Hello,

I just joined this forum. I will be having my gastric sleeve surgery on 10/25. My journey started in May with my first consultation with my Dr. I origianally went into the meeting thinking I wanted the Band, and came out convinced the sleeve is the way to go.

I have had some mile stones along the way already:

10/1 - Quit smoking - I am a 35 year smoker, I really thought this was going to be harder than it is. I reallly don't miss the cigarettes, I am still fixing the oral fixation, but so far so good.

I have started my liquid diet on 10/11 - this has been really tough, but I will power through it.

I am anxiously awaiting 10/25 to roll around to start the rest of my life.

Wish me luck, if you anyone has any tips to get through the pre-op diet, I would love to hear them.

Congrats on the quitting of smoking that is awesome! and congrats on ur surgery date! it will be here before you know i!!

Good luck! If you are strong enough to quit smoking after all that time, then you are strong enough to tough out the liquid diet. The only advice I can give you is check out Special K Protein Packets. You can dump 1 into a bottle of water and its 5g of protein. The Pink Lemondade is the best with a lil packet of Stevia to go with it!

Good luck! WTG on the quitting smoking. You'll be just fine.