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I just found out last Thursday and I'm scheduled for the 21st! Super quick here. I have to do a 14 day liquid diet starting Tuesday. Good luck!
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I just found out last Thursday and I'm scheduled for the 21st! Super quick here. I have to do a 14 day liquid diet starting Tuesday. Good luck!
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Good luck! Starting my 2 week liquid pre op diet this Tuesday eeeek!
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My surgery is on Thursday 6/9! I feel like I'm pretty well prepared for my hospital stay and for post op. Any last minute advice/tips/well wishes would be appreciated!
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I'm Mexican. We ate lots of healthy foods, I just ate too much of all of it.
My staples are carnitas, carne asada, guacamole, Beans, queso fresco, salsa...
I avoid tortillas, masa, rice.
There are healthy and unhealthy options in every culture. Protein is Protein, carbs are carbs,

I'm not Mexican but I grew up on good old southern style county cooking......with lots of basically meat and potatoes....Our meals were full of high fat, high carb foods.
You just have to make up your mind to change. Unfortunately there is no trick....you just have to make up your mind you're going to eat healthier and then do it.....you can also work on making some of your favorite traditional dishes more healthy by making healthy substitutions. .....don't expect it to be the same as the original, but more of an alternative. Good luck!!!

I wish I did it years ago also. I feel like a million bucks.
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Hang in there. Im 48 and 1 year post op and feel awesome. Wish I had done it 10 years ago

I'm scheduled 6/21.... 37 days!

Im sorry Im certainly not alone with this.
makes me sad too, but like most of the pp's said, she is slowly accepting it. Today is better than yesterday and she even said that she would try to drive up to visit me after the surgery....so keep your head up. your mom will come around....they may NEVER be overly excited about it...that is until they see our success.

Good luck!! I'm starting my 2 week pre op liquid diet this Tuesday. I've heard the first few days are the hardest.
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3-4 pre mixed Protein shakes (Premier Protein & Pure Protein) per day was my pre op diet. There was simply no way that I couldn't lose weight during this time. It was guaranteed.

June 21st here. Started a three week pre-op diet on Tuesday. You all know they have forums for each month cohort?
http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/1215-june-2016-sleevers/

I think there are a lot of reasons.
1. people who ought to consider surgery but are afraid - and who may be jealous of the success they see, or fearful that it wouldn't work anyway because nothing else does.
2. people who ought to have surgery but for one reason or another can't afford it or are not medically eligible due to other problems and may be jealous.
3. people who do not struggle with their weight and honestly have no idea how difficult and DIFFERENT the process is for those who have put on weight and may have medication or other issues that work against them. they mean well - but they are just not capable of understanding why someone would need surgery.
I do not hide my WLS or that I am trying to loose weight, but the trigger for me was diabetes, and I tell people I had surgery to try to reverse diabetes, and that tends to shut them up, because for some WARPED reason they see diabetes as a disease, and they do not see obesity as a disease but rather as laziness.