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Hi all im so excited i have tried every diet there and nothing helped i am a mother of 3 teenage boys and i weigh 276 lbs and i knew if i didn't try to do something about much weight i probably wouldn't live to see them get grown so i decided to look into having the gastric sleeve and after thing for the past six months thank God i got a surgery date today it will brought June 12 i am so excited

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I am new too and waiting for my date. Best of luck to you!

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Welcome and congrats on your surgery date!!!

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Welcome aboard Eager12. Will be saying prayers for you on your surgery day. Stay positive. Everything will get better & better :-)

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Good for you. I started my weight loss journey at 276 lost about 50 on my own doing Weight Watchers and then pre-op dieting thru Kaiser Options program, had the sleeve surgery almost 6 weeks ago....and this morning I was 216 pounds. Best thing I ever did was commit to getting healthy - and now I have my little tool to help me down this path. It's not a magic wand, but it helps ALOT. It's great that you are focusing on yourself. I finally learned to do that...I have 3 young adult children, and I am my new priority after decades of looking out for everyone but me.

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How are all you doing? This is my first post! I am currently in the process of getting my insurance approval. It was submitted on the 5-15-12. So I am told I will begin the 2 week pre- op diet on or about the 29 of may. I can't wait to get headed in the right direction. I'm a 34 male with two kiddos I want to be here for. I hope I can get off of these dang blood psi meds. Currently weighing in at297 I am 6'2". I really can't wait I read this forum all day at work.

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Welcome to both of you and congrats on your surgery date!! You don't know it yet but your life has just changed for the better!

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How are all you doing? This is my first post! I am currently in the process of getting my insurance approval. It was submitted on the 5-15-12. So I am told I will begin the 2 week pre- op diet on or about the 29 of may. I can't wait to get headed in the right direction. I'm a 34 male with two kiddos I want to be here for. I hope I can get off of these dang blood psi meds. Currently weighing in at297 I am 6'2". I really can't wait I read this forum all day at work.

Welcome Jason!!! Good luck in getting your insurance approval and getting to the next step. I bet your lil ones are going to be very proud of their daddy! Keep us posted.

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How are all you doing? This is my first post! I am currently in the process of getting my insurance approval. It was submitted on the 5-15-12. So I am told I will begin the 2 week pre- op diet on or about the 29 of may. I can't wait to get headed in the right direction. I'm a 34 male with two kiddos I want to be here for. I hope I can get off of these dang blood psi meds. Currently weighing in at297 I am 6'2". I really can't wait I read this forum all day at work.

Good luck hopefully you will get a surgery date soon, like u I too stay on here while at work.

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Hi Eager I am in Memphis glad to see someone else.....how did things go?

Things went very well, so when is your surgery, glad to see someone else on nearby as well.

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Hoping for mid August, I have 2nd weigh in Thursday, meet with surgeon 7/5, have psych eval, and nut assessment on 7/18, and last weigh in on 7/24.

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Hoping for mid August' date=' I have 2nd weigh in Thursday, meet with surgeon 7/5, have psych eval, and nut assessment on 7/18, and last weigh in on 7/24.[/quote']

Whose your surgeon

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HI Everyone! I'm new to this site. I'm a former Lap Bander -- had emergency surgery to have it removed on May 15. I wasn't able to eat or drink anything and was in horrible pain. I was already schedule for a revision surgery on June 13 but my band slipped and so May 15 it came out. Now I have to wait until September for my revsision surgery. I'm excited and neverous. I'm nervous bc I don't want to have a horrible experience like I did with the band. I was always having trouble and was in and out of the hospital for the past 9mo with band issues b4 it acutally slipped for good. So with this new surgery I'm hoping that life gets easier and the weight ACTUALLY comes off!! The whole non-reversible thing has me a little uneasy but I have to do something or i'll put on what little weight I lost with the band!!

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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