kansasgirl

a friend from work gave me a herbalife best defense to take has lots of vitamin c and other things... I just hate feeling all clogged up

I will be talking with my coordinator and surgeon tomorrow but tonight my nose is runny my head is stuffed up and my sore throat feels better than last night but still hurts. I'm a week away from surgery and don't want to take any medicine that i shouldn't be.. i know they said not to take any aspirin or anything that cause blood thinning for blod clot reasons.. what can i take tonight though.. i'd really love to take some benedryl and go to bed... any ideas???

Oh sure so i got a sore throat yesterday and today my nose is stuffed and i'm congest.. yeah just what i want a week before i go.. I know i can't take aspirin but what can i take?? I wish i could just take nightquil and go to bed... Anyone have any suggestions for me.. i can't call my surgeon at the moment.

I hope to make some while i'm there and will try to capture videos of the hospital and the aftermath now if my throat would quit hurting.. seriously i start to get a sore throat today??? uggg... Hope it's only allergies but it sure feels real sore.....

Thanks everyone!!

Oh i already have one of those still on my bed.. i love mine.. it auto shuts off.. but after ten hours..I was thinking some people said they brought small heating pads for their tummy area but i don't know what kind to get... Got some more unjury today in the mail and ordered two more canisters of the chicken soup broth... think i'm ready tomorrow i go into single digits till surgery.. 9days unbelievable.. so ready!!!

wow looks like you are ready..now just need the days to fly by.. i need to try my sample pack of unjury's chicken broth.. see if i like it...so i can order it here.. i already have the unflavored protein.. what kind of heating pad did you buy? That's a good idea

I have been on my preop diet now for 4 days.. and at first i was soooooooooooo hungry.. and now that has really faded and i'm not starving all the time.. although i do if i don't keep schedule with eating at the same times... I even had a bacon ranch salad with the vinegrette dressing from mcd's last night and though.. wow i never realized how huge this salad is.. i always just plowed through it and though i was still hungry before!!! (i know i havn't gone to any fast food but we were in a real hurry last night to get dinner so we could build our box garden.) I've been rereading dr. alvarez's book and love it.. since we are going to Mexico and won't have alot of doctor advice.. his is such a good step by step what to do.. I've also been stalking up on alot of Protein drink powder and been trying to get my house in order.. since my senior will be graduating on May 19th.. lot's going on in the month of May for me. I'm Eleven days out!!!!!!!!! I'm just so excited and i know this next week is going to fly by.. it's packed with lots of stuff to do!! Hope y'all are as excited as me!!!! Holly Here's the last time i was in Mexico October 2011 ughh looking so fat

Garage sales... we have so many of them this summer that's how i plan to stock my clothes.. i'm gonna go hit up alot of them this summer that is the cheapest way to get newer clothes most times barley worn ones.. and thrift shops too... Good luck on your journey

Thank you all for your marvelous support, i am touched by all your kind words!! You are all right this is a journey we have to take ourselves and do what's right no matter what anyone thinks! I can't wait to be on the other side of this and on to a better healthy me! With my busy life this is what's right for me, it will be my tool even when i've lost the weight If you like to follow me on youtube i have started up a journal... thanks gals again for your support it's so nice to come back and see so many wonderful responses!!! Have a fabulous Sunday!!!

So I had been waiting and waiting for my dad to maybe help me out a few months ago with financing my surgery .. i would write him and he would think about it or not write back at all. Giving me some false hope that he might be able to help me out. So finally last month i just took the reins and decided to see if i could do it myself and went and applied at a couple of banks.. low and behold i got approved and am now set for surgery on May third. Sooo anyhow I had emailed my father back to let him know to never mind i didn't need his help and that i was going to have surgery.. he never replied. He hadn't replied when i had asked him for help the last time either... Then after trying to call him a few times finally getting ahold of him.. i tell him that i'm excited i'm going to have this surgery and he tells me he wouldn't be excited he doesn't see why i would need to go and do something like that. He would never go have surgery from something he can do himself. Telling me he doesn't understand why i can't eat healthy and excercise... you know how tired i am of hearing this from people who just don't understand??? They've never been MORBIDLY OBESE in their lives yet they seem to know what we should be able to do ourselves. I told him if that is all it took i should have been able to do it by now. I just don't get it.. Why must those in our lives who know us best be so closed minded and think they know what we should be able to do based on what they know. I had to change the subject quick because i could tell it was headed one direction.. which made me think.. all those months that he said maybe he was never going to help me anyways.. so I'm really proud of myself and putting my foot down to do this for me and not let anything get in my way. Thinking of it now i wish i would have done this sooner and not been waiting on him to decide my future.. it just makes me sad to think my dad can't even see the vision i see when i think of having this surgery and the effect it will have on my life. How much of my life has been wasted on wishing and wondering what it'd be like if i could just lose the weight.. it has consumed me mostly and i'm ready to be done with it. So to those of you who have loved ones who just can't see why you are wanting to do this.. Just do it and be proud of yourself.... they will only see the true value of this further down the road. I am so grateful my mother is behind me along with my hubby.. Thanks for listening to my vent.. feels great to have it off my chest!! Holly

I didn't know they could do this.. how short are you? I'm 5'4" and weigh 268.... I havn't heard of a doctor asking you that..

