Slim Lola Slim

Hi all! Not much to say, I'm a bit emo, that I posted in the other thread and was pretty much ignored. Tried to be encouraging but guess it was unwanted. It's difficult not to sound dramatic when trying to express a hurt, I'm not searching for sympathy, just wanted to explain my reason for going on my merry way as far as participating.
I'm not good at these forum things so I will just say best of luck to you all on your journeys.

I must applaud you for your enthusiasm and support here! I am going to try my best to stick to the boards, so when your time comes round that I can cheer you on like you've been doing for all of us!
I may not respond or comment on everyone's posts here, as some get missed as it's hard to navigate by phone at times. But I try to read them, sometimes I'm feeling like bad and it's all I can do to just read and find comfort in everyone encouraging and lifting each other up thru the good, bad and ugly times.
Just wanted you and everyone to know I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Thank you all for being sparkly, sunshine faces! It makes the journey even better! :-D

Hope all is going well kind Sir Just joined you on the Loser's Bench yesterday! Not much pain at all, a little odd for me. Just the gas is a bit of a nuisance, can't burp much.

I must applaud you for your enthusiasm and support here! I am going to try my best to stick to the boards, so when your time comes round that I can cheer you on like you've been doing for all of us!
I may not respond or comment on everyone's posts here, as some get missed as it's hard to navigate by phone at times. But I try to read them, sometimes I'm feeling like bad and it's all I can do to just read and find comfort in everyone encouraging and lifting each other up thru the good, bad and ugly times.
Just wanted you and everyone to know I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Thank you all for being sparkly, sunshine faces! It makes the journey even better! :-D

So I've texted my fingers to cramping, lol! You all are so awesome!
I'm 3 days out, already in soft foods per guidelines here in Sweden. And do far have eaten cottage cheese, cream cheese on hard bread, a meatball and mashed potatoes. All went down fine, and chewing till it's liquid, kinda gross ate a while. I want scrambled eggs which is on my ok list but I'ma little leary as many have trouble with them. In waiting fir after 2 weeks, I can't imagine vomiting this early out. Getting in 1.5 liters of h20 is my focus. I can eat about an ounce or less of food then I'm hiccurping, hiccup/burp. Still gassy and try to walk around but in truly exhausted with most activity. Still self injecting a nightly heparin shot, they are stinging less now. I have no appetite and would rather not eat, but I have head hunger and cravings. Good I have no appetite to even want to follow thru on them.
Keep aiming for your goals! Until next time

I'm excited for you! You've got the right mindset and positive attitude! Your determination and desire for this are definitely signs of your future success!
Don't over do the walking as you will get exhausted faster than you expect. I'm sure you're going to do great!
Best wishes for a smooth and speedy recovery! You've got this!

I must applaud you for your enthusiasm and support here! I am going to try my best to stick to the boards, so when your time comes round that I can cheer you on like you've been doing for all of us!
I may not respond or comment on everyone's posts here, as some get missed as it's hard to navigate by phone at times. But I try to read them, sometimes I'm feeling like bad and it's all I can do to just read and find comfort in everyone encouraging and lifting each other up thru the good, bad and ugly times.
Just wanted you and everyone to know I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Thank you all for being sparkly, sunshine faces! It makes the journey even better! :-D

I must applaud you for your enthusiasm and support here! I am going to try my best to stick to the boards, so when your time comes round that I can cheer you on like you've been doing for all of us!
I may not respond or comment on everyone's posts here, as some get missed as it's hard to navigate by phone at times. But I try to read them, sometimes I'm feeling like bad and it's all I can do to just read and find comfort in everyone encouraging and lifting each other up thru the good, bad and ugly times.
Just wanted you and everyone to know I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Thank you all for being sparkly, sunshine faces! It makes the journey even better! :-D

Glad you are in good spirits despite the complication. Hope the swelling will calm down soon. Wishing you speedy healing and that everything from here in out goes smoothly!

So I've texted my fingers to cramping, lol! You all are so awesome!
I'm 3 days out, already in soft foods per guidelines here in Sweden. And do far have eaten cottage cheese, cream cheese on hard bread, a meatball and mashed potatoes. All went down fine, and chewing till it's liquid, kinda gross ate a while. I want scrambled eggs which is on my ok list but I'ma little leary as many have trouble with them. In waiting fir after 2 weeks, I can't imagine vomiting this early out. Getting in 1.5 liters of h20 is my focus. I can eat about an ounce or less of food then I'm hiccurping, hiccup/burp. Still gassy and try to walk around but in truly exhausted with most activity. Still self injecting a nightly heparin shot, they are stinging less now. I have no appetite and would rather not eat, but I have head hunger and cravings. Good I have no appetite to even want to follow thru on them.
Keep aiming for your goals! Until next time

So I've texted my fingers to cramping, lol! You all are so awesome!
I'm 3 days out, already in soft foods per guidelines here in Sweden. And do far have eaten cottage cheese, cream cheese on hard bread, a meatball and mashed potatoes. All went down fine, and chewing till it's liquid, kinda gross ate a while. I want scrambled eggs which is on my ok list but I'ma little leary as many have trouble with them. In waiting fir after 2 weeks, I can't imagine vomiting this early out. Getting in 1.5 liters of h20 is my focus. I can eat about an ounce or less of food then I'm hiccurping, hiccup/burp. Still gassy and try to walk around but in truly exhausted with most activity. Still self injecting a nightly heparin shot, they are stinging less now. I have no appetite and would rather not eat, but I have head hunger and cravings. Good I have no appetite to even want to follow thru on them.
Keep aiming for your goals! Until next time

Just popping in today I'm on the loser's bench! Surgery went a smoothlyand I have no pain so far. It hurt alittle as I was waking up in recovery. Had a different surgeon than expected, talk about eye candy! Lol! Hope all continues this smoothly! Hope you all are doing well today and congrats to anyone just post op and best of luck to those soon to be operated. :-D

There's plenty if room come on over! Great job on your pre-op diet, it's not easy but do worth it!

