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ive just read my instructions again to check about the deodarant thing andeveryting else you ave all mentioned, but it just says about nail polish and what im not allowed to eat or take 2 weeks pre op, e.g. garlic

miss understood, regarding the younger people and skin thing. as im a younger person i feel i should put my thoughts in. ive been told that any skin young or old is damaged if it has stretch marks and therefore wont lie complettly flat. but you can do toning exercises 3-4 times a week to help. hope this helps sarah

edel, i went through exactly what you are going through about 3 weeks ago, on my way back from the pre op check witht he nurse. i was feeling very upset about not being able to eat the foods i enjoy. e.g. choc digestives (my big downfall) but i think i am getting past that, because i have to change my life. i feel exactly how you feel about meating new people, however, i started my new job (lecturer) 9 months ago and in the end of sept we get another intake, for the new year and they are probably going to be sitting there judging me, but we can sand up tall and think the new people wont see us like we were, because even after that short ammount of time, and even it is only a couple of lbs, they wont ever get to see how we are now. i woke up this morning, completely freaking out, i mst have been dreaming about it, not sure which part, but i think it is all the life changes, because i dreamt about the actually operation the other week and i woke up feeling very relaxed. (i dont normally dream, so my mnd must be going over and over it) sarah ps does any one know why we cant click on our tickers to take us to the changing bit, as it is just putting it in the top of an empty page and i need to take 2lbs off mine. figured it out yesterday and i cant remember!!

edel, you saying your packing tonight has suddenly scared me, im not blaming you at all, but it has just made it real again. i was just plodding along on the pre op diet, not really thinking about friday. and now its 3 days away arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not sure if that is more nervous, or excited. think it is both. when are you due back into the UK? casscass, the ten days will go really quickly, from 10 days down to 4 has just been lots of planning, but it seems to have gone slower this last day. but try not to worry, i know that is easier said then done, especialy because i am such a worry wort!! the strange thing is, im not worried about the operation itself at the mo, even thoug ive never had one. it is all the changes that im going to have to do. jillbeme, i think you have hit the nail on the head with the dont know whether to laugh or cry comment. good luck on friday

edel, you will be fine, but i know exactly how you are feeling as my op is also on friday. i am havign mine in the UK, so do not need to worry about the flights etc. the people managing on a liquid pre op diet i think are amazing. i have a 1000 cal pre op diet, but atleast i can eat solid food. do you have to liquid after? i have to do 2 days liquid, 2 weeks liquidised (so technically liquid) and 2 weeks soft, mushy before going onto solids. good luck for friday, and try not to worry ( i know it is easier to say then do). sarah ps have you made sure youve got eerything you need, as this sorting has made it easier for me

its so tempting isnt it, to just have that 'last meal' or last binge, but try and stay focused now you are on the pre op diet. my issue is, because it is so boiling hot, i am eating loads of sugar free ice pops, they only contain 1 caloie and apparantly nothing else, but i still feel like i shouldn't be eating them. but its a toss up between feeling boiling and eating 1 calorie, which in my head, would take 1 calorie to eat it anyway. or am i just thinking like a fat person with that theory and thinking of excuses??

ive used arnica previously and it does work, however I have been told not to use it until the nurse checks my wounds a week post op.

i sat and watched it just now, so thank ful to the person who put it on for everyone to see. i also got distracted by how many before and after picture screen shows there are. one of them had surgery and just under a yr later she looks amazing and is a model in a bridal magazine.

ive been told no nail varnish on either fingers or toes. but nothings been said about anything else. but i do not wear mke up any way, so it wouldnt bother me. the deodarant would, especially as ive got to get a train there, for 4 hours!!!

