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Call your doctor. Tell them what happened. The worst thing they will probably do is push your date back a little (and I doubt that).

The bigger issue for me is the self-sabotage stuff. We all do it - that's why we are getting banded I suppose. Instead of feeling guilty, resolve to talk to your doctor and get back on the program - and LOVE YOURSELF and give yourself the BEST ODDS!!!!!!!!! You can do it.

plz dont worry 2 much once u have one week of preop dieting ur usually ok xxx good luck im on my diet 2 its extremely hard :thumbup:

Can't help but warn you that the band won't eliminate your cravings for those foods. It isn't like a light switch. All the food demons you have now will follow you into bandland.

You'll have to manage those demons or you'll be eating and cheating in short order. The band is only a tool and it can be manipulated to eat all of the things you mentioned.

Good luck and stay focused on the goal!

Brad

im being banded on the 8th aug starting my preop diet 2mrw :rolleyes2:

The first 3 days were hell. Constant headache, light-headed, weak as puppy pee.

Yesterday I started drinking some coffee with Splenda and skim milk and that helped a lot. Now that I've got a good "food" schedule figured out I think I'll be OK.

I'm sure my body was/is going thru shock also.

dave

hi i start my preop diet 2mrw milk and yougart, which diet did u do?

I told some friends but not my mom, dad and sister. I did not think that they would be positive so I did not include them in this. What I did do was this...I also had a hiatal hernia so I told them I was going into the hospital for THAT and I was going to be on a special diet for a while since i was having stomach surgery. Now they have not noticed the 8 pounds I have lost since 7.15, but when they do start to notice I'm shrinking I'll tell them that the liquid dite helped me get motivaed to lose weight....thats my story!!

i kno exacly how u feel, i told my mum shes coming with me and a few friends but now i wish that i hadnt told anyone you are best keeping it to yourself that way no one can annoy you, and judge you i am due 2 go 2 a wedding 4 weeks after my surgery, which i kno people will talk, its hard but its your decision, good luck x

im having my surgery on the 8th of august in dolan park by the hospital group x

Well, I had my band on Feb 11th, and am about 2 lbs lighter now than I was then. The £6000+ package I paid for included 2 years of aftercare, but I wish I had not taken their aftercare. You get nonsense phonecalls from dieticians, who don't know their jobs. I was told to snack on cheese and crackers (low-fat cheese, but still very high in fat), and eat paella, fish in breadcrumbs and fruit and fibre Cereal, all of which I did, but none of which filled me up, and I found if I cheated with fish and chips etc I could still eat just as much as before.

I told them I had a problem with portion size, which I hoped the band would help me with, eg I can eat 6 fish in batter in one go. I don't always do that, but I can eat a lot in one go. Their answer, "you need to adjust your portion size". Er,,, yes, but you could have told me that before I paid £6300 or what ever the price was.

As I still didn't have restriction, I have been for a number of fills, and at one fill, there was no X ray machine and they couldn't find the port, and after stabbing all over my stomach (which I regard as assault, battery and actual bodily harm), decided that they couldn't do it, and just sent me home, as if my travel expenses were neither here nor there.

I have now been transferred to Colette in their manchester clinic - I find her about a thousand times better than the other person, and she managed to find my port. Also, she told me only to have cheese and crackers once a week, and never to have paella, fish in breadcrumbs or fruit and fibre cereal - the 100% reverse of what the mickey mouse dietician had told me.

I still don't have proper restriction. I could easily eat fish and chips right now, but I am feeling more positive after meeting Colette and trying her foods out. I have boiled egg in the morning. I find 3 boiled eggs fills me up until lunch time. They are full of Protein, and much better than what I was having (the fruit and fibre they told me to have). New potatoes, baked potatoes, low-fat Alpen bars - these are all producing a greater feeling of fullness.

So I am hoping it will get better from now on. Unless you are seeing Colette, I would say the THG aftercare package is legally fraudulent. If I don't get proper restriction after a few more band fills, then I want to explore legal options. Colette told me not to have Tesco pizzas any more (they were not very high in calories, carefully chosen not to be an oily pizza: it was the Tesco Pizzeria Barbecue chicken, 385 calories and 5g of saturated fat per half-pizza), and so I have followed her word, but before then I was easily able to eat a whole pizza in one go - and then still be hungry - and I don't think that should be possible on a band. To say "you shouldn't be eating that" is not a sufficient THG response. I regard this company as essentially negligent.

oh no i am due 2 have my band done by them on the 8th of august iv already found that they are hard 2 get a hold of, were were u banded? il be in dolan park,

Hello

My surgery date is set for August the 4th. I am feeling anxious and a little afraid of the unknown right now. I am excited to get to a healthier place.

hi my surgery date is august 8th, were are u having your band done?

August 9th for me!!!

I am concerned though...i havent been put on any diets??? i had my pre-op testing done 2day...which was the absolute worse!!! Anybody else out there not on a diet

hi i am being banded on the 8th of august in dolan park, i have my preop test tomorrow morning they havnt put me on a diet either can i ask what happens at a preop test