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Surgery scheduled for April 6, 2011

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newme4611    11

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Hi my name is Loretta and I am new to this board :rolleyes:. I am 49 yrs old and have been struggling with my weight almost my whole life. I have been morbidly obese for the past 25 years (overweight when I got pregnant with my one & only daughter and have been yo-yo-ing ever since). I am an ovarian cancer survivor- 4yrs and counting. I have tried so many diets in the past with my most successful being WW. I lost 65 lbs in 2007 but after being diagnosed with Hashimotos (hypothyroidism) in Jan '08 I really struggled to lose. I became frustrated with my lack of progress and gined it all back and am now at my highest weight. In July 2010 when at a routine check-up with my oncologist I began talking about WLS. One of the receptionists had just gone through bypass and she looked great. She gave me the name of her surgeon. Of course it took another month for me to actually call him. Went to his WL seminar with my mom in September and I was off and running. I made the decision to go the Lap Band route because for me it was the bteer choice and less invasive. I jumped through all the hoops and I was approved within 2 days! Yippee! My surgery is scheduled for April 6th (the day before my 27th wedding anniversary- so we will be celebrating it on Tuesday March 22 since my 2 week pre-surgical liquid diet starts on the 23rd)

I'm very excited and nervous for what is about to finally happen. I'm so ready for this! :lol: I look forward to reading and participating on this board.

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Kristi Twisti    18

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Congrats and Good Luck!! Enjoy your Anniversary dinner! You'll miss the food during your liquid diet but seeing the weight start to dissappear is so worth it!! :Dancing_wub:

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Kymba    1

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I am so excited for you..I am also having my surgery (lap band) April 6th. I am very happy for you...and certainly wish you the very best!!!!!

Hi my name is Loretta and I am new to this board :rolleyes:. I am 49 yrs old and have been struggling with my weight almost my whole life. I have been morbidly obese for the past 25 years (overweight when I got pregnant with my one & only daughter and have been yo-yo-ing ever since). I am an ovarian cancer survivor- 4yrs and counting. I have tried so many diets in the past with my most successful being WW. I lost 65 lbs in 2007 but after being diagnosed with Hashimotos (hypothyroidism) in Jan '08 I really struggled to lose. I became frustrated with my lack of progress and gined it all back and am now at my highest weight. In July 2010 when at a routine check-up with my oncologist I began talking about WLS. One of the receptionists had just gone through bypass and she looked great. She gave me the name of her surgeon. Of course it took another month for me to actually call him. Went to his WL seminar with my mom in September and I was off and running. I made the decision to go the Lap Band route because for me it was the bteer choice and less invasive. I jumped through all the hoops and I was approved within 2 days! Yippee! My surgery is scheduled for April 6th (the day before my 27th wedding anniversary- so we will be celebrating it on Tuesday March 22 since my 2 week pre-surgical liquid diet starts on the 23rd)

I'm very excited and nervous for what is about to finally happen. I'm so ready for this! :lol: I look forward to reading and participating on this board.

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newme4611    11

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Good luck to you too!

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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
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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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        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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