Hi, This is my first post but I have been reading on this site for the last several months. I have been scheduled for my surgery on May 1 in Salt Lake City. I am just under 5' 2", small/medium frame and weighed 219 at my last doctor's appointment. I was small and thin for the first 35-40 years of my life so I know what it is like to be small, but I have been overweight for so long now that I had honestly lost all hope of ever being anything but fat again. So now I find it hard to even imagine setting a goal weight. It would be nice to be small again, but I am realistic and feel it is more important to be a healthy weight for an "older" woman. (I'm very young at heart!!!!)

Looking forward to your support. I have learned so, so much from reading all your posts and I thank you all for your honesty.

So Hope, are you from Boise? I see you and Linda talking about Dr Anderson. And yup, all of the lapband surgeries are done by Cahn and Anderson together. Dr Cahn is my surgeon but Anderson assisted.

Thank you for the kind words about my progress. I'm glad it inspires others!

The food intake has been difficult I am on the mushies stage and I can only have about 3 tablespoons of food

i am still a bit swollen so ....

Next week i move to solids i will let you know how it goes

Good luck with the preop diet it is a b*tch