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Welcome Tracy! Good luck. I am from MI too, and I was banded at the end of July. Almost 10 weeks out, and have lost 42 pounds, both pre and post op combined.

hi everyone! I found your blogs! I am following those I could-I had a couple of button troubles, but I'll get it worked out. I am getting banded next week, and in the middle of the pre-op diet. Not too tough, but realy boring. I have started a blog, too. We'll see how it goes. Here's the address: Words of Weight

There seem to be many variations of “the” pre-op diet, some all protein shake liquids, some extreme low carb, some south beach, some medifast, some two shakes plus small frozen dinner, and some have none at all. . . But all seem to say they are for liver shrinking. Does anyone have any actual information to explain this? Is it low fat, or low carb, or just low cal that supposedly shrinks the liver?

I think you'll be fine, too. Staying within the carb/calorie guidelines is the main thing, and swapping the ham cole slaw for the protein bar seems the right way to approach it. Good luck!

My date is 7/28 and I begin pre-op on the 15th. I just ordered my unjury powder and my magic bullet blender is on its way. I am mostly ok with the pre-op diet. My doc does "full liquids" for 2 weeks. I'm nervous b/c we have a weekend at the beach in a hotel booked for that time. But after reading a lot on here and elsewhere about the wide variety of pre-ops, I think I will do two restaurant dinners with extreme low carb/low fat, but "real food". Like poached salmon and broccoli no butter. Or salad no cheese with grilled chicken and lf or no dressing. After a couple of days of protein drinks, this should taste like heaven yet still keep me on the straight path of pre-op diets. Those days will be early in the pre-op diet and I'll have 10-12 days of liquids only after that. Fingers crossed!

Hi Aggieamy! I am July 28th too! In Michigan. Good luck.

Hey eveyone! I'm July 28th in Michigan. Started researching in Jan and attended seminar in March. Looking forward to it! Mildly worried about family vacation when I'm on the preop diet. But if that's my biggest problem, I'm. a happy girl.

At the University of Michigan, with Dr Finks. Began the journey with a seminar in March, check off all my boxes, and got the call today. Any other future July 2010 dates out there?

In my final preop support group meeting on the topic of relatipnships. It's being said that post WL Surgery divorce rates are high--even 50%. Thoughts?

I just finished my pre-op nutrition class, and don’t have a dat6e yet, but getting closer. It sounded as if at my practice (U-Mich) I may not get a fill until 16 WEEKS after surgery. The dietician (who may be confused—god I hope she is)said there’s a 2-week post-op, then a 2 month post-op, THEN 4 weeks after that is the first fill. What?!? No wonder they say thier lap-band® patients are "unhappy" and push folks to RnY.

pearlgirl, I feel like I could have written your post. We are in exactly the same position--I am at the approval/waiting for date stage. And I have done my research and understand the risks/possibilities. You and I have the same starting weight, too. But in the last 2 weeks or so, I feel all I have heard about are the one who "don't lose" or for whom it "didn't work." It also feels like my whole team--at the University of Michigan--discourages folks from the band and moves them toward the RnY. Drives me crazy. They are of course a high-risk specialty and take those who others won't take. I am going to them because for me they are local and work well with my insurance. I feel it's a little like the c-section rates for pregnancy--if you have a surgeon then they feel more in control with a more extreme surgical option. And of course, it does work well--but it does so at a big cost: malabsorption and inability to eat some things, and the permanent rearrangement of your guts. In many ways it takes the control away from the patient. And those are the exact reasons I *want* a LAP-BAND® and not a bypass. The fact that a lap bander *could* still sit and drink soda all day or eat ice cream with impunity is, I'd bet, the reason the excess weight loss percentages are so much lower than for the more drastic options. I want to be in control of my choices—like I am now. I asked my surgeon why his numbers in MI/America were “success” numbers were so much lower than those studies I’ve read in medline and other places. He said that obesity in America is most likely because of sugar, and in Europe obesity is more often because of fat. This makes sense to me—and also makes me feel more secure in the band. But I, too, am worried that I may go through all of this and be one who does everything well and still not have the results I'm hoping for.