Cathy48

Well it's 7am and today's the day that my life changes for ever! I've knocked back the 2 glasses of Water + Opti before the cut off of nil by mouth from now on. My surgery is at 1.30, admission at 11.00. Good luck to all the other WLS folks whose day is today.

Well it's 7am and today's the day that my life changes for ever! I've knocked back the 2 glasses of Water + Opti before the cut off of nil by mouth from now on. My surgery is at 1.30, admission at 11.00. Good luck to all the other WLS folks whose day is today.

I've loved reading these posts. With one or two exceptions we all seem to want the girls to shrink to a more manageable size. The thing is I vividly remember lusting after breasts, I was 14 and a late developer. I even resorted to cotton wool in the cups lol! Be careful what you wish for is all I can say. Back in the 60s larger cupped bras were thin on the ground and what were available were obviously designed by someone who built bridges in a previous life. Nowadays at least some attempt is made to give us larger ladies a bit more lacy nonsense but let's face it, holding those big girls up calls for some serious infrastructure. I look at the lacy pieces of frippery and long to fasten one on. So what if I'm well past the first flush of youth, in my head I'm still young.

I've sort of become more resigned to it as the days have gone by after having major doubts after my pre-op with my surgeon’s registrar. Lovely, lovely lady but she did question whether this was the right surgery for me and had I considered the band. Who knows what is right and what is wrong but it’s happening on Monday at 1.30 pm West Australian time. I’ve shopped for all my travel sized toiletries and splurged on a pair of new pjs in Target which were just $10 when I got to the till. Maggie journey I’ll see your 57 and raise you 10 lol. I’m doing this so I don’t end up like some of my long passed relatives being pushed around in a wheel chair. I have this amazing photo of my great grannie in her wicker bath chair overflowing in every direction with my tiny grandad getting prepared to push her. God knows how he managed it. I want to enjoy my grandchildren to the full, there’s another on the way, due in October. I want to knock my diabetes on the head, or at the very least, control it with diet. This 2 weeks on Optifast has seen my blood sugar levels drop dramatically. Yes I’m scared. I’m frightened I won’t wake up. Then I’m frightened my hair will drop out and turn grey. I’m nervous about eating afterwards but hey ho, onwards and upwards I say.

I've sort of become more resigned to it as the days have gone by after having major doubts after my pre-op with my surgeon’s registrar. Lovely, lovely lady but she did question whether this was the right surgery for me and had I considered the band. Who knows what is right and what is wrong but it’s happening on Monday at 1.30 pm West Australian time. I’ve shopped for all my travel sized toiletries and splurged on a pair of new pjs in Target which were just $10 when I got to the till. Maggie journey I’ll see your 57 and raise you 10 lol. I’m doing this so I don’t end up like some of my long passed relatives being pushed around in a wheel chair. I have this amazing photo of my great grannie in her wicker bath chair overflowing in every direction with my tiny grandad getting prepared to push her. God knows how he managed it. I want to enjoy my grandchildren to the full, there’s another on the way, due in October. I want to knock my diabetes on the head, or at the very least, control it with diet. This 2 weeks on Optifast has seen my blood sugar levels drop dramatically. Yes I’m scared. I’m frightened I won’t wake up. Then I’m frightened my hair will drop out and turn grey. I’m nervous about eating afterwards but hey ho, onwards and upwards I say.

I've loved reading these posts. With one or two exceptions we all seem to want the girls to shrink to a more manageable size. The thing is I vividly remember lusting after breasts, I was 14 and a late developer. I even resorted to cotton wool in the cups lol! Be careful what you wish for is all I can say. Back in the 60s larger cupped bras were thin on the ground and what were available were obviously designed by someone who built bridges in a previous life. Nowadays at least some attempt is made to give us larger ladies a bit more lacy nonsense but let's face it, holding those big girls up calls for some serious infrastructure. I look at the lacy pieces of frippery and long to fasten one on. So what if I'm well past the first flush of youth, in my head I'm still young.

