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My birthday is December 29th!

Won't it be great to welcome the new year with real hope for a future free of excess weight, failure, and poor health? I am so excited!

I am totally obsessing! I am trying so hard not to drive my family nuts with all that is going through my head. I am going to attend a support group in hopes that I will have a safe place to share all this! My surgery date is dec. 16th (Lord willing!) and I can't wait!

I am self pay, so I have very few requirements. I'm going to look into support groups. Thanks!

I hope to have my sleeve done in December and I need some suggestions. Looking back on your own journey, can you recommend the best way to prepare mentally and physically for mine? I want the best chance of success and am willing to do the work.

Thanks for your response! I think my school would work with me if I had to retake this semester. This semester is advanced nursing, but I have a very supportive family and no job. I agree with you that school would be easier to manage than a new job. I also suspect that if I was able to get a job at this age and size, the surgery would just get pushed to the back burner and my health numbers cannot hold much longer!

I plan to have sleeve surgery in December. I am really enjoying this forum! Everyone is so helpful and encouraging, so here are my questions. If you don't "feel full" while on liquids post surgery, are you always hungry? I am also very concerned about my energy level post surgery. I have three weeks off before I go back to school to complete my last semester of nurses training and am scared to death that I may feel too weak to meet the demands. I am 43 and 100 lbs overweight, so I have struggled with energy all along. My alternative is to wait till I am working but that seems even more risky. Any thoughts or experiences to share? Thanks!

I plan to have sleeve surgery in December. I am really enjoying this forum! Everyone is so helpful and encouraging, so here are my questions. If you don't "feel full" while on liquids post surgery, are you always hungry? I am also very concerned about my energy level post surgery. I have three weeks off before I go back to school to complete my last semester of nurses training and am scared to death that I may feel too weak to meet the demands. I am 43 and 100 lbs overweight, so I have struggled with energy all along. My alternative is to wait till I am working but that seems even more risky. Any thoughts or experiences to share? Thanks!