Good morning June Sleevers.

I know everyone has different doctors & each one of us will be expected to do something different for their pre-op diet.

I started my first day of 14 day New Direction (3x's a day) pre-op diet. I picked two variety packs with chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, hot cocoa, cream of chicken Soup, plus I picked a few boxes of the strawberry, chocolate and chocolate with Fiber which may help a bit. This morning I had the hot cocoa, it was kind of whatever tasting, it's mixed with Water. I'm used to drinking the Pure Protein 100% whey Protein Frosty shake with Skim Milk, which I absolutely love and have had for Breakfast every day for the last 6 months. I can't wait until post-op to go back to them lol.

I went to the grocery store this morning and picked up sugar-free Propel (Black Cherry), Sugar-Free Popsicles and Sugar-Free Jello, another box of Truvia and some Decaff tea.

I weighed myself this morning after my decaff & hot cocoa. I gained three pounds since yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday I had my normal breakfast shake, I had a Turkey Sandwich & Broccoli Cheddar Soup from Potbelly for dinner as my last food. I normally only get their salad but decided to actually eat bread, though I have avoided for a while now. I had a few oyster crackers for snack with Peanut Butter and was still under 900 calories and gained three pounds. Yeah...this is going to be a fun fourteen days. The way my silly metabolism works, I hope I don't gain weight within the next 14 days!

Does anyone have anything special planned for Memorial Day Weekend next week? Normally I have a huge BBQ here and we normally open up the pool at my house. Since only my parents, husband and son know, and I haven't told my siblings, this is going to be the first year I don't have a party. They all know I'm having hernia surgery and getting some scar tissue removed, but they don't know about the sleeve, so nobody will be too disappointed, but I still feel bad that I'm not having a party. Next year will be here in no time though.

Good luck to you all, it's getting closer. If anyone is nervous or excited or needs encouragement, please feel free to share.

Hello All!

My head aches have stopped and I found out today 6/19..... I lost 8.1 pounds since last Monday 6/11/2012!!!

surgery is going to be here so soon! I am so happy that I have not cheated and have really learned my hunger cues!

I can't wait for Monday to get here!!! :-)

I wish everyone the best and look forward to hearing from you soon!

The info for the facebook page is in my signature. But you can friend me @ www.facebook.com/robin.c.benson and I'll add you to the group.

Just sent you a request, thanks for setting it up!!

Mina~. It was your post! I couldn't remember where I read it. Although my tea is another brand, I made sure it was decaf. I did buy several other herbal celestial seasonings flavors. They do help with the cravings. I figured I may like the warmth and it can help me pass postop gas. Thanks for checking in on us. Our final week countdown has begun.

Haha!! Guess what? The peppermint Tea that I use every day is Bigelow Peppermint Decaff Tea!!!!! I told my son to pick me up the CS tea and he brought it to me and I said no that's not it, it's in a blue package lol. I laughed so darn hard because he brought it and said it's Bigelow lol. Ah, I really promoted the heck out of the wrong tea. Still, to this day it's my saving grace, it's the one thing that calms my tummy when it hurts.