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Hey Everyone! Glad I found this group! Today I found out I was approved!! Wohoo!! I am too exicited!! Looking forward to reading you all's post so i can prepare myself!!!

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Congratulations THYCK747!

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Congrats!!

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, my sleeve is tomorrow! Its only a dayyyy aaawwaaaayyyyy! (thanks Annie). In 25 hrs I will begin a new book in my Life. I cant wait! Thank you God for this blessing!

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hello all!!! My surgery date is June 4th!! I am excited and very nervous. I have to loose 10 pounds before surgery or he said he will cancel. i am nervous I won't be able to do it and keep it off. I am good for loosing 10-15 pounds and I am great for gaining it all back plus another 5. He didn't give me a pre op diet but I think I should just do the post op diet. My only other problem with the post op diet is that I have a sales conference with my job for the first week in May and i don't want anyone to know and I don't want to be starving around all these people. Then mother's day weekend i am going out of town with my family who are so unsupportive. i think I just need words of encouragement. my hubby gives them to me, but I just don't know.

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Hello everyone,

I'm so glad to have found this group.. I am 8 weeks post op. First 4 to 5 weeks was very difficult for me.

Reading through all the posts help tremendously.

Looking forward to receiving more good information and hopefully sharing some as well.

Have a good day all!!!

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hello all!!! My surgery date is June 4th!! I am excited and very nervous. I have to loose 10 pounds before surgery or he said he will cancel. i am nervous I won't be able to do it and keep it off. I am good for loosing 10-15 pounds and I am great for gaining it all back plus another 5. He didn't give me a pre op diet but I think I should just do the post op diet. My only other problem with the post op diet is that I have a sales conference with my job for the first week in May and i don't want anyone to know and I don't want to be starving around all these people. Then mother's day weekend i am going out of town with my family who are so unsupportive. i think I just need words of encouragement. my hubby gives them to me, but I just don't know.

Have you ever tried Weight Watchers? I am confident that you could lose 10 by then following one of their plans. Good luck to you!

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To tiredoffat, I went on a clear liquid diet drinking Protein Shakes, juices and eating sugar free Jello and I lost 9 pounds in less than two weeks. I was only required by my surgeon to be on Clear Liquids the day before the surgery, but I went on it for about 10 days.

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Guest babygirl901

Hello all. I am in Memphis, TN. After a year of appts, a pysch consult, nutrition classes, and support groups.....i finally meet my surgeon on Wednesday. I. am SOOOO nervous. Are any of you in Memphis or close?

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Hello All,

I am new to this group, I am currently five days post op and I tell you this Head Hunger is a Beast!!!! But it is one I am going to beat. I have been keeping myself busy, I love reading and writing stories and poetry and this has helped tremendously. I am looking forward to supporting and receiving support from all of you.

Congrats to you Delta on getting approved. I wish you much success on your journey.

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Hello All,

I am new to this group, I am currently five days post op and I tell you this Head Hunger is a Beast!!!! But it is one I am going to beat. I have been keeping myself busy, I love reading and writing stories and poetry and this has helped tremendously. I am looking forward to supporting and receiving support from all of you.

Congrats to you Delta on getting approved. I wish you much success on your journey.

Congrats to you! Stay strong and all will fall into place before you know it.

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Hello All!

I'm 2 days shy of being 6months Post Op. Down 73 lbs( including pre op weight lost). I was a size 18 the day of my surgery (Nov 9,2011) and today I am a size 12. Looking forward to my last 47 lbs lost and hoping to be a size 6 or 8.

I've posted a before and after photo in my profile.

Hopefully that's a little motivation for you all :)

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Awesome job Ericka!!! I'm trying my darnedest not be a slave to the scale!!! I'm down about 50 including pre-op.... Trying to not be so paranoid about eating and stuff... UGH.. it's so hard!! But I love my Sleevina.. I'm down from a 30/32 to a 22/24.. mostly 22s now!!

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Hello Everyone,

I'm so glad to find this group! I'm a pre-op VSG patient awaiting Blue Shield of CA INS approval. I've begun Protein trials, stockpiling bullets, shots and bars...stepping up my Multivitamin & supplement intake. I look forward to connecting with other African American Sleevers who are pre and post-op.

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I am so excited for you Ericka! This is awesome. :D I am looking forward to the day when I can post the same. I am so glad I found this group, you all give me so much hope and inspiration. Thank you for the encouragement to stay strong. I am happy to say that today is a lot better. By Thursday I start stage two of my diet. I am looking forward to it but also a little nervous. I am not sure why but I am. I know I will do well but sometimes the thought of maybe not being ready yet creeps into the back of my mind. I'm sure I'll be okay. CONGRATS to you again, and Thank you for the encouraging words.

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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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      1. LeighaTR

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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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      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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