cutiew, i think, personally, there is a limit to how much you can focus on the diets, otherwise you come obsessive about it. and i feel i am going that way. i have been given a food diary to write in what i eat, from the dietician. and i am writing in it as soon as i eat. im now debating whether myself whether to put the chewing gum in the diary, as this has a few calories. my sister and father have both been anorexic and my sister was bullemic. i am the complete opposite (obviously going through this process), but could these obsessive food thoughts be genetic? regarding your holiday, are you going to family or going away away? as if you are with family, as long as they know, then it might be a good place to keep you motivated. you will succeed, just keep working on it. Sarah

i bought the rosemary connely (sp) aerobics and toning video. have done it twice in the last two days. very unco-ordinated during the first attempt, but tonight i was alot better. it was great fun as well. sarah

i dont know about fish, cs only like tuna. but chicken has to be skinless, even though that is the best bit. and has to be boiled, grilled or baked hope that helps wel done on your loss

thanx cutiew, im following the drs instruction to the letter, so not sure how i am managing to miss out on quite that much protein. two days a go i wasnt very hungry at all at tea time so i only had a cup a soup and in the morning i was starving i nearly fainted, so even if im not hungry ive got to have some protein cos i do not want to wake up like that again. hows ur pre op diet going?

hi all i started my pre op today. have just imputted what ive eated onto the daily plate website and im meant to eat 1000 cals a day. i have put in what i am goignt o have for tea as well, and will change it tommorrow if i change my mind, however, this is following what the doctor has told me to eat and it is 700 cals, not sure why. it is also only 42.6g of protein? ive not been given an ammount of protein to be eating would be glad if anyone can shed some ideas? Sarah

ive got a week to go before my operation, start my pre op diet 2moz. bought myself some skittles and chocalate as a last treat and i would of preferred a tomato and basil cupasoup, as i seem to have become obsessed with them! im so impatient, am counting down the days, and just want it to be the day of the op, even though i know i will be nervous on the day. i did some aerobics for an hour last night, it was great fun and once i have postd this, i am going to go and do some more and try and not hurt my neck as i did hurt it last night.

ive got a week to go before my operation, start my pre op diet 2moz. bought myself some skittles and chocalate as a last treat and i would of preferred a tomato and basil cupasoup, as i seem to have become obsessed with them! im so impatient, am counting down the days, and just want it to be the day of the op, even though i know i will be nervous on the day. i did some aerobics for an hour last night, it was great fun and once i have postd this, i am going to go and do some more and try and not hurt my neck as i did hurt it last night.

hi if you go on pre op questions there is a thread for all august bansters, so lots of people going through this at the same time. i personally have found this group of people very useful. sarah

zukagirl, congrats on getting your date, bit annoying about your late surgery time though. ive only been given a time to arrive, which is 7.30am which they have drummed into me, does not suggest the surgery time as that is when everyone has to arrive. everyone with this company gets an overnight stay. so am taking lots of books with me, not sure if i will have the concentration to read them. have you got things planned for the morning to keep your mind occupied? Sarah

it is the strangest part of the process so far, saying 'goodbye' to all this food. i comfort eat and always have done and therefore i need to think of good things and lots of them, to avoid doing the whole comfort eating thing. last night i had a massive craving for a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich!! but as ive not had crisps in the house for coming upto 8 weeks and not eaten them in that time either i just told myself to have an apple instead. these cravings are weird, have a feeling they are going to get even stranger once im the official pre op diet from friday and my life changes forever!!

can you please put my location of berkshire, uk onto mine? as would love to know if there were people around here as there is no local support group. thank you sarah

ive just done something quite scary, bought my last lot of food shopping before my pre op diet starts on friday. not sure why that is scaring me, but i think it is because it means everything is so close

hi cutiew, i have had a look around and there is not a doctor closer, but am going to ask the surgeon when i have my op if that is a possibility as he obvious has different contacts to me. but after speaking to the nurse in my pre op, she said the dietician would work something out for me that if i had to wait that length of time, then it should be ok. Sarah

one of my reasons to start on this journey was my bra size-at a JJ, it is the one part of me i absolutly hate. and i am really hoping to go down to a D cup. do not know if this will be possible, but if i can lay on my back wihtout being suffocated, it will be a massive thing for me. i wonder how many bras i am going to have to buy as the weight comes off, as well as clothes. Sarah

the pre op i had on tuesday really reassured me, especially as it was that morning it finally hit me, what i was doing. i am now really excited and cant wait for august 1st. as we are on the same day, i will be very willing to be email buddies. Sarah

good luck, i hope it has gone as well as you hoped for. im counting down the days, cant imagine what the last couple of hours are going to be like. fingers crossed for a speedy recovery sarah