I've sort of become more resigned to it as the days have gone by after having major doubts after my pre-op with my surgeon’s registrar. Lovely, lovely lady but she did question whether this was the right surgery for me and had I considered the band. Who knows what is right and what is wrong but it’s happening on Monday at 1.30 pm West Australian time. I’ve shopped for all my travel sized toiletries and splurged on a pair of new pjs in Target which were just $10 when I got to the till. Maggie journey I’ll see your 57 and raise you 10 lol. I’m doing this so I don’t end up like some of my long passed relatives being pushed around in a wheel chair. I have this amazing photo of my great grannie in her wicker bath chair overflowing in every direction with my tiny grandad getting prepared to push her. God knows how he managed it. I want to enjoy my grandchildren to the full, there’s another on the way, due in October. I want to knock my diabetes on the head, or at the very least, control it with diet. This 2 weeks on Optifast has seen my blood sugar levels drop dramatically. Yes I’m scared. I’m frightened I won’t wake up. Then I’m frightened my hair will drop out and turn grey. I’m nervous about eating afterwards but hey ho, onwards and upwards I say.

@@harlem_femme, I love all of your reasons for losing weight! I'm about 10 years older than you - 57 next month. It's more than TIME for a healthy life! It's going to be our time now.

This is my greatest wish to lose a goodly proportion of my bust. Currently I'm a 42G and I so long for something a lot lot less as they've been the bane of my life for many years. Surgery is on Monday for me so let's up there are some new and lovely bras around the corner.

This is my greatest wish to lose a goodly proportion of my bust. Currently I'm a 42G and I so long for something a lot lot less as they've been the bane of my life for many years. Surgery is on Monday for me so let's up there are some new and lovely bras around the corner.

This is my greatest wish to lose a goodly proportion of my bust. Currently I'm a 42G and I so long for something a lot lot less as they've been the bane of my life for many years. Surgery is on Monday for me so let's up there are some new and lovely bras around the corner.

This is my greatest wish to lose a goodly proportion of my bust. Currently I'm a 42G and I so long for something a lot lot less as they've been the bane of my life for many years. Surgery is on Monday for me so let's up there are some new and lovely bras around the corner.

Yup, I was a 42G overflowing. I've lost pre/post op more than 35# and with my losses, my bras now fit. I'm on the tightest hook on them, though, and it won't be long before I need a smaller cup and band size.
The smallest I've ever been as an adult was a 34D in my 20's.

I waited until 2 months post op to tell my mom about my surgery. Add that to my pre-op and it was 8 months of "secret keeping" because I knew how'd she react. Her words when I told her "shame on you". I wasn't surprised and only mildly hurt. She has struggled with her weight her whole life and her health issues were one of the big reasons I got my surgery. I know at some point, probably the next family holiday, that it will come up and I'll have to defend my choices to my family because they don't know. Thankfully I've been armed by my team with the knowledge to educate the nay sayers and if they still want to be Negative Nancy they can be. I'll be on the other side of the room perscription drug free, not diabetic, in shape and sassy in my size 8's enjoying the company of those who are happy for me.
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Mine were handfuls before but... whoops... nothing but ladies in here. Nevermind...

So how's everyone doing?......nerves kicking in yet? I think for me I'm still at the excited stage. If I know myself well enough my guess is that the nerves will start getting the best of me around Friday or Saturday..
My doctor prescribed Valium for me to take at bed time once the nerves start, which I know I'll be very grateful I have when the time comes....
Just think fellow May 16th sleevers, this time next week it'll be all over and we'll all be on the road to recovery and a much healthier and happy life!

Day 7 of liquid pre op diet. so far so good. Scared to have a bite of anything not on my list and have not had one bite of anything that I shouldn't. Not weighing myself until surgery day (17th) but I feel like if lost some weight. There have been moments (just moments) where I'd like to have a chunk of chicken or something but the moments pass. I get to have greek yogurt (which in the evening is like manna from heaven). Other than that it's the Protein Shakes, low fat cottage cheese, creamed Soups and lots of liquids. I've been getting in about 110 oz of liquid a day, some days a little more, some a little less. The first 4 days I was only getting about 500-550 calories a day and by day 5 the weakness and irritability was hitting me so I upped the cals that day (I'm allowed 800-1000) and that made a big difference. Feeling great today. Much better. I was at my mother in laws yesterday for Mothers Day and they had tons of food there and I have two little ones that I have to feed so I have had to be around food and deal with it. I am finding that keeping a good mindset is making such a difference. Instead of feeling deprived I'm feeling alive with the excitement over what this all means. I told my kids with confidence that next year around this time were going to Disneyworld (probably more for me than them!). I am so looking forward to being ALIVE for a change. Not that I haven't been alive obviously but there's different ways of being alive and I'm sick of this so called way of life. As a good friend said years ago, everything we do is either life giving or life taking. Every bite of food can be looked at this way too. Being on a liquid pre op diet, getting the surgery, dealing with the difficulties ahead, eating differently are all life giving things. And that sounds like a win-win to me.