Good luck! Keep us all posted! I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Good luck to all of you having your surgeries soon!!

Congrats this time tomorrow you'll be on the road to healing

Just popping in today I'm on the loser's bench! Surgery went a smoothlyand I have no pain so far. It hurt alittle as I was waking up in recovery. Had a different surgeon than expected, talk about eye candy! Lol! Hope all continues this smoothly! Hope you all are doing well today and congrats to anyone just post op and best of luck to those soon to be operated. :-D

Just popping in today I'm on the loser's bench! Surgery went a smoothlyand I have no pain so far. It hurt alittle as I was waking up in recovery. Had a different surgeon than expected, talk about eye candy! Lol! Hope all continues this smoothly! Hope you all are doing well today and congrats to anyone just post op and best of luck to those soon to be operated. :-D

You are working that pouch like a Boss! Super human willpower! Lol! I hope my post op will transition so smoothly. Keep up the heat work!
Still on preop liquids and that scrambled sounds like heaven!

Update Post-Op Day 9:
My twin brother and his tribe visited this weekend and it was first time interacting with someone other than my Wiff. Of course he ordered pizza for everyone and I had my powders?utm_source=BariatricPal&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=CommentLink" target="_ad" data-id="1" >unjury Protein chicken Soup. I didn't have any problems with it to be honest. I liked the smell but had ZERO desire to eat any.
Then we went to parents house tonight all together and Dad had made a smoked ham and several other things. Again I didn't have any urge or desire for the food there and was perfectly fine with eating my FF Cottage cheese and SF Jello. It was great test of will power and handling this kind of situation that will happen many times in future where I won't eat what everyone else has on their plates. I was joking around and tried to not make anyone else feel bad about eating what they where eating.
I have on purpose had my Wiff and girls eat things in front of me so THEY get used to it and so THEY don't feel bad or guilty. I have always had our house eat together at kitchen table as one unit. I don't want this to change that. I feel like the more we do this the more comfortable they will be with it. I have no problems with this but the reality is that WE get to go through this journey together; it is just me.
So in short all is going well and I am still doing great with eating, drinking, and finally slept all 7 hours straight.
Tomorrow I get to add scrambled eggs for Breakfast. Not going to lie.....looking forward to this BIG TIME!!!!

UPDATE Post-Op Day 7:
Went to 1 week appointment at Dr and here are the highlights:
- Talked to NUT and she praised me for being a good boy and weighed me but I will give the number at end.....Then she went over my next phase which begins on Sunday and also went over phase after that which begins in two Sundays.
- I told NUT and nurse about this forum and they are going to both look into it.
- Giving prescription for the Urso Forte to help prevent gallstones which is good thing!
- Directed to start back up my Flintstones twice a day
- Directed to start back up Vitamin D3 (10,000 IU) twice a day because I am low
- Didn't need to start on Vitamin B12 because I very, very high in that (Yay me)
- Dr Assistant gave incredible play by play of the surgery. I was impressed on how much he went into detail. I even asked how much of my intestines where skipped and he told me 150cm (5 FEET!!!!). We have 20 feet so I have 25% less now. I was lucky to come to this clinic! The staff is positive, positive, and positive!
- Scheduled 6 Week appointment and giving lab work to be done week before appointment.
No to my weight loss...(drum roll please) .................... I have lost in 7 days.......... 17 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't believe it! I knew I was doing well but wow. I didn't really have a goal but if I the number was 10 I was going to be excited, so to see 17 was encouraging to say the least.
I will update my tracker tomorrow.
Peace Out and WORD to Your Mutha!

I'm just exhausted and a little gassy. I feel jittery when my sugar starts to drop and headaches. Not to bad in the bathroom department.
My insomnia is ridiculous I'm getting 2-3 hrs of light sleep with dreaming vividly, waking in between the bizarre dreams to fall back to sleep into more.

Thanks for sharing your updates. I'm going I will have smooth sailing like you. Getting nervous my time is coming next week and your witty updates are helping me not freak out too badly.

UPDATE Post-Op Day 6:
I have confession to make: I snuck up on the scale even though I wanted to wait until tomorrow's 1 week appointment. I am not going to tell yet what number I saw or if it is good or bad. Everyone will have to wait until tomorrow after I get official weigh in at Dr office.
My sleeping gets better each night. I got 5 hours in a row last night and then I couldn't get back to sleep.
I got on treadmill again today and went 1 mile in 25 minutes at 2.5 mph. I was happy with it for sure but then I tried to be a hero and help Wiff shovel snow and I think I went overboard. I was sore and went to lay down and slept for almost 3 hours. I am going to take it easy tonight.
My twin brother and his family (5 kids) is coming into town and staying with us for two nights so looking forward to that. And he is bringing his 2 dogs too which will be interesting lol. It will not be boring this weekend!! Pray for me! LOL

On Day 15 of a 4 week liquid pre-op diet. Lost 11.7 pounds got 12 more to go. I have cheated but planned to because of the holidays. I didn't go and binge, but had a small portion, mainly Protein. My gain was Water which disappeared by morning thanks to blood pressure meds, gotta live those diuretics. The scale is still going down in the right direction. My surgery is Jan 9 th in Gävle, Sweden.