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Best of luck to you all!!

Yay for all of us!! We r all gonna do well just keep everyone posted I will be thinking about u all and praying for speedy recoveries!

I'll be joining you as well. Wednesday 6am for me. Good luck to you all and see you on the losing side

I'm one day behind y'all. Getting excited and very nervous! Best of luck to each of you!!!

I have me surgery wensday as well. Looks like a lot of us got that date lol good lucky every one

I am 7 weeks post op. I have lost 40 pounds. Before the surgery I was sweating and having "hot flashes" constantly. I literally carried a portable fan with me at work, I was miserable. My menstrual cycles were totally screwed up. So far, the sweating is practically gone, I haven't had one hot flash and my cycle has been normal for the past two months!

Me and my new blender lol

It's been extremely hot! I had to stop wearing baby powder under my stomach and my breasts because I still sweat so much and the powder doesn't help. By the time I usually make it home, I have Johnson & Johnson brand powder bricks falling to the floor when I take my clothes off! That's one thing I won't miss!

This is my very first post (I found this forum today) and I am cracking up over here! I am so with all of you! I can't wait to paint my toenails, be able to "groom" again, wrap a bath towel all the way around, quit sweating so much, be able to shop in normal stores, wear heals.....so much to look forward to!

I just want to be able to see my "vajayjay" i havent seen it since my first trimester of my pregnancy!!!! And to paint my nails with out being blue in the face from bending over so far, oh and to comfortably "cleanse" myself after using the ladies room haha.

Oh man! Being able to: shave, wrap a towel around myself, RUN, dance, wear cute heels, not use a cpap machine while sleeping without fear of dying, waterparks, not feeling like I'm being stared at, not sweating for no reason, RUNNING, I really wanna run lol can u guys tell???

I wasnt nervous until insurance approved me. Now I realize it's really happening!! July 11!!

I wasnt nervous until insurance approved me. Now I realize it's really happening!! July 11!!

I saw my friends in Friday for the first time 8 weeks out and he showed me a pic he took of me in December , you can really see a change.. I've been going to the gym more I try at least 3 times a week

Im here Big day today slimmer me here i come.

I'm on the pre-op diet too. Surgery July 12th!

The first week after Surgery I lost 15lbs. For some reason I lost weight fast. By 8 months I lost 139lbs total. My starting weight was 289lbs.
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I will like to soak in a tub with all of my belly being under the Water.< /p>

I know exactly how you are feeling. We were on vacation the second week of my liver shrinking diet. It was so hard watching my daughters eat pizza and fried seafood. It was all worth it. I lost 20 lbs on the diet for a total of 53 leading up to surgery, and my surgery was on the 19th and it is going great. Stay strong and it will all be worth it.

Yay!! Congrats!

Thank you all! I love this feeling . Had to go buy a new pair of pants yesterday, picked up a 26 from a size 30. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
My fiancé's eyes just lit up when he had to go get a smaller eyes, I think I cried a bit in the changing room. I feel blessed to have this miracle
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So today I put on my old jeans and come to find out I could put both my legs in 1 of the pants legs....so I'm half of what I used to be!!

Well, this is my 2nd day on my pre-op diet. My instructions are to replace two meals with a high Protein shake and then have one low carb, high Protein meal. I decided that on the days that I work (I work overnights 6p-6a), I will have a shake for Breakfast, my meal for lunch and then my 2nd shake later that night/early morning. When I'm at home with the hubby and baby, I will have both my shakes for bfast and lunch and then have my dinner with them. So far it hasn't been too bad. Being here at work is the hardest because we tend to have a lot of "down time", so I'm kinda just sitting here thiniking about how much I want to EAT, EAT, EAT! Tomorrow will be my first day at home on the diet and I think it will be easier since I'll be so busy with the baby all day. Anyway, for my meals, I'm just having boneless/skinless chicken breast and some veggies. Three days prior to surgery I will just have Clear liquids. The doc says I can do that 1 day prior, but I'm going to go ahead and do it for three days. I'm so scared my liver won't be small enough. I'd hate to get refused because my liver's too fat for fat surgery!! LoL
Anyway, thanks for all the replies. I wish you all continued success on your pre-op diets and hoping our cravings for the "bad stuff" will die down after a few days! I want TACOS and PIZZA!! No, no, no!! I can do this!

Omg those bucket lists are fabulous!!! I'm reading them thinking," yup these are all MiLESTONES as the weight came off!" and because of the buckets list we can all relate to, is why the bypass family is compassionate )
One I would add is:
to be able to skydive. Which I completed Nov 7, 2008. I didn't have to sign the extra waiver cause the extra weight posed a danger, didn't have to pay the extra weight "hazard fee" and I actually was able to fit in any suit they had to offer.