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Thank you Firelle! I'm so excited!!! This is like a dream. Good luck to all of you too. Xoxoxo. I will be posting from my hospital bed.

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Thank you Firelle! I'm so excited!!! This is like a dream. Good luck to all of you too. Xoxoxo. I will be posting from my hospital bed.

Wishing you the best!! Let us know how it goes!

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Best of luck to those of you having your surgeries tomorrow!!

Thanks firelle! I can't believe it's almost here! I am trying so hard to keep busy, busy and not think too much. Otherwise I will panic and freak myself out. I know I want AND NEED this so badly.

himalaya62, 4my2boys and everyone else tomorrow and the rest of February GOOD LUCK AND CALM VIBES to you all! ^_^ Happy dance all around!

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I hear a lot of you are required to do Clear Liquids a day or two before surgery. My dr hasn't said anything about that to me. I'm assuming that I just do the normal Protein Shake up until the night before? I'll check with my dr, but what requirements do any of you have the day or two before "the BIG day"?

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I hear a lot of you are required to do clear liquids a day or two before surgery. My dr hasn't said anything about that to me. I'm assuming that I just do the normal Protein Shake up until the night before? I'll check with my dr' date=' but what requirements do any of you have the day or two before "the BIG day"?[/quote']

I was shakes and clear liquids only two weeks pre op. surgery went perfectly this past wed 1/30. Home doing really well. Good luck! It is so exciting!

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Preop starts Feb 14th surgery Feb 28th

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16 more days until surgery. Im a little nervous but not much. The preop diet starts tuesday and i know that is going top suck because I cook for my family.

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I have my pre-op feb 19th and scheduled for surgery Feb 21st!!! I'm super excited! I am on a 2 shake and one small meal diet.

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I hear a lot of you are required to do clear liquids a day or two before surgery. My dr hasn't said anything about that to me. I'm assuming that I just do the normal Protein Shake up until the night before? I'll check with my dr' date=' but what requirements do any of you have the day or two before "the BIG day"?[/quote']

Day before I do my normal liquid diet for breakfast/lunch. Then I have to do bowel cleansing around 2p and then its ONLY clear liquids after that up to 4 hrs before surgery.

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My sleeve is scheduled for February 25th. Getting excited. My son was sleeved Dec 17th and down 90 lbs already with 30 of that lost prior to surgery :) Big changes at our house. Have lost some on Weight Watchers but tired if struggling all the time. Am a nurse in Missouri and ready for the changes. Good luck to all!!

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Thank you thank you! Believe it or not I am as cool as a cucumber right now. I think I have past over to the stage of acceptance. I'm just ready to get the show on the road!! Woohoo! We are all so awesome!!!!!!!!

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Surgery date Feb 14th! Day four of two week pre-op diet! Started off rocky but controlling hunger with Water and fruit as directed by my Nut. Diet is 1000 calorie low fat and carb.

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Surgery date Feb 14th! Day four of two week pre-op diet! Started off rocky but controlling hunger with Water and fruit as directed by my Nut. Diet is 1000 calorie low fat and carb.

I'm same as you...day 4 but I am on liquids only..I am ready for V day (:

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Hey guys!! Congrats to all you fellow February Sleevers! I am the moderator of the February 2013 Social Group so if you want an invite just let me know and I will send you one!!

Would like an invite. Scheduled for February 25th :)

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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