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False Alarm! I just read the instructions in my binder and they say the day before surgery I can have broth and Protein drinks so I'm good. *whew*!!!

I actually just realized that I made a mistake. I don't know how big of a mistake it was but I had 2 Protein shakes today and I just went over the instructions and realize I was supposed to have only Clear liquids. Do you think that's going to be a problem? Now I'm more nervous than before! I did a liquid diet for all of the last 2 weeks and forgot to make it clear liquids. I think my liver is still smaller than it would be. Is it something I should worry about?

Well, the day has finally arrived. I am a bit nervous about everything, but I'm moving ahead. It's funny, I've had 2 surgeries before and I wasn't nervous at all, but this one is a much bigger deal. It will literally change every aspect of my life forever. My wife is excited and happy I'm doing it, and I'm excited by the possibility of being healthier and living longer for my daughter. Anyone have advice that can get me past the jitters?

I'll give up carbonated drinks and for an Irishman to give up beer is HUGE, but I will not give up caffeine! They will pry my coffee from my cold dead hand! Actually, it's either coffee or 5 hour energy.

I do and I was approved very quickly. I didn't even have a food funeral

I never got to do my food funeral. It all happened too quickly.

My surgery is Monday and I'm nervous and excited.

The Ninja blender is awesome

Great video blogs everyone!!! I'm subscribing to all of your channels and hope you will subscribe to mine. I'm no different. I just did my second entry today. Here are are number 1 and two!

I uploaded my 2nd video blog entry today. I hope you enjoy it and people find it helpful. Let me know what you think.

I do IT work which isn't very physically demanding but very stressful and difficult. I sometimes have to walk around the hospital but I'm supposed to walk anyway. I am going back to work in a week no matter what. Actually I'm going to have surgery on Monday and starting Wednesday, I'll work from home. If I can get up and walk around, I can get on a computer and do some work. I know this is brave talk for someone pre-op, but I'm hoping for the best.

I have the same problem with some of my friends and family. They told me to man up and just exercise and stop taking the "easy way out". I want to ask them, "Which part of removing 75% of my stomach do you think is easy? The pain? The discomfort? The stress of changing of every aspect of my life? The having to watch every single thing that I put into my mouth? The risk of Vitamin deficiency? The giving up of all of the foods I love? The feeling like an outsider when everyone around me is having fun eating and drinking? The having to relearn my body and how to eat? I've done very diet known to man, and taken every pill. I've done exercise, and lost 50 or more pounds multiple times only to gain 60 or more back. I'm tired of the roller coaster and I want it to end once and for all. I have emotional support from a few close friends and family, but most of my support comes from this website. So hang in there man. I'm here if you want to talk. My advice for the difficult family members is to avoid them temporarily until you are done with the process and are losing weight. They can't argue with results.

I am looking forward to the day I can get off my blood pressure, diabetes, and cholesterol drugs. My surgery is in 2 days. I'll be careful with my meds when I get out and visit my doctor if anything seems strange.

I can't lie. I'm having doubts. I am down over 20 pounds in 2 weeks. Could I do this on my own without surgery? I always thought it would be nearly impossible for me to lose 130 pounds on my own. Most of my weight is in my belly. Someone yesterday told me I should walk around the block because I just have a little "love around my waist". I've already committed to doing it. I want something that is going to last.

Two more days until my surgery and I'm starting to get nervous. I will do another rebuilding Paul! video today or tomorrow and get it posted before the surgery. I slipped up last night. I haven't eaten food in so long and I didn't time my protein shakes right so I was STARVING, so I ate a small piece of cheese. I immediately regretted it because it made my stomach hurt like crazy. It's all liquids from here on.

They didn't tell me to take the liquid meds before surgery. Those are for after the surgery. Prior to surgery I will take 1 pill with only enough Water as it takes to swallow it. Then they do the surgery 2 hours later. After the surgery they put a patch behind my ear to prevent nausea and have the liquid medicines in case I am still nauseous. They gave me the prescriptions prior to my surgery so I could have them all filled before surgery and I would have the pill I need to take before surgery and they STRESSED I can only have a tiny sip of water.

Quick correction: I initially weighed in at the hospital where I work and did my 2nd weigh in at home. It seems like my home scale is much kinder. I just weighed in on the samr scale I weighed in on the first time so I have only lost 12 pounds in 10 days, not 18. I knew it was too good to be true.

I'm down a little over 15 pounds in 10 days. It makes me question whether I should just stick to the liquid diet until I lose all the weight, but I know as soon as I started eating again, it would all come back plus some. Today was the first time I've ever tested my blood sugar and gotten under 200! It's still high at 178, but it's lower than I've ever seen it since I've been testing in the last 2 years. Yesterday was a lot easier for me in terms of making it through the liquid diet without feeling starving. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that I was SUPER busy at work and didn't have time to think about it. I love my wife so much for cooking fresh chicken stock for me and I really like having a hot cup of green tea before bed. Last night I felt like I had enough energy to go to the gym and exercise, but I got home at 7:30, had to do homework with my daughter and feed her, and work from 9 to midnight remotely doing IT maintenance stuff so there was no time. No work tonight so I'll see how I feel. My surgery is only 4 days away and the closer it gets the more real it feels. Unlike many of the people here who planned and worked for it for a six months to a year, from start to finish for me it's 2 months so I've had less time for it to sink in. In the area of TMI.... I had to poo last night for the first time in about 4-5 days and it felt like I was passing rocks followed by Water but I felt a lot better afterwards.

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Thank you so much. This is a very helpful post. I love all of the information. My hospital is giving me some sort of compression hose for my legs which are supposed to prevent blood clots. I've heard of other compression stuff to hold your belly together, but when I mentioned it to my RN, she said that's not good and stop believing what I read online.

I'm getting mine done at Marina Del Rey Hospital by Dr. Lyass.

Mine said the liver acquires fat and gets larger and harder and they can't lift it to work under it. The liquid diet shrinks the liver so they have easier access to work.

I'm on all liquids now but I am allowed broth so it's not that bad. I hope you are feeling better. I don't think the dizziness lasts long.

My wife is behind me emotionally but I can't expect her to change her lifestyle just because I am. It would be unfair for me to even ask. I will be surrounded by people eating foods I can no longer eat for the rest of my life. I should get used to it now. She has offered to tske time off work to care for me but I told her not to because I will having unpaid time off and because the nurse was very clesr with me about this not being a time to convalesce. I have to keep moving because I need to be back at work in 1 week no matter what.

I did my training class, orientation thing all day yesterday and was surprised when they told me that I would be discharged after only 1 night and that nausea wasn't going to be that big a deal. They said unlike a lot of other places that do the surgery, they provide a lot of medicine to prevent nausea and to treat it and it's normally not a big deal. I will go in at 11am on Monday, they start the surgery 2 hours later and it takes 45 minutes and I should be in my bed between 4pm and 5pm and they will release me the following day some time after 11am if I can hold down some Protein drink without being sick. They gave me a ton of liquid pain medicine, pills to take a couple of hours before I go there to coat my stomach and make sure I don't have nausea, capsules that I break into Water and stir up to treat nausea, and some more liquid to treat nausea, and when I get there they will put a patch behind my ear to also help with nausea and it will stay there for 2 days.