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I think I missed the no caffeine for any length of time post op. My husband found a coffee area in my floor and when we went for walks he would make a cup to take along for the walk. I have since been drinking one cup every morning. Why did YAll get no caffeine post op?

I hope your surgery went well Pac Woman! Sending you my best and hopes for a strong and happy new YOU!!!

I had my surgery 1/6/2015!! I am home and learning all kinds of new life challenges! I have been doing really good since my surgery, so much I am down 17 lbs, but I feel like I might eat the wrong things and start gaining again. Maybe because that seems to be the past patterns before surgery and not used to not going back to my old ways!! I think I have lost so much in less than a week that my expectations are 17lbs every week for the next month or two... Probably big expectations!!! I need to learn patience! I hope everyone is doing well and look forward to hearing your stories too!

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PreOp diet was just the beginning of the challenges for me! I had two weeks high protein liquid with a lean and green dinner everyday until the day before surgery. The day before surgery I had strict clear liquids only and not to eat or drink after 10pm... I chose to do clear all day and went to bed early that night!!!

I was weighed the day of surgery! That is the weight I use as my starting weight!

I've never done a challenge before but I will give it a shot.. I am six days post op having the VSG. Surgery weight was 266.5... Today I am 251.2!!! I will hope to be 220 by Valentines Day! ❤️❤️❤️

I am six days post op and what a journey it has been! It seems like yesterday I was counting down the hours until my surgery! I had an excellent surgery and a overall quick recovery in the hospital. I'm not going to say it was all fun and games, but I do know if I had to see one more Bariatric tray of popsicles, diet cranberry juice, and broth, I think I would finally have to let out a BIG NO MORE liquid TRAYS!! I am over exaggerating a little, but I find it comical that the hospital brings so much to offer but you can only sip enough to get your lips wet and then you feel full!! It seemed as soon as I finished one popsicle it was time for my next big liquid meal!! I couldn't sip fast enough before the next meal was being served! With all that being said, I am extremely grateful for making the decision to start a new healthier life and even though this is the beginning and I know everything comes with ups and downs, I am going to make the best of this decision. I have dreamed of the day I don't have to feel as though everyone is talking about me, the fatest mom, or my kids won't have to look embarrassed when I would have to turn sideways to get through the security area at a local concert or amusment park. I can think of so many times my weight has altered things I could have been doing and chose not to simply because I was too overweight and did not want to be looked at or talked about once again. I now have visions of being challenged with this new life, but I have outweighed the challenges with positive reasonings. I want cake... eat half a sugar free pudding and be full and still loose weight. I have noticed that the thought is less impactful when there is NO choice... I no longer have the choice to fall of the DIET and gorge myself until I was sick. It is now a thought, a solution, and with great reward.. I will still have remained loyal to my new eating habits and that thought is gone in just a few seconds, whereas, before, I would turn into a three year old hissy fit until I got my own PINT of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie and ate the whole entire pint alone. I guess the moral to this Blog today is most of my FOOD issues were in my HEAD and now that I can not allow my HEAD to make such crazy decisions... I now listen to my little tummy and when I am full I QUIT. Now, let me remind you, this is just the beginning and I am sure soon enough there will be a fit to throw and I will make sure I let you in on those too! Good luck with your daily decisions and Blog soon! Christie

I am BACK and I am forever grateful for my decision to make such a drastic change in my life! Tomorrow will make a full week post op and I have lost 17lbs. I will not lie, getting used to the sipping opposed to the gulping has been a challenge! I am amazed at the confidence I have gained as well as the excitement of knowing I am finally in the running for my new life!! I wake up each morning (still a little sore =) ) so excited to know that I followed all my drinking and food guidelines and how I know that scale is going to show my committment to this new lifestyle! Thank you for following!! I feel as though I have a new family along with my new life on here!!! Talk soon! Christie

I have exactly 21 hours, 21 min and 46 seconds until I am in the OR for my VGS! I am packed and ready to get this past me so I can start my new life! I had my pre-op visit with the nurse this morning, I am pre-registered and I have everything on my list checked off! Now what do I do for the next 20 hours of my "life as I have lived with for this long"! I do not think I will be able to get much rest tonight, however, I am sure I will get a few winks of rest recovering! To say I am excited about the decisions I have made, is putting it mildly! I am super, super, super EXCITED and HOPEFUL for the changes that are coming my way! Life will be so different, but I got this!!! I hope all, that are thinking about or have done one of the surgeries, best wishes for a great new year! Hope to post post-op!

Congratulations DizzyLizzie!! I am 22 hours away from my surgery and I am feeling as excited as you sound!!! I just wanted to reach out there and wish you the best of luck through the two week pre-op and your upcoming surgery! Keep in touch! Christie

This is my first blog! I wish I would have found this website sooner! I have found so much useful information from many on here! My surgery date is set for January 6th, 2015 at 11:15am. I am finding my emotions to be swinging widely between terrified and exstatic! I have been on my two week pre-op diet and in hindsight, it hasn't been all that bad. The first few days were the worst until I called the doc's office to find that I was starving myself and I needed to add some caloric value to my straight protien diet. I was more than grateful to hear those words. I chose to do the pre-op diet through the holidays and that was a challange! I made it though and if I can resist Christmas festives as well as NYE, I think I got this in the bag! I am NOT going to lie, I have been tempted and I threw a few fits but I came out a winner! I have two full days of more waiting and then I will move from pre-op to OP! I have struggled with trying to keep myself overly busy so not to think of FOOD all day and how I chose NOT to wait for a later date which meant .... NO HUGE Christmas DINNER, leftovers or NYE party trays. I think a hurdle for me is the girls I work with. We have always been EATERS together and this year they would have to eat without me. I have to say ... I MADE IT THROUGH THAT TOOO!!! My husband and I just told two of my four children (younger), the older one's were told when I was given my date! It was so hard to explain why I needed to have this surgery. I take handfull of meds for this obesity related illness and I want to live long enough to know my great great grandchildren and the life I am living now, I will not see the beginnings of my first granchild if I do not do this. I am ready to be free of diabetes, sleep apenea, high blood pressure, migrains, and the fact that I have to literally help myself up from a chair because my legs are getting to weak to hold my weight anymore. My youngest says, "Momma, I think you are beautiful just the way you are"! ::TEARS:: I have fought this long enough and I believe they will love me when I am able to run marathons with them and play ball with them!! For now, I sit patiently and wait for my surgery date, drinking protien and reading blogs to make the time go by! I hope to hear many success stories if I don't blog again before my date!

I am January 6th also!! I had to start my liquid diet two weeks prior to surgery so I am on it now! Wish everyone the best and please say a few prayers for all that have to be on this liquid diet! I'm in for the win though!!!