Anyone else getting banded in December? If so lets keep in touch until our day.

I needed to get my date changed and I decided to do Dec. 19. This way I will not have to take so much time off of work (sick days), but I can rest since I have the week off. I'm a teacher and posted about best time to have surgery and the advice I received was on a break so I'm going to go with it. I love this board.

My husband said but you won't be able to eat on Christmas, isn't that sad? I feel like if I'm going to do this, it doesn't matter. My first date Dec. 6 allowed me to not be out of comission on Christmas, but this will work out too. My health will be my gift to my family. Now if something goes wrong, right around the holidays, that's terrible but lets think positive.

I am getting plication with the band. Is anyone else?

I am so excited and nervous.

I'm a school nurse, so I will be off then too. I don't care about Christmas dinner either. If I could have done it sooner I would have, but I needed to wait until winter break.

I needed to get my date changed and I decided to do Dec. 19. This way I will not have to take so much time off of work (sick days)' date=' but I can rest since I have the week off. I'm a teacher and posted about best time to have surgery and the advice I received was on a break so I'm going to go with it. I love this board.

My husband said but you won't be able to eat on Christmas, isn't that sad? I feel like if I'm going to do this, it doesn't matter. My first date Dec. 6 allowed me to not be out of comission on Christmas, but this will work out too. My health will be my gift to my family. Now if something goes wrong, right around the holidays, that's terrible but lets think positive.

I am getting plication with the band. Is anyone else?

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I am getting the plication:)

I don't care about Christmas dinner either. I told myself you had plenty of Christmas dinners and pies

Yay me too dec10 i need some suggestions pleaseeeee

Suggestions about what

Hi, I'm getting banded in December (I hope)!!! It took forever for the insurance approval, and as a result I missed my appointment with the nutritionist last month. Now she can't see me until December 3. Once I see her, I have to follow a two week pre op diet. So, for now I'm cutting out carbs and soda. No diet coke for the last month and it wasn't too bad. I have also started protein shakes. Try the dessert protein by BSN. I mix the chocolate fudge with a soon of sugar free international instant coffee then blend with water and a little unsweetened almond milk. It is so good! Kinda a cross between starbucks frappachino and wendy's frosty.

I decreased soda but haven't given it up. I feel like I need to make small changes because these are huge changes for the rest of my life. I am inconsistent with eating healthy now. When I get 2 weeks pre surgery then I will be strict with the food. My nutritionist said for now to practice stopping eating before I get full. I haven't made a big effort to do that, but it makes sense. Maybe I'll start that with dinners. For now, I eat until I'm full. It's so exciting and nervwrecking at the same time, to make major life changes. It's just weird to think I will think of food differently forever.

Me me! December 20th. So liquids for Xmas and I just don't care I'm too excited about the thought of losing weight! I'm in Australia but would love to stay in touch with the December Crew!

Come on in Lila. We're glad youre here. My surgery date is December 6th.

Is anyone good at organizing a group member heading list with our names, surgery dates and anything else we think will help us in this thread (our state, plication, pre op diet start date, maybe starting weights and goals if people are comfortable)? I remember when I was on a pregnancy board with my first child we did that with due dates instead of surgery dates. It helped us remember who was who, etc. and made it exciting as our day got closer.

I haven't searched other bandster months to see if they do this. If yes, maybe they can help us get an idea of how to organize.

Am I making sense? lol I'm so tired.

dec 14th.. i live in Houston, tx..have the herina removal lap band surgery

Hip, hip, hooray! I got my date, December 6. I'm so excited, I've been fighting with the insurance company for approval so long I was beginning to think it would never happen. So now just over three weeks away. I'm looking forward to taking this journey with the rest of you and keeping in touch along the way.

Sheila I'm December 6th too! Woo hoo!

I'm a December 6th girl! I'm so excited/scared/nervous! I have to have a hiatal hernia repair also.....I need encouraging words! Soooo ready!