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By GENNYOSKINNY, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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Souledout    31

Souledout
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Santa Barbara. Sleeved July 11th

Hey there snow...in SB too. Do you know of any support groups here?

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AngelaBreeden    7

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I live in Petaluma' date=' any support groups close by me?

Had surgery a week ago:)[/quote']

I live in Santa Rosa and we have a support group here at the Wells Fargo Center every 2nd Saturday of the month @ 10am. It's worth the 15 minute drive. I love it! its a huge meeting and we have a huge clothes swap there also.

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JP69    116

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Thanks so much, will definitely be coming!

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sarahzamudio1091    185

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Anaheim Ca getting sleeved at fountain Valley <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Dec 15 !! So nervous and exciteddddd!

That's where I got sleeved too !!

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sarahzamudio1091    185

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Is this Dr LePort's office? I had my surgery with Dr Kelly Francis.......

Good surgeons , I had dr. Iqubil from le ports office

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luciengoff    0

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I'm Kim and I live in Palm Desert. Surgery 5/9/2012 with Dr Awad in Palm Springs. Age 56. Feeling like a new woman!!

I was sleeved by Dr. Awad on 12/19/2012 and I feel like a new person already too. He's great. I actually found him on a documentary I watched and I am so glad I did!

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katie kaboom    10

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Fullerton California here. Also got sleeved in Fountain Valley.. My doc was Dr. Ali from LePorts office. Have my two week follow you with him 1/31. Can't wait!

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jenakaela    24

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Congrats Katie and welcome.

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kiki1196    101

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Monterey ca here dr Vierra

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jenakaela    24

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Hi Kiki...I have a cousin in Texas name Kiki. Anyways I'm Lota and I live in Soledad. I'm pre-op waiting to get a surgery date. Where are you in your journey?

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kiki1196    101

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Hi Jena

We have friends in Soledad. I'm waiting for my date as well. Just went to the pre-op class yesterday at CHOMP. Couldn't stay for the support group but wish I could've. They have another group for sleeves one Thursday a month in the evenings I will try to make. Where are you doing your surgery?

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jenakaela    24

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I'm close to the end...I have my psych eval on 2/5/13 and from there they'll call to schedule surgery(only if I lose 26lbs my Dr wants me to lose. I lost 13lbs already) and go for EKG. I'm doing it with Fremont Kaiser. I stop weighing myself because it was stressing me out. So I'm waiting anxiously for the scale on the 5th lol. SW 316 HW 322 CW 303 GW 170-180. I'm 5'9 large frame Samoan female.

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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

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        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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