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I have my surgery on the 15, and i am doing the pre-op diet right now2-3 protien shakes and 1 meal with with lean meat and and some greens, though i have been blending up most of my greens into my shakes as i don't like them much.

But i am on day 5 of the diet and have only lost 3lbs. I have a low bmi of 34, so not sure if this is part of the problem.,

I was told to lose 5%, so about 11lbs, but i have read some people lost 15 in a week? if thats the case, i am not doing well at all.

Tania

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Weight loss can be slow with bandsters who have a low BMI however I started with a BMI of 33 ( but didnt do a pre op diet). After I was banded I lost 20 lbs in my first post op month. Within 4 months I had lost about 55 lbs.

It is the last 15 pounds that are killing me, not the first. Don't worry if you don't lost a lot before being banded. As long as you follow your doctors orders, have a good diet and exercise you will lose your weight.

Also don't be discouraged if you weight loss is slow. We all lose differently but get the end result that we are hoping for. You can do this :thumbup:

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I have my surgery on the 15, and i am doing the pre-op diet right now2-3 protien shakes and 1 meal with with lean meat and and some greens, though i have been blending up most of my greens into my shakes as i don't like them much.

But i am on day 5 of the diet and have only lost 3lbs. I have a low bmi of 34, so not sure if this is part of the problem.,

I was told to lose 5%, so about 11lbs, but i have read some people lost 15 in a week? if thats the case, i am not doing well at all.

Tania

hi i got my band 2 days ago and i dont even want to look at food it hurts so bad i dont want anything but im on a liquid diet for the next to weeks and my doctor said i would loose maybe 20 pounds i have lost 3 pounds in 4 days just being on liquids yesterday i ate 3 bites of yogurt and was full:scared2:

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I lost very little on the preop diet. I'd been lowcarbing for long enough that my body just didn't purge tons.

But the aim of the diet isn't loss--though it's often a side effect. It's to reduce the liver's glycogen stores so that the organ is smaller and the surgeon can more easily manueuver.

Don't focus on the number. If you look at my stats, you'll see that little losses on the preop diet aren't predictive of future banded success :thumbup:

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mom1980's,

i was getting the impression from all the posts that the pain wasn't too bad, now i am worried again.

Everyone else, thanks for the advise.

Tania

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Bob, don't worry about the pain. With medication, it's easily manageable.

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All that loss for preop all depends on multiple things.

what matters is how you lose when you have the band! :biggrin: Im so excited its unreal. I have wait until december it seems so far away.

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The best thing you can do for yourself is to not compare yourself to others. How fast you lose depends on a number of variables including how much muscle you have, your activity level, whether you're insulin resistant, yada yada.

Same with the pain level postop. Some people talk about taking pain meds for several weeks after surgery. Others, like me, never needed them even when asked in the Recovery Room...and I can be a big baby when it comes to pain.

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For myself, I lose 19 lbs pre-op. However, in the past week and a half of being banded I've only lost 6 lbs being on clear and full liquids. It's a long process but I know I'll lose more once I get my first fill and get restriction. Best of luck to you! :)

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You're doing good by losing 3lbs in 5 days.

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Thanks Lemonchick, but now i am worried, this weekend is canadian thanksgiving, and i went to my family dinner planning of eating the salad i brought and some turkey, but shockingly enough i ate more, way more. now i only have till friday to get back on track.

i have been reading that some people doing only the protine shakes, and i think I am going to have to switch to that now for the last 4 days.

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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

        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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