Gurlygirlrcr80

I can't wait to look like a professional business woman and look "together"

I can't wait to look like a professional business woman and look "together"

I am in Aurora also and went to Good Samaritan in Downers Grove on March 6th. Had a great experience there

I'm very excited for you all coming in tomorrow good luck and I hope you have a flawless day!!!!!

I'm very excited for you all coming in tomorrow good luck and I hope you have a flawless day!!!!!

I use Body Fortress from Walmart (dry) and found it to be very good. I use vanilla flavored and mix it with fruit in the blender usually for Breakfast. Then I use the chocolate flavored with a little Decaf coffee (or just plain) to drink. I am able to use skim milk (not lactose intolerant). Each dry scoop adds 27g of Protein not including the milk. I still have a shake or two a day, my surgery was in December.

I COMPLETELY understand. I met this guy that ive been playing volleyball this year with since September...I knew he had a girlfriend and once I friended him on FB and he found out I was having this surgery...he has been all over me!! He's so excited about how I'm doing and he said to me that when I was thin (in my college days that are on FB) that I could have been miss America....I was like...what r u saying about how I look now cuz I think I'm still hot! My feelings of it is that I am starting a new life...who says I want old toys. Keep your options open and make him suffer.

I am in Illinois, but not the IV area. I am in Aurora and scheduled to have surgery on 1/21/13!

Lost 8lbs so far since surgery day. It seems to be slowing down at the moment, but I'm not to worried. I'm only on day 5. My physical activity will pick up in the coming days and will be able to lose more.
Best of luck to all the peeps having surgery on Monday.
I have been so lucky to not experience any pain, so I wish you all a similar experience.

Yes, I agree with every reply. I'm grateful to you guys for hearing me out. I think I'm just not going to stress about it. I'm not going to be around anyone that makes me doubt myself and I know that at 400lbs or 100lbs, I'm amazing and if he doesn't, his fcking loss.

5 days until my surgery and this weekend will be my "food Funeral" weekend to eat (but not pig out) on all the yummie scrumpciously uplifting foods I can get my hands on.
RIP you freaking delicious mouth watering obnoxiously fat Ass food. You will be missed but ALWAYS remembered.
Moment of silence please! LOL

I called my 2nd gown my Wonder Woman cape lol

Me too! Don't have to worry about holding the gown closed

U know I'm surprised they don't do a "cleansing" of the rectum before lol

Yeah not everyone has to do bowel prep. It wasn't bad but it was helpful to not have to go for a few days after and it makes it a "cleaner" area for the drs to work but its all up to them if u do it.

So, I completed my first 5K since surgery last May. Did it in 44:31 only ran about a third of it and walked the rest. This time last year I never imagined myself doing this. It was amazing. I actually felt like crying afterwards, but being the big badass I think I am....i held it back. So here are a few pics of before the surgery and on 5K day! And lucky me the beautiful girl next to me is my soon to be wife on April 14th!

Note to self: you are 11 days post-op from a major surgery you idiot....slow the heck down. I worked 5 hours today and felt AWESOME after, it was great! Then came home and spent 4 hours standing in the kitchen baking for tomorrow's Cub Scout banquet....I am so paying for it now! Took the first dose of pain meds I've taken since last Saturday and hiding under the heating pad...oops
HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 235.8

Well just had my x-rays, had to go have more done, and all is good so I am on my fluids. 65ml per hour. Tomorrow it will go up to 90ml.

My surgery was at 7 a.m. and of course I was scared, nervous and excited. Everything happed so quick, once I checked into the hospital and before I knew it I was standing on the scale outside of the OR and I walked in, hopped on the OR table, I spoke to the surgeon and the anestheologist (sp?) and he said "sweet dreams". I remember waking up in my room and being in pain, they had me on morphene so I kept on hitting that button. By the next morning (24 hrs) I was up walking laps around the floor that I was on. The more you move around the better you feel. I was discharged on the 3rd day, the muscles hurt in your abdomen when you are trying to sit up from a laying down position or getting up from the toilet but otherwise I was good. I am a very big baby when it comes to pain so I took my meds as directed and I was back to work that following Monday, 7 days after surgery. I worked 1/2 day in the a.m. and when home and worked the rest of the day from home for the first week back and after that I was back 40 hrs wk. The overall expierence for me was fantastic, I had no problems or issue, I followed my surgeon's directions exactly and now I will be 1 yr. post op on April 9th... I would do it again in a second !!!

Burping is good! Try gas-x strips to relieve it a bit

Imagine yourself looking like how you want to look. Does it matter what it takes to get there? NOPE! Good luck tomorrow!

I'm on the losers bench!! Just got out of ICU, been walking about, gas is a problem. But got my wife by my side for most of the time.

Surgery tomorrow. It really doesn't feel real yet. It's 11:45. I've had my last glass of Water til surgery. Hospital at 9:30 am surgery at 11:30. I'm praying for the other 13's. Night!