Hello Everyone! My name is Pat. I am a 51 yo home health nurse, wife and dog mom. I was a fat little kid, a chubby teenager, and morbidly obese since the birth of my first child. I have lost and regained 100 lbs twice in my life, and yo-yoed for years. I am on day 5 of a liquid pre-op diet. My surgery is scheduled for August 21st, I am plagued with severe headache and queesiness, but super motivated and well past ready to get this show on the road.

Hi Pat!

How exciting that you're taking control of your health with the help of the band You can do it!

Hi Pat! I am pulling for you.

Congrats to you!! I'm also getting the band on the 20th of August and starting my protein meal replacements tomorrow. Verryyy nervous because I don't want to be queezy or dizzy.. Oh well... We can do this!! Food will not take over our happiness and health!! Good luck on your surgery and I hope u have a great recovery!

I know how you feel, after my 3rd day of Protein shake only 3 times a day, it got easier. I got a headache a few times and felt sick to my stomach and that is when I would do another shake. What I did do which helped, was I used the crystal light lemon tea flavor and I would heat that up like I was having tea and that help to change the pace of just drinking the flavored Water. I would drink the heated flavored water in the morning replacing my usual decaf coffee and I would wait as long as I could before I did my first shake. The first 5 days I could wait until 10am with the hot flavored water. Then after that it was 9am. then I would stretch out the time before my second shake and also tried to stretch out the third so it was 9-10pm. I became consitpated and my doctor said I could have once in a while hot broth with Mrs Dash and eat brocolli. I also took lettuce and use the I can't believe it's not butter spray and it taste very good.

Now I am on my 3rd day on my clear liquid diet and I am starving and have hunger pangs. I am going to get through it and I keep in mind I will need this will power if I have hunger pangs while waiting for fills. I never thought I could do it. Only loss 9lbs on the liquid diet, but I am 25 pounds ahead of the game. Loss 16lbs on pre diet from May 22nd - July 14th. You can do it. Just keep busy. I stayed on this website the last 3 days.