Thanks so much for posting this. you've made me feel much much better.. now hopefully my bc will get her in time just ordered it friday.. and paid for overnight shipping.. Glad to hear of someone recently doing this.. such a load off my shoulders..!!!!!!!! THANKS!

Thanks cissie... i will have to purchase one today.. as mine is in another state and rush that delivery... I swear our passport agency should get an F - for their customer service communication.. I've never been not able to talk to someone about a delivery or item purchased anywhere else.. Literally they tell you it is being processed that's all they know and they can't tell you anything else.. there is no one else to talk to or email call back next week is what they say.. what day and age is this?? It's just crazy .. now i have to go spend 52.00 to just get another birth certificate barely in time.. ughhh sorry i'm frustrated.. thanks for letting me vent!! :-)

THANKS SO MUCH... really appreciate you taking the time to scan that in and send it off.. Good information... have you read dr. alvarez's book too.. he gives you some great info in there too... just re read it last night..

I applied for my Passport On March 17th... just getting a passport card...and got a letter two weeks ago stating i didn't put in a form they needed ( i had a passport before but lost it) I swear i did i checked the paperwork like 3 times over before sending it in. My husband got his card in the mail about two weeks ago. So i checked their passport status page and all it says is your passport is being processed.. call here for more info if you are travelling within the next 14 days and havn't received your passport. So i call there and guess what they tell me? They have received my application and are processing it. I asked if there was anyways to find out when they would be mailing it or i could talk to someone that knew anything more than what the website was telling me. Nope not unless i wanted to pay 110.00 more to get the book and expidite it.. WHAT??? That is the only thing i can do to let them know that i am travelling soon and need my passport?? Anyone else have this problem? I'm 13 days away from travel... and their normal processing time is 4-6 weeks the 27th will make 6 weeks out.. I'm worried i won't get this in time... don't have the extra money to send for expiditing which i think is ridiculous anyhow. I asked them what the difference is why i couldn't talk to someone that was in the processing department and she said that they only have access to where passport books are made not the cards.. I'm just very frustrated because they also have my birth certificate and marriage license.. Anyone know anything else i can do?/ Thanks in advance Holly

can you email that to me too? I would love to read it.. holly.wilson2011@gmail.com Thanks!!

your welcome.. which reminds me now that i have two weeks left i'm going to read it again.. lot's of good info.. but i expected that since he has really good info out on youtube too!!

Congrats on getting your date.. now the fun begins... I am having surgery on May 3rd as well.. I've been on my own pre diet of slim fast.. unjury shakes and light meals.. at first it was really hard the first two days.. but now i'm finally feeling fuller for longer periods of time and not like i'm starving!! i can't beleive it' s only two weeks away...i'm very ready and excited for that day to come!!

Yes i purchased it for my Nook e reader... and its full of really good information.. i was impressed.. although i'm not going to dr. alvarez he has very good info in the book i felt like i got my ten dollars worth for sure!!

two more days and i will be two weeks away i'm getting real excited too... Been starting to get a small coffee instead of a large and hoping in a week to cut myself off.. it's soo hard.. i have been a lifelong everyday coffee drinker I started taking my powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury shakes and they taste fabulous.. i tried chocolate the last two days and oh my they are so chocolatey!!! I hope they taste just as yummy after surgery. I've been doing sorta bad at dinner time ... it's hard when the hubby makes great dinners. Also been trying to get into the habit of using myfitnesspal again.. thanks janneth for all your motivation.. it really does help to see what you put down... Well time to go make sure the kido's are getting to bed!!

I am getting sleeved on the third as well.. but i'm just now starting my slim fast diet not so great last two days.l good all the way up until dinner i don't know what it is.. but probably in my head i think i should be eating more at dinner... I figure by the time thursday comes around i will need to get it down pat.. so hard to get out of old habits!!!

Yum i'm going to have to go find those... do they come in the powder or just the pre made drinks?

Definetly go with a personal loan.. i got one from my credit union and it was alot less than any of the banks or a financing company

I looked at my unjury.. and it has 4grams of sugar and slimfast has 6grams so i don't think it's that bad.. I'm just doing it because i have done it before and lost a bunch of weight for the first two or three weeks.. and that's all i'm looking to accomplish here.. by that time i'll be to my surgery and will have lost hopefully 10-15 pounds... it wasn't a bad day.. didn't get starving hungry thankfully!! LOL