Hello everyone, I hope you don't mine if I join in. My surgery is also the 16th, here in Perth, Western Australia. I started my pre-op diet yesterday which consists of 3 shakes/soups a day with 2 cups of vegetables. I'm using Optifast but quite honestly it's ghastly and I find it very hard to drink it. It's sickly sweet which is my main problem with it. I've also tried the Soup twice, I don't know what's in it but it has me sprinting for the loo like some demented greyhound after about 15 minutes. The thought of another 12 days of this is just depressing. I'm 67 and some days I think I must be mad to put myself through this but on my more sensible days I just would like to be rid of this excess weight. I've also got type 2 diabetes and I'm hopeful that I can reduce my medication. Thank you to whoever recommended the app, I've downloaded and look forward to tracking like mad. Cath

Hello everyone, I hope you don't mine if I join in. My surgery is also the 16th, here in Perth, Western Australia. I started my pre-op diet yesterday which consists of 3 shakes/soups a day with 2 cups of vegetables. I'm using Optifast but quite honestly it's ghastly and I find it very hard to drink it. It's sickly sweet which is my main problem with it. I've also tried the Soup twice, I don't know what's in it but it has me sprinting for the loo like some demented greyhound after about 15 minutes. The thought of another 12 days of this is just depressing. I'm 67 and some days I think I must be mad to put myself through this but on my more sensible days I just would like to be rid of this excess weight. I've also got type 2 diabetes and I'm hopeful that I can reduce my medication. Thank you to whoever recommended the app, I've downloaded and look forward to tracking like mad. Cath

I have a similar issue but it's my sister who I have to decide whether I tell or not. We live on other sides of the world so my instinct is to tell her when I see her next (in July). When I raised the subject with her before she was pretty horrified and said that if I must do it to make sure it's reversible. Well, it won't be so I'm more than ever certain it's best not to say. We are very close in spite of the distance apart, but she can be very judgemental. As to telling your mum, you know her best. If you think she would be very upset and hurt to be kept out of the loop then I would tell her. Otherwise you might say that you wanted to not worry her until you are on the road to recovery but preferably before your dinner date.

I have a similar issue but it's my sister who I have to decide whether I tell or not. We live on other sides of the world so my instinct is to tell her when I see her next (in July). When I raised the subject with her before she was pretty horrified and said that if I must do it to make sure it's reversible. Well, it won't be so I'm more than ever certain it's best not to say. We are very close in spite of the distance apart, but she can be very judgemental. As to telling your mum, you know her best. If you think she would be very upset and hurt to be kept out of the loop then I would tell her. Otherwise you might say that you wanted to not worry her until you are on the road to recovery but preferably before your dinner date.

My surgery is scheduled for 16th May. I could have opted for 1st April but I needed additional time to get together the gap fees. I don't know how it works in the US but here in Australia there's a gap between what the Health Cover pays and the total fees. I'm very nervous about it all on account of my age, I am 67. I'm 5' 4" and weigh 110 kgs, about 240 lbs. My surgeon wants me to get to 65 to 70 kgs which just seems to be a joke at the moment. I can't remember the last time I was 70 kgs. I have type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, my greatest hope is that my diabetes goes into remission.

April will be upon us in just a few hours and I know there are several people who are having their surgery tomorrow. Good luck with the first day of the rest of your lives, wishing you health and happiness.

I think it's encouraging and empowering to ourselves and our WLS sisters& brothers to show some before and afters. Everything you went through (or are about to go through) deserves a little praise. Even if you aren't at goal weight yet, (I'm not!!) share !

I've been lurking around and very, very occasionally posting so why did I miss the over sixties group! Everyone seems to be so young here, I couldn't believe I was alone, well here you all are and it's lovely to meet you. I'm 67, that's my calendar age but really it's rubbish. I feel more like 50 or so. After some gentle encouragement from my GP, I have type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, I went to see the surgeon about 16 months ago with the intention of having a band. However I had to increase my health care cover and wait for 12 months before I could go ahead. To cut a very long story short, I'm scheduled for 16th May but decided to have the sleeve instead after reading some negative feedback about the band. I'm scared but excited at the same time. I want a new, healthier me going forward.