donna450

You go for it girl. You'll do just fine. Mine is a week from now. Today am heading for tampa to get my blood workup and all that paperwork out of the way before surgery. So you will be on the other side. Be well. Take those pain meds and remember it's a healthy start to a new life.

I've found myself wanting food when I look at it, but not wanting it for very long. I have three Protein Shakes, 3 cans of chicken broth and inbetween all day long I drink crystal light raspberry tea. I have lost about 8 lbs in 6 days. I have met a plateau. I gained a lb then lost it then gained back 1/2 lbs. so this is just preop. So my medications have a lot to do with my weight and how I lose it or gain it. But the meds I have to take, they are psychiatric drugs for Bipolar disorder and I've been stable for quite a while and I don't want to go back to that black hole. But I do want to lose weight. I try not to dwell on the liquids or what time I'm eating them. Just today I was suppose to have my morning shake at 10 am. I was busy doing paperwork in my office and listening to music and I finished the most part got up and realized it was almost 11a. So I fixed my shake vanilla and banana with ice and Water. I have a magic bullet. Anyhow, for Breakfast I had chicken broth which gives me another texture and taste, my tea, then a shake about 10a. then chicken broth for lunch, ice tea, then a shake about 3 or 4, ice tea, then another chicken broth about 7 then a shake at 8 and again iced tea. I've come to accept it. I've found I want the food but not bad enough to wreck my chances for a band. I'm not saying I'm all prepared and giving up on everything. I am looking forward to receipes that I can make that will entice me to eat better but regular standbys just made a different way. I'm always researching. So keeping busy with this site or others or just writing, journaling walking, reading and not dwelling has helped me and I'm sure a lot of others. Don't beat yourself up if you cave in and cry, it is a wrenching thing that we've clung to for many years and we can't do without it, but we can control it instead of it controlling us. Get your cry over and start over the next day with renewed faith, strength and resolve. Keep coming back here for support and just to relate. Good luck to all of us.

I hear all of ya! My banding is the 23rd and I'm as nervous as a cat. But that means I'm determined to do everything right. I have most of doctors ordering liquid or dissolvable pills for me and the ones I won't be able to take because you have to take them whole I am going to wean off of as my preop starts 8-8. But those hopefully will be the ones I won't need to take anyway after surgery. My main worry is that I will be able to take the liquid meds after surgery as I have a tendency to get seizures if I don't take those certain meds. Scary!! Big breath......calming down....I know this can work out....it's hard for me to take everything for granted (that it will work out) I have to plan and make sure my end is as it should be and leave the rest of it up to God and the surgeon. I hope this finds all of you in good health and well being in the weeks and months ahead. We are all doing this because we need to for various reasons but health I would say is the best one. Kudos to all of you. Donna