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Surgery Feb 10th - 1:45 pm

Took my before pics last night and WOW..........................What an motivating eye opener..........any doubt or fear of surgery I had is GONE......

good luck to everyone :D

Hi JMH80,

Completely forgot to take my pics before surgery :o mine was 1/14/11..............will do so this weekend. So glad you are more confident with having surgery now, today is a week for me and

and am amazed how quick time has gone by and so very happy that I had the surgery. Eagerly look forward to all the changes to come!

Best of luck to you:rolleyes:

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I hope I didn't offend by offering advice. I just wanted to help. :)

Hey TexasMama,

You didn't offend me at all.........LOL, I am just so new to all this and not very high tech, and I truly appreciate your help!!!!!!!!!:D Lori

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Is here anywhere on this site where ev'ery month could have a forum. I could swear I saw it somewhere. Then each person could post topics and we'd be able to see them. It wouldn't clog up this forum for others. I dunno...just thinking out loud. What do you think?

Congrats to everyone else who has a date and is approved. The time is going by fast!

Yes, pretty weird being told to just maintain. I am by no means thin or fit! I am miserable with my cpap mask and for that reason alone, I'm desperate to lose so I can get off this miserable thing! Not to mention, I'm uncomfortable, unhappy with my appearance...want off BP meds, etc.

I was LOL at one of the other posters who said..."let's kick fat's ass!" LOVE IT!!!

Congrats girl! THat is funny to make sure you don't lose weight.. but after being on this sucky liquid diet.. YOU GO GIRL!:lol:

We could create our own Yahoo Group does Google do groups too? That way we could just get them via email and respond right from our emails? What do you guys think? I could set it up... or does anyone have any other ideas? LMK

@Polly...welcome to the group hon!!

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Got the word today and Feb. 10 is my surgery date. Starting the pre op shakes this coming Wednesday. Yipes its getting close now :o

Congradulations bigtom1948,

I found the pre -op shakes very difficult stage, at first, then realized that it was only 10 days out of my life, that really helped put things in prescpective. It helped me so much going on this site and talking with people and there experiences. Wish you the best of luck:rolleyes: Lori

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Hey people, I'm being banded feb 7th and SOOOOO excited!! I can't believe it's a little over two weeks away. I'm 5'11 304lbs. Hoping to get down between 200-220 depending how I look ( I do enjoy some of my thickness!!). At first was only going to tell my parents boyfriend and closest friend but everyday that's going by I tell a person so by surgery date everyone will know!

I've met some great people on here and hope totake this journey with you, we can keep each other motivated!

Good luck everyone happy losing!

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Hey people, I'm being banded feb 7th and SOOOOO excited!! I can't believe it's a little over two weeks away. I'm 5'11 304lbs. Hoping to get down between 200-220 depending how I look ( I do enjoy some of my thickness!!). At first was only going to tell my parents boyfriend and closest friend but everyday that's going by I tell a person so by surgery date everyone will know!

I've met some great people on here and hope totake this journey with you, we can keep each other motivated!

Good luck everyone happy losing!

Hi Readi4anewme,

Welcome...........so happy for you the 7th is right around the corner! Best of luck to you :D

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My date is Feb 14th. I was able to pick this date. What a great gift I'm giving to me. I have done all the Med diet, physc etc and have my medical insurance approval. I go in on Feb 1st for PreOp review, diet (liquid?) physical and consent signing. I stay in the hospital overnight. Very excited. I feel it's all the "emotional" stuff that got me into this and have been working on that with a therapist and have started going to OA meetings. I just recently found this site and love it. I have had a lot of my questions answered and reassurance from reading posts on here.

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Got the word today and Feb. 10 is my surgery date. Starting the pre op shakes this coming Wednesday. Yipes its getting close now :o

Awesome! It's getting really close!! ROCK ON!!!

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Is here anywhere on this site where ev'ery month could have a forum. I could swear I saw it somewhere. Then each person could post topics and we'd be able to see them. It wouldn't clog up this forum for others. I dunno...just thinking out loud. What do you think?

Congrats to everyone else who has a date and is approved. The time is going by fast!

Yes, pretty weird being told to just maintain. I am by no means thin or fit! I am miserable with my cpap mask and for that reason alone, I'm desperate to lose so I can get off this miserable thing! Not to mention, I'm uncomfortable, unhappy with my appearance...want off BP meds, etc.

I was LOL at one of the other posters who said..."let's kick fat's ass!" LOVE IT!!!

I didn't know that there was something like that on here.. hmmm... I wonder how we find it on here or set it up? That would be so much easier than this!

I'm uncomfortable and unhappy with my appearance also. Can't wait to not look in the mirror and think "GROSS" LOL

Congrats to everyone else with their new dates and getting approved!! SOOOOO EXCITING!!

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Wooohooo! That is BRAVE! I am waiting until the day before my surgery before I do my before pic.

Well, I was having the whole "cold feet" issue once I confirmed my surgery date and I start my liquid diet Wednesday so I had to get it over with.....I'm glad I did!

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Got the word today and Feb. 10 is my surgery date. Starting the pre op shakes this coming Wednesday. Yipes its getting close now :o

SAME HERE! Surgery Feb 10th and I start my shakes Wednesday............can't wait hehe :blink:

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Well, I was having the whole "cold feet" issue once I confirmed my surgery date and I start my liquid diet Wednesday so I had to get it over with.....I'm glad I did!

Yah, that was smart to do! I guess I'll take my picture before Friday... Hopefully the camera doesn't have a heart attack from it! :blink::lol:

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Hey does everyone have a scale at home?? Mine broke years ago and I never got another one.. do you think I should get another one or does that make people become too obsessed with weighing themselves?

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Hey does everyone have a scale at home?? Mine broke years ago and I never got another one.. do you think I should get another one or does that make people become too obsessed with weighing themselves?

Yep, bought a Health-O-Meter just for this journey. I selected the green slide arrow on the dial and I can't wait for to reach the 200's and then perhaps getting off of these accursed hypertension meds.

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