Are there any Australian Sleevers out there, Would Love to hear from you.

Hi All' date='

It has been a few weeks. I have been dealing with some health issues (non sleeve related) and havent felt much like posting.

Tho I am happy to see that everyone is progressing well and we have some newbies to our happy lil thread.

It is so interesting to me to hear you newbies talk about post op stuff, it all feels like such a blur to me nowadays, so yes it does get easier.

I am now struggling to maintain my weight, my portions are quite large (well comparatively to you know the first 4 months). I can finish an Entree size meal and feel soooo stuffed. In a day where I am not being careful about what I am eatting, I still emotionally eat (just less) I can consume up to 2000 calories. I am aware now that my weight is sneaking back up towards no my upper limit cause of some issues, tho surprisingly it is easier to control when i am aware of it...kinda random.

Liss, I am soooo happy to hear of your 75kgs loss you really are doing amazingly well and look amazing. Such a huge milestone to celebrate.....[/quote']

Great to hear from you Aussiegirl - hope you are fighting fit now. I am at maintenance now and it is now 10 months since my op. I notice that I can eat a lot more too so keeping my eye on my weight each week - so far so good.

I still forget to eat slowly so have to keep that under control - was sick tonight from eating too fast ! You would think I would have learned by now! It just shows how hard it is to get rid of those life time habits - eating fast or emotional eating - I was always used to wolf my food down!

I'm doing great today except I was busy this morning and forgot to drink much and now I'm behind on my Water. I might only get in 6 cups. I have my Protein and my 10000 steps though. Ad TMI but I had a real BM! Yay Benefiber!

It's good to hear from you, Aussiegirl!

First weigh in tomorrow. I can't believe it has been a week.

Congratulations Helen on your early release of super. I'm in private cover, but will still be out of pocket by about $6000 all up initially. I put in for early release of super just over 2 weeks ago, please let me know how long it took you for approval.

cheers, Raylee

Hi everyone,

It's great to hear your doing well Misty.

Well today was the first day of mt pre-op!! And OMG!!!! I'm soooooo hungry!!! I'm so over it already lol. But I have been so good by sticking to the diet to a tee! I'm trying not to think I have another 13 days to go lol. Oh well I keep telling myself that today is the start of a new and healthy ME!

Welcome to the newbies who have joined over the last week or so!

Congratulations, Bec! These two weeks will fly by SO FAST you will be amazed. From what I heard, if you don't cheat at all the hunger will go away in a day or two. Good luck!

Hi Raylee, I too have private health, but applied for super to cover out of pocket expenses. It took ages!!! Apparently it usually only takes about 3 weeks, but mine took about 6!!! They received my application 27/3 and it was approved last Friday. There were issues as they relocated offices and now they r behind. I recommend ringing them. I rang twice - firstly to make sure my app was received and then to check on progress. I will keep my fingers crossed for u!

On a different note I have my dietician appointment this Friday. I am excited!

On a different note I have my dietician appointment this Friday. I am excited!

Congrats on the dietitian appointment. What are you going to ask about? I have my second one tomorrow and he is going to prep me for purée foods next week.

Congratulations' date=' Bec! These two weeks will fly by SO FAST you will be amazed. From what I heard, if you don't cheat at all the hunger will go away in a day or two. Good luck![/quote']

Thanks Misty. I heard that too. I'm so going to stick this out so my op in 2 weeks time goes awesome. I just hope I recover as good as u!

Congrats on the dietitian appointment. What are you going to ask about? I have my second one tomorrow and he is going to prep me for purée foods next week.

There are just so many questions!!! I'm going to main ask about the pre-op stuff. I have done a lot of research prior to deciding that this is what I want to do, so I feel really prepared. I'm sure that will change over the coming weeks, but for now I'm really confident in my decision and just want it to all hurry up!

Hi everyone' date='

It's great to hear your doing well Misty.

Well today was the first day of mt pre-op!! And OMG!!!! I'm soooooo hungry!!! I'm so over it already lol. But I have been so good by sticking to the diet to a tee! I'm trying not to think I have another 13 days to go lol. Oh well I keep telling myself that today is the start of a new and healthy ME!

Welcome to the newbies who have joined over the last week or so![/quote']

Hi Bec, you will find that after a couple of days your actual hunger will disappear, although head hunger can still be a challenge. The time will fly now and you will be all done and joining us on the losers bench.

Hi everyone I saw my dietician again today about the horrible side effects of the Optifast Soup.I am intolerant to soy and that particular product is chock full of it! So now I am allowed to use optislim depending on the soy levels.He wants me to aim for one or two opti Meal Replacements a day and gave me a sheet with normal (but small amounts) foods to eat preop.Worse case I can drop all the opti if needed as long as I use the special diet.

Apparantly anyone with soy or lactose intolerances/allergies can get quite sick on the opti stuff.

Sending all my support to all of us who are on preop and liquid diets atm.We *can* do this!

Hi Bec' date=' you will find that after a couple of days your actual hunger will disappear, although head hunger can still be a challenge. The time will fly now and you will be all done and joining us on the losers bench.[/quote']

Thanks Kelli!! I'm still excited but am getting nervous now. Just the thought of going under. I'm just pushing through these next few days and just taking it one day at a time. I'm hoping my head hunger stays away but I reckon it will rear it's ugly head lol

Need your help guys.

The rational side of me knows that I need this to improve my life, my health, the example I set for my daughter and her unborn brother/sister, my marriage...

The emotional side is messing with me. It's all starting to get real. I have an endoscopy Thursday - no sweat, but it's one step closer to paying my deposit and saying "yes, I am going to be sleeved".

I keep thinking that the rest of my life is such a long time. I think about the happy times with family spent at Sizzler lol. I worry that I'm going to have to make such severe changes to my eating that the travel I do for my business, and even the lifestyle I lead while I'm at home is going to be severely compromised.

Getting this off my chest helps I guess, but I just need to hear (especially from other guys) that I'm not going to be constantly run down, that I'm going to be able to find something suitable to eat while I'm out and about (in time obviously).

I am realistic about this; I know change is necessary, but I'm just struggling to get away from the negative right now. What if I start to feel this way when I AM sleeved? It's too late then.

Hey Liss - I hope this doesn't make our friendship awkward' date=' but you look totally hot!

Just had to put it out there

Deano[/quote']

Lol you're too funny Deano though am thinking Aussiegirl and I might need to take a Roadtrip to Brisvegas for a set up with some cute coppers Still up for that Aussiegirl lol

great stuff Liss - you look amazing and unrecognisable from your former self - you look so much younger! Did you have to get your glasses adjusted - I have found that mine were falling off my head as my head and even my nose got much smaller!

Yeah - I normally wear contacts but I've had allergies and they were giving me fits so I went back to glasses but they keep falling off as they're too big