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Hi girls I say we all meet up for a coffee and chat....lemme know when you all are available and I will drive on across the border....I have a great little support group in Dubai and we certainly help each other out a lot!!!

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Also from the Detroit area, downriver, actually. Had my surgery on June 19th with Dr. Pleatman.

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I am open anytime for coffee just let me know when

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Also from the Detroit area' date=' downriver, actually. Had my surgery on June 19th with Dr. Pleatman.[/quote']

So did I how are you feeling?

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Is there anyone near Detroit would like to meet and hang out and build a friendship?

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Sorry it has taken so long for me to get back to your original post since we had surgery on the same day. I'm feeling good, most days. Still more tired than usual, but I'm sure that's due to the fact that I'm not eating as much and ingesting the calories that I was pre-surgery. My weight loss was good initially, I was down 19 pounds at my one week post op appointment, but I think I have only lost a few more since that time. It has slowed down drastically. I'm on regular food now, but not eating anywhere near 1000 calories. I really need to get myself on a better routine and start tracking my food & Water intake. My kids are off for the summer now, so it's hard to get in exercise time, but I'm trying. When they get back to school, I plan on working out as soon as I drop them off at school so I can get that done and over with in the beginning of the day. I don't see my doctor again until the beginning of August which will be more like 6 weeks out as opposed to 1 month out, but that it because I'm going up north for a week and then my son has hockey camp the following week, which will entail me running him to the rink monday through friday of that week, so I had to put it off a little later than the one month.

As for meeting and building a friendship, I'm all for it, even if we met for lunch or coffee or something once a month to catch up and see how each other are doing. Right now, I could meet in the evenings for coffee or something, but once school starts, my days will be free and I will have more time to meet for lunch or something else during the day. Let me know.

So, how are you doing???

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Sorry it has taken so long for me to get back to your original post since we had surgery on the same day. I'm feeling good' date=' most days. Still more tired than usual, but I'm sure that's due to the fact that I'm not eating as much and ingesting the calories that I was pre-surgery. My weight loss was good initially, I was down 19 pounds at my one week post op appointment, but I think I have only lost a few more since that time. It has slowed down drastically. I'm on regular food now, but not eating anywhere near 1000 calories. I really need to get myself on a better routine and start tracking my food & Water intake. My kids are off for the summer now, so it's hard to get in exercise time, but I'm trying. When they get back to school, I plan on working out as soon as I drop them off at school so I can get that done and over with in the beginning of the day. I don't see my doctor again until the beginning of August which will be more like 6 weeks out as opposed to 1 month out, but that it because I'm going up north for a week and then my son has hockey camp the following week, which will entail me running him to the rink monday through friday of that week, so I had to put it off a little later than the one month.

As for meeting and building a friendship, I'm all for it, even if we met for lunch or coffee or something once a month to catch up and see how each other are doing. Right now, I could meet in the evenings for coffee or something, but once school starts, my days will be free and I will have more time to meet for lunch or something else during the day. Let me know.

So, how are you doing???[/quote']

That sounds great! Wow we are in the same boat far as weight loss I am 20 lbs down I am also losing slowly now I try to eat 800 calories or fewer a day. I signed up along with my family at the YMCA Downtown last week I have been swimming and doing a little cardio for 15 minutes my energy is low due to low Iron. Meeting up sounds great when you get the chance there's no pressures hun I have 5 kids of my own so I know how that is.well keep in touch we can talk more about our weight loss and keep one another motivated keep up the good work.

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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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      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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