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By Minnmor, May 5, 2011 in Tell Your Weight Loss Surgery Story

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Posted May 5, 2011

Hi everyone ~ I am new to this website so still figuring it all out! I got my band on April 12th and have had ups and downs ever since, but each day is a new day and each step forward is one that I look to! Three weeks post op, I am still not eating too much which I think it's contributed to anxieties of the fear of getting hiccups or it coming back up. A week post op I did get dehydrated and had to get fluids, after that I was great for a week, until those hiccups came after my post op appointment .. spent 4 days in pain from those as they caused an air bubble that was huge. But my nurse at the doctor's office is great, she got me on the path to recovery and now I feel great, I even have hungar pains today. I switched from a milk based Protein shake to a juice based and I am doing so much better getting Protein in each day! Each day is a new day, I look forward to the years I have ahead of me to be in good health and spend with my family and friends. I started my band journey 3 years ago, researching and waiting on insurance. My insurance finally came through this year! A year ago, I was 314lbs, today I am 258, and my first fill isn't until May 31st. I am proud of that accomplishment.

If anyone has had struggles during their first few months, please let me know I am not alone. My doctor actually talked to me yesterday about removing my band becasue of my highs and lows with they way I have been feeling since my post op. (Those dang hiccups) - I emailed him and the nurse today to let them know my new nectar Protein I started yesterday made me feel much better and compared to yesterday I am 100% better - again highs and lows! I can do this, change is good, and the new journey every day is good.

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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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- 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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  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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