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hey everyone i have my first consult with my surgeon on Friday and I could not be more excited its sooo amazing knowing that in a few months i will hopefully have my surgery and then in a 6 months from now i should be feeling like a new women I cant wait. LOVING LIFE RIGHT NOW!

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i know how you feel i was so excited for my first appointment because until then it didn't really seem real to me... i also have to do the 6 months well 5 now :) and the anticipation is really overwhelming. maybe we can keep in touch and track our journey together.. good luck and i wish you the best....

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hey everyone i have my first consult with my surgeon on Friday and I could not be more excited its sooo amazing knowing that in a few months i will hopefully have my surgery and then in a 6 months from now i should be feeling like a new women I cant wait. LOVING LIFE RIGHT NOW!

Good luck to you. To qualify for my insurance to cover the surgery I had to lose 10% of my starting weight, take a weight management class and hav psychological counseling and it took a little over a year. When I first started they required a year and have since relaxed their time frame. I am scheduled for surgery on October 17th and I can hardly wait. I am on day 4 of my pre-op diet and it is not as bad as I thought it would be.

Good luck to you both!

Debora

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thank you both and yea my insurance just required that i meet with a counselor once then with the nutritionist for six weeks and then for a doctor approval letter.

I am soo excited we should be meeting and talking about what the operation will be like and discussing when and what needs to be done next i am still excited to get a better time frame i cant wait omgoodness and oct 17 thats amazing good luck dear

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yes that would be great i think everyone needs a partner in this journey and it would be amazing to have someone standing by me who knows what i am feeling!

i know how you feel i was so excited for my first appointment because until then it didn't really seem real to me... i also have to do the 6 months well 5 now :) and the anticipation is really overwhelming. maybe we can keep in touch and track our journey together.. good luck and i wish you the best....

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I know the feeling because sometimes the people that have already been through this forgot the excitement that they felt in the beginning...but girl I am right there with ya!!!

yes that would be great i think everyone needs a partner in this journey and it would be amazing to have someone standing by me who knows what i am feeling!

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thanks it feels great to have such great support here

I know the feeling because sometimes the people that have already been through this forgot the excitement that they felt in the beginning...but girl I am right there with ya!!!

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i had my apt this am and it was great my doc said because i am lucky enough to have military insurance that i should be able to have my surgery way sooner then most we are looking at mid dec to mid jan time frame we will decide at my next apt after my sleep study and everything like that!!

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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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    • 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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