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Hi Everyone, I have lost 5 kgs in the nine days I have been on Optifast!:clap2: It has been so hot and I have bben walking everywhere. Proud of myself, but I am still a fatty boombah!:biggrin1: Susannah

Hi Jean, I am on day 9 of Optifast and I have lost 5 kilograms (11 pounds) in that time.:clap2: Susannah

Hi All, hey Babygrl I am on day 9 of Optifast and it is going ok. My tip is that the chocolate shake is yummier than the Vanilla. We don't have the strawberry variety here in Australia. Check out the bars and soups for variety. Good on ya champ!:biggrin1: Susannah

Gday, You will get there soon Bronnie. Your apponitment is in weeks! Susannah

Gday Gals, My Costs 2006 Insurance premium $1200 12 month waiting period 2007 Insurance premium $1300 Surgery fee $3500 sleep Study $ 95 not claimable Surgeon consults $100 after claiming some back Dietician $60 not claimable Optifast $120 at chemist warehouse (Best price @ $40 per box) Respiratory physician was bulkbilled Plus lost days income at work for days lost attending appointments, as I am casually employed. Susannah

Hey, Good on ya Cindy,Baby,Kelsy and Mom!!!!! It doesn't matter what day we are getting banded, we are all getting the lassoo swung around our guts!:biggrin1: Susannah

Hey Maria, thanks for taking the time to post your tips. I am day seven on Optifast and so far so good. :biggrin1: Susannah

Hi All, Patti how awful for you. Don't they realize banding is the last resort for us all? We have all done dieting to death with no results. Hang in there. Tracy: Insurance companies:rolleyes: :cool: Ahhhhhh!!!! Susannah

Hi Girls, As I said previously this has been a long process for me, basically having first considered it in 2003. I started all the appointments last july, and I will be banded in a fortnight. It is important for me to get banded, but I just went with the flow re the appointments. Susannah

Hey, Just saw that my joining date for this site was February 2004! I have been thinking about getting banded since 2003. I take my time. Susannah

Hi Bronnie, You can only have the vegies that are allowed as per the list. I am coping with it so far, as I am determined to make it. Others have so I should be able to as well. I think it can't hurt to be on a liquid diet pre surgery. Someone may have a lower bmi but that may not mean that they don't have a fatty liver. I don't drink, and I ate more carbs than fried food. So who is to say my liver is any worse than that of others? Can't wait for more variety in the post op liquid phase! Just over two weeks to go till banding day. Susannah

Hi, I get a runny nose everytime I eat chillies! :eek: Susannah

Hi, what foods do you miss/can't stomache anymore? I think I can give up just about anything, but I am going to really miss bread! I love bread so much. Chocolate etc will be easy for me to give up. I think I got fat from eating lots of good continental food like breads, cheeses, cakes etc. Say it ain't so, no bread of any kind any more?! :eek: Susannah

Hey Bronnie, my surgeon charges $3500. Your surgeon might charge less. It differs probably. At the end of the day it is money well spent for all of us really. You can't put a price on your health. Susannah

Hey, I wonder how Jess (Parvathi) is? Last I heard she was on holiday. We have the same surgeon. Susannah

Hey fabulous February bandsters! Keep up the good work all. Tracy why do they make you see a psychologist over there? You know that you want and need the band, so why must you go through all of that? Susannah

Hi Girls, Anna and Loretta, I am pre op liquid diet on Optifast. Tara, Its probably wishful thinking re getting anything back! Susannah:biggrin1:

Hey Girls, I am day 5 of the liquid diet and I am doing very well with it. I think summer is the best time to do the liquid diet because you naturally want to eat less, and eat lighter foods. If I had to this in winter it would be harder, because I would be fanging for hot heavier foods. There is a silver lining in every cloud! LOL! Susannah

Hi Gang, I am on day 5 of the liquid diet and going gangbusters!:biggrin1: Susannah

Hi girlz! I read in the Herald Sun article yesterday that each patient gets 385.00 in a rebate from the surgery fee. So maybe I will get a little back from the $3500 I paid? Hope so. Susannah

My punctuation is terrible today! Wan't? What is that?!!!!!lol!!!:confused:

Hi ALL, Top idea Fee! I found the article interesting. I think Jacqui makes some very valid points. I really believe that each person must have their own light bulb moment, their own epipheny so to speak. I don't wan't to have a stroke or have a heart attack. I don't wan't to die young. I also have MS and last year I had a severe attack of it where I was having great difficulty walking. To look at me know you would never know it. I am in complete remission.I have one medical condition, I do not wan't any more. I also don't wan't to become a nagging former fattie. There is nothing worse than a former fattie or an ex smoker. People have to come to the decision by themselves. Susannah

Hi Bronnie, Not sure about your doc, But I think patients like us that also have additional health conditions such as MS get checked out more, namely the sleep tests. Your doc may not though. I had to wait several weeks for my sleep test, and then 2 weeks for the results. Susannah

Hi All, In a weird way I will be ready for the post op liquid phase because I will already have done 3 weeks of optifast. It may not be as much a shock to the system. Susannah

Hi Anna, Glad to her from you. I was wondering where you had been. Don;t worry about the Christmas binge, Just get up into that saddle again.:biggrin1: I am day 3 on 3 weeks of Optifast. How did you go with it? Any tips. Getting the lassoo put around me guts on 2/2/07:eek: Susannah