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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 8th also. I feel pretty good. Yesterday i saw the Anesthesiologist and got my medical clearance. I started on my pre-op diet on 2\22 Optifast but i had to take another supplement with less carbs, Each carton contains 20gms of carbs and i will have to drink 5 for the day = 100gms of carbs. I have pcos and will nevwr lose weight on 100gms of carbs daily. I had to make my own adjusments. 40gms of carbs if i am ever going to lose any weight pre op. I am down 9 lbs so far. Its very hard , im struggling. Best wishes to all and all the best on the 8th.

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I will be banded on March 9th looking forward to the day after when its all done and over with so I can sop worrying so much :/

Looking for anyone who is getting banded the same day as me. There's something oddly comforting knowing that others will be having the procedure on the same day.

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Glad to see so many people will having the procedure on the 8th, or very close to it at least. I'll be thinking of all of you. It is comforting knowing that I'm not alone. This forum has been great. I have a great support team in my life, but really everyone here on this forum are truly the only ones that can understand what we're going through. Thanks everyone for "being there"!!

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I, too, am being banded on March 8!! biggrin.gif

This is my first post, so I guess I will introduce myself. My name is Rachel, I am 21 years old and I am being banded in Harrisonburg, VA. I haven't met anyone else who is getting it done there on here, but that's ok! We can still be each other's support from different places!

I started my liquid diet on Tuesday and so far it hasn't been so bad. There are days when I definitely miss chewing (the Multi-Vitamin just doesn't really cut it :P) and just wish I could have some food, but I know this is for the best and I can't wait for my surgery!!

I'm not really sure what else to say, if you all have any questions or anything, just let me know, I guess. I would love to get to know some of you and hear about your journeys. I love that we are all in this together!

Have a wonderful weekend. smile.gif

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    • Alisa_S

      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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