Day 1 of the start of my new life:

So today is day 1 of my pre-op diet... I'm wondering how I will be able to live on yogurt and still stay sane for the next 10 days! I decided to get a slimband, because my mom has a LAP-BAND® and has seen great sucess (I think she has lost about 70Ibs, and has been able to maintain it for the last 3 years), also because I want to be in control of my life, and because of my family's medical history. I keep having these "what am I doing" and "isn't this a little extreme" thoughts, but at the same time I'm really excited about it (I can't wait to be able to control my eating!). I was so excited about it one day that I told 3 of my co-workers, 2 of them were like ok, whatever... and one of them is now watching me like a hawk, great:unsure:. Most people have been supportive, my mom, my husband, a few close friends. So far the journey with slimband has been a fairly smooth one, and the folks there have been awesome.

Good Luck to everyone!

I love mayo! It makes things super mushy! Egg salad, tuna salad (that's all I've eaten with mayo so far) Each phase makes me feel more human... I can't wait until I can actually start introducing more solid food

lol...i love ranch too! lol.

Ranch... I didn't even think about that! I'm really excited about being able to have a salad tomorrow... start of the solid food phase! I never thought I would be excited about salad :grouphug:

I am in my two week after surgery, I did 2 week diet prior and I already lost 20lb, just hang in there.

By the way, let me ask you where did you download the weight chart w/sticker. I dont know how to do it.thanks,

Great job being down 20 lbs! go to tickerfactory.com then it walks you through step by step on setting up your ticker. Once you're done it will give you a URL to copy and paste into your signature on this forum. When you need to update your ticker, you just double click on it and it takes you to a page to update it. I know there is a better thread on this forum for getting your ticker uploaded... when I find it I will let you know

http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f5/how-get-ticker-your-signature-16218/

this is the link to the thread that I was talking about for your ticker... I found it helpful