marywithoutsound

Oh it sounds like you have loads to look forward to! I will be crossing my fingers that you get those 3lbs off!! I have every faith you'll be able to do it though! The Peanut Butter Cookies recipe sounds good - over the last few months I have been trying to make low-cal versions of my favourite stuff (do you have the Hairy Dieters cookbook? It's brill for really tasty low cal recipes) so if they work out I will have to ask you for the recipe!

Hi ladies . Hope you're all doing well today! Those bruises look so painful, although I had already heard lots of bad things about those injections! Today wasn't such a good day food wise. It was my boyfriend's birthday and we have been out all day (we took advantage of Open House London and went to the Foreign and Commonweath Office and the Supreme Court - had a brill time, wish they did it more often), which was kind of difficult as I couldn't plan! I woke up feeling really headachey, clammy and sick as well, and really couldn't face eating a big meal so i have grazed throughout the day.I don't know whether this is going to be something that carries on until my body is used to fewer carbs and lower calories. It lasted well into the afternoon so I hope it has gone before I go back to work on Wednesday! Breakfast: 30g Rice Krispies with semi skimmed milk Snack (around 12pm): banana Snack (around 1pm): 1 piece of tuna sushi from Luke's lunch! Snack (around 2.30pm): Apple lunch (around 4pm -at the pub whilst Luke watched the football and ate the most delicious looking pie and chips!!): Vegetable Soup and one slice of granary bread dinner (8pm) 2 eggs, scrambled I am feeling a little bit disappointed with myself as I have grazed so much, although I know it's nothing compared to what I would have eaten before, and I am only at around 900 calories according to My Fitness Pal. Oh well - tomorrow is a new day. Onwards and upwards!

Thanks for responding, everybody! First day of pre-op done and it hasn't been too bad at all (although my boyfriend was out last night so I didn't sleep, so have managed to nap half the day away today!) My food has been like this: Breakfast: 22g Rice Krispies with semi skimmed milk Snack; 1 banana Lunch: 2 Ryvita with light Philadelphia cheese 1 nectarine Dinner: 60g sirloin steak with roasted pepper, courgette and onion 1 layered weightwatchers fromage frais And lots of Water and peppermint tea. According to MyFitnessPal this has added up to about 600 calories.

My pre-op diet starts tomorrow when I will be 14 days pre-op, so I figured today was as good a time as any to start my diary. Hopefully writing everything down (even if nobody reads it) will help keep me focused and further down the line, if I feel myself falling off the wagon, will remind me why I don't want to let myself get back to the state I am in now. So - hi! I'm Natalie, I'm 23 and living in London with my lovely boyfriend. I'm originally from Manchester (about 200 miles away) and sometimes I get really lonely living so far away, which doesn't help with my emotional eating! At my first consultation I weighed 235 pounds and had a BMI of 44. I fully expect that has gone up since then though. I have had a very bad week and have definitely felt kind of sad about the fact that my relationship with food is going to have to change forever, and so have had lots of my favourite foods before I give them up. I know there are differing opinions as to whether this is a good thing to do or not, but I feel like I have had my 'grieving period' and am ready to start my pre-op diet tomorrow knowing that, actually, it has made me feel rubbish and I don't like how these foods make me feel. Had a bit of a 'Eureka' moment earlier when I finished my dinner and felt sad that I would not have a 'normal' relationship with food again - but then it hit me like a tonne of bricks that the way I eat now is definitely not normal, and if anything, being sleeved will (hopefully!) bring me a lot closer to 'normal'. I'll end this post here to stop me from boring you all, but I feel like this is going to almost be my therapy - my boyfriend is very slim and active and fit and he doesn't understand at all (although he tries his hardest to!) so here I can almost talk to myself! I will check in tomorrow to make sure I am keeping on track!! Nx

I'm being sleeved October 5th in Manchester, England!

Hi! I am being sleeved on the 5th October. 2 more days until the start of my pre-op diet!