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Wish me luck! so nervous but excited!! any last minute ideas of things to pack for the hospital stay?

Thanks everybody for your good points! I am so not going to tell them. The more I analyze this the more I realize if I tell them I would have to be prepared for all the friends and family, cousins, 4th cousins and dog groomer to know since they are horrible at keeping things to themselves. I watched my mom get pretty beat up by rude comments that some of her "friends" made when she told some of them she got sleeved. She kept the secret for 4 years now I think I'm just going to do the same with some people to avoid unnecessary drama.

I should add ----Only reason why I haven't really told them already is my mom had it done 4 years ago and they had the nastiest response and rude things to say to me. Her sister had major complications during gastric BYPASS which she doesn't know there is a difference so she said my mom was taking the "easy way out" and that it's an extremely dangerous and unnecessary surgery. Even with MIL's type two diabetes she still eats whatever she wants including desert every night so she wouldn't understand the whole me wanting to be healthy part. I don't want to be judged or for her to think I'm being irresponsible since I have two kids under 3 and if something god forbid goes wrong...... but like somebody said I don't want her to find out and be mad I didn't tell them either.

I have been debating telling my inlaws about my surgery. My family and close friends know but it feels like I'm almost hiding something from them not telling them. DH's family except for him and his brother are all morbidly obese and proud of it, everything about them revolves around food. Anyway, right now they think I'm just been on the liquid diet and having surgery to fix my hiatal hernia which is only half a lie I suppose. It's kind of funny because the 12 days of liquid diet I've been on so far we visited them twice and both times she made a chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream which is my favorite and she NEVER makes when they all knew I was on this diet. I sipped on my Protein shake and watched them all eat and acted like it didn't bother me. I can see just from that they wouldn't be much support if they think I'm on a liquid diet for having to have something repaired idk how they would act if they knew I elected to have this surgery...... what would you do??? what do you tell people if they ask why you won't have another cheeseburger or hot dog (because I know they will)?

Thanks everybody! Hubby still calls me beautiful but I want to be called SEXY again! Sleeve is 25th and I can't wait to start my new life

Has anyone's significant other admitted they find them more attractive after the weight was lost?

It sucks doesn't it!? How much did you lose so far? I lost 11lbs, 3in off my stomach and 2in off my thighs so far. And congrats on the surgery being so close!!! Mine is Wednesday the 25th and I can't believe after all this waiting it's finally here!!!

My Dr has my preop diet pretty strict. All I can have is 3 protein shakes a day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sugar free jello and chicken broth for snacks 2 servings of each a day no fruit or veggis which I am craving soooo bad. It SUCKS but by day 3 (at least for me) it got much easier and the cravings went away.