My surgery date is next week so excited and overwhelmed

Very nervous any advice to calm Me down

I understand how you feel. My surgery is on Thursday!!! I cannot beleive it!!! Just focus on why you are doing this, and the benefits of getting this weight off! I keep telling people my new life starts Thursday!!!

It will go by so fast! You'll blink and it will be here =p

I found it helpful to keep busy. When I wasn't busy with work I was either posting on here or keeping myself doing projects around home. Cleaned the entire house. Did all the laundry. Got in some light exercise, caught up on some tv shows. Anything I could do to keep my mind off the surgery. By the time it was the night before surgery I was so beat from everything and just having clear liquids that I about passed out and it was surgery day before I knew it.

My first piece of advice is to stay away from any "horror stories." Only look at success stories. I was sleeved on May 21st. It has changed my life in so many ways in such a short time. I am off all blood pressure and acid reflux medicine. I am only 2 lbs. away from a 50 lb weight loss. Post op recovery was easier than I thought. The more you walk, the better you will feel.

Here is a quick fact I learned before I went in for surgery (and I was very nervous like you). Weight loss surgeries are so common now, that they are considered safer than having your appendix removed. Also, I was freaked out that I was going to die. My therapist said, at the weight you are at you are going to die, so getting this surgery isn't that big of a risk is it???? Wow! Good point. Focus on the good, pray a lot, and trust your body to heal and transform. Good luck!!!

I know how you feel. My surgery is on August 7th and I have been very nervous too. I haven't slept much all week, but yes, reading success stories helps and thinking about where you want to be will get you through this first step.

Don't worry! We will do great!

Thanks guys for advise truely need it