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rcain03@hotmail.com    1

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I know how you feel. I felt like I was a crackhead getting sent to rehab! I even felt a bit depressed and pissed for a couple of weeks after my surgery. Now, I feel great and it gets better as time goes on because I can see the weight loss now! Don't worry, you will do great! It's hard to do something so nice for yourself sometimes! =)

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In my line of work I see a lot of abusive relationships. Mostly women being physically abused by their lover. That is how I am looking at this banding thing.

1. I am in a relationship with something that I love that makes be feel horrible about myself, makes me hate myself for the way I look, and something that makes me so dependent that I think I can't live without it.

2. If I was in a person to person relationship with someone that made me feel like that I would need to leave, or die. Case in point, I love food, and it abuses me, or I abuse myself with it.

3. In bad relationships the one being hurt always feels like it will be better this time, this time I can control him/her, this time it won't happen again. Will I abuse food again if I decide not to get banded....yup probably. Will I continue in this pattern for the rest of my life....yup probably.

On September 13th I am divorcing food, I am deciding the the relationship we are in is not working for me. Am I going to have a break up phase...yup probably....am I gonna recover and learn to love ME again....yup FOR SURE!

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My surgery is in 12 days and as much as I want this for myself, I am just as nervous, too! All your fears are justified and are completely normal. Looking back, in say 6 months - we will all be in a different world, living a different, much healthier and slimmer life. I send prayers for safe travel, procedure and recovery. We can do this. :smile:

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BeachBabe    0

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I love the abusive relationship analogy! You go girl.

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SarahMarie123    0

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I did it! I am banded! I have a pain build (like a cathedar attached to my belly to help with the pain. I am also on painkillers.

I get up and waslk every 3-4 hours. This is not too bad.

:smile:

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I did it! I am banded! I have a pain build (like a cathedar attached to my belly to help with the pain. I am also on painkillers.

I get up and waslk every 3-4 hours. This is not too bad.

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Woohoo!!!! Congrats Sarah!!! I am soo happy your doing good. I also had my surgery yesterday and other then feeling sore I feel great. I am up and walking a lot.. my surgeon told me that it will also help the soreness of my tummy feel better. I to had a pump put in my belly for pain meds but had to pull that out last night due to it leaking. I was nervous about taking it out and thought I would for sure be in worse pain without it but so far so good :smile:

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SarahMarie123    0

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Awesome Mandyrae!

I am sorry they had to take out the pain pump. Mine is still in, however I am still taking my full dose of painkillers :smile:

Yay!

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Congratulations, SarahMarie and MandyRae!!! Good Luck to you!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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