Brighton Belle

I alternated with streaming, being bunged up, and sneezing all last evening. I woke up this morning and it has practically gone! Tomorrow I have to set off for a 5 hour drive to Glasgow for the surgery on Wednesday, also paid the money today so thank goodness I do not have to worry about putting it off!

Just hope this is a 24 hour sneezy thing as I am due for banding on Wednesday. Started a runny nose and not sure whether this signifies a full blown cold or not...fingers crossed it will go away quickly. The streamier they are at the beginning the faster they usually go.:thumbup:

I am being done in Glasgow at the Nuffield by David Galloway. To tell or not to tell...I am not at all sure so that is why I am keeping it a secret at the moment. I am very interested in what other people have done about telling. Work knows I am off for two weeks but not for what for. I work part time but I am in a position where I go off on courses and study leave etc so no one that works for me has really questioned me about it. Struggling a bit with being hungry on the pre-op diet. A few more days to go.

Hi all of you September Bandits, I am going for my band on 090909 which seems a lucky date. I am not telling many people at all about this so will probably be using this forum for support and hope to do the same for others on here. I am 50 and am paying privately to get my lap banding done. I am a health professional and know how hard it is to get it done on the NHS in the UK. I am keeping it a secret from my patients because I feel rather awkward about it. My colleagues at work know about it and are supportive and in fact very interested. We already have one patient who went privately to have it done and I know of one other person in my area who is having a balloon then a bypass. I am keeping to the low carb, low fat, low just about everything glycogen-reducing diet till the op and the op is my big incentive. I read the book "The Lap-Band Solution" by Paul O'Brien and it was really enlightening. I have also got a recipe book for eating after weightloss surgery, that seems quite good. My inspiration for considering lapbanding was Fern Britton. Once I started reading about it, for me it seemed the perfect answer... :sneaky:

I too am getting banded on 9th September and getting quite excited. Doing the low carb low fat low everything diet to reduce the glycogen stores in the liver and although I am quite hungry the incentive of banding on Wednesday is keeping me going. The day I started the preop diet I weighed and measured myself (and should really get a photo) because I told myself it is the fattest day of my life, I will never be as heavy again. Wishing the best of luck to other 090909sters.