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ThinSIstaSoon    2

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I'm on my way to the city to stay overnight. Surgery is tomorrow @ 9 a.m.! It's snowing and there is a blizzard warning. My step daughter hurt her foot at school, my boyfriend had a late drs appt putting us on the road late, and I feel like I'm getting a sore throat. I hope God isn't trying to tell me not to do this...

We got here safely and I'm excited to have my last thing of yogurt and Protein Shake for supper. I've lost 15 lbs on my pre op liquid diet and feel my sciatic pain getting better.

I drank my magnesium citrate at noon and had my first ever experience with poop pouring out of me..

but my colon is clean for surgery! Lol

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Libbyjane1976    1

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Congratulations on changing your life!!! Good luck tomorrow.

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isaviolinist    11

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Much luck tomorrow!!

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ThinSIstaSoon    2

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Well surgery was at 10 a.m. this morning and went beautiful! Love my doctor for sucking out the gas, etc! No gas pain and I think its a good time for a nap! I've already peed twice and went for a walk! :)

When I weighed in this am I had lost 13 lbs on my pre op diet!

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Kiskis    56

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That is stressfull! Glad you made it ok. It will all be fine! Good luck! I get banded on Wednesday but I m only 30 mins away from the clinic. Keep us posted.

K

I'm on my way to the city to stay overnight. Surgery is tomorrow @ 9 a.m.! It's snowing and there is a blizzard warning. My step daughter hurt her foot at school, my boyfriend had a late drs appt putting us on the road late, and I feel like I'm getting a sore throat. I hope God isn't trying to tell me not to do this...

We got here safely and I'm excited to have my last thing of yogurt and Protein shake for supper. I've lost 15 lbs on my pre op liquid diet and feel my sciatic pain getting better.

I drank my magnesium citrate at noon and had my first ever experience with poop pouring out of me..

but my colon is clean for surgery! Lol

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Kiskis    56

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That is awesome! Keep us posted! I get banded on Wed :). See you on the other side.

K

Well surgery was at 10 a.m. this morning and went beautiful! Love my doctor for sucking out the gas, etc! No gas pain and I think its a good time for a nap! I've already peed twice and went for a walk! :)

When I weighed in this am I had lost 13 lbs on my pre op diet!

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ThinSIstaSoon    2

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My doc says it only takes an extra 2-3 minutes but most surgeons don't take the time to do it...sad that they don't realize it helps their patients so much! My doc is so down to earth, hasn't let his credentials go to his head!

The best part is I'm at 288 this a.m.!!! Have only been walking to shop and to loosen up a bit. :)

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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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