thier own way but Im just looking for an average thats all. I want to be able to give my work enough notice. Also the pr-op diet mine consists of protien shakes and a protien bar is everyones diffrent I read about others haveing broth and jello and things of that nature??? Looking for some answers thats all...I feel I can read and read and read more and still learn more from everyones blogs, I love it!!!

Amazing progress!!! You look great can you share how you did it all, Im a newbie....

Good Luck!!!

Anyone out there from WI getting banded soon, just curious if there is and if so where is the surgery takeing place. I have never actually met someone that has got the band done recently, I go on Oct 7th and I really love reading all the posts it has taught me alot already!!! Im scared and nervouse all at the same time!! Have a great day!

WOW Congratulations to you, down 70lbs in 2 months!!! Great job to you!

Thanks so much everyone, I hope by the time I have my surgery i will know if I want to tell others or not....For now I am just working hard at the gym and rideing my bike. Love to ride bikes! I am more worried about the 2 weeks pre surgery then anything I think....

Wow Congratulations on your weight loss any secrets you would like to share with me??? I am getting banded on Oct 7th and I am hopeing for the great results you have had, awesome job!!!!! I know you said you are 20 and looking for younger members I am 32 and very excieted to start my journey!

Wondering what others do as far as telling family and friends, do you tell or not to tell. My husband knows and then only 2 other people in my life know Im wondering does it give you more accountability if lots of people know or is just all about me and I just work on it on my own and see how it goes?? Im so excieted I sort of want to talk about it to others but like I have learned in the classes and program I am in some may think I am takeing the "easy" way out....which oh if they only knew how hard its been to even get this far in the program and Im sure it will get harder before it gets better but thats ok I am so ready for the outcome and am so ready to get rid of this weight that I have carried for so long....So to tell or not to tell???

So how has the weight loss been for you almost has been a month for you??

Brand new at this blog thing but I am happy I found this site, I am haveing surgery Oct 7th sometimes feeling scared, excieted and so happy all at the same time. I have been heavy my whole life and its so excieting to think of what life will be like for me as I start to loose weight. I read alot of these blogs on a daily basis so I thought maybe to check in and indroduce myself. Im sure I will have lots to share as I begin the pre opp liqued diet and the durring and the post opt too. Anyone recently been banded or maybe being banded in Oct. like me??