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Feb 18th..starting preop diet tomorrow!



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Well it's official. My sleeve date is Feb 18th at Baylor Trophy Club in Fort Worth,TX. I am beginning my liquid diet tomorrow and praying for strength and discipline during the next two weeks. I know once i'm on the looser side hunger won't be such an issue. Giving up soda's, cigs and food .. just hoping i don't hurt nobody!!! B)

Thanks for all of your support I am so excited to see the change-mentally and physically!

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Congrats and good luck. Just stay focused on the end result to get thru the rough times and remember, it gets easier and better everyday!

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Surgery is the 18th too. I started my diet today but I get 2 Protein Drinks and a small meal a day. It was tough but managed hunger with Water. Looking forward to the light dinner. I think bc I am drinking alot of water that I'm extra thirsty. It's like my body is craving the water now. Just have to go pee alot. Hopefully it won't be long before my bladder can take the extra water.

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@Susie where u hvng surgery

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I'm having my surgery Feb, 18th also. I started the diet yesterday, and I forgot how hard it is to diet!! I keep telling myself I want and I could do this! Nothing tastes as good as skinny must feel. I'm in Hazleton PA. A long way apart but we will be in the same boat!! I wish u all the best.

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I'm having my surgery Feb' date=' 18th also. I started the diet yesterday, and I forgot how hard it is to diet!! I keep telling myself I want and I could do this! Nothing tastes as good as skinny must feel. I'm in Hazleton PA. A long way apart but we will be in the same boat!! I wish u all the best.[/quote']

Good luck!!! Yesterday was tough but today I felt kinda light headed and nauseous. So tomorrow I think is gonna be the worst day. Hope it gets easier for you.

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I'm thinking day five! I'm giving myself until that day then I'm going to be over the hunger and headache issues!! I hope ????. I hope it goes that way for u too!!

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I met you today in dr Smiths office. Did they do your swallow test before you left?

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Surgery is the 18th too. I started my diet today but I get 2 Protein drinks and a small meal a day. It was tough but managed hunger with Water. Looking forward to the light dinner. I think bc I am drinking alot of Water that I'm extra thirsty. It's like my body is craving the water now. Just have to go pee alot. Hopefully it won't be long before my bladder can take the extra water.

That's so exciting!!

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OMG I give props to all the veterans on this site.... I am day 3 preop diet and there is nothing easy about this whole process. I haven't even had surgery yet and I'm overwhelmed. I had to give up soda food and cigarettes all in one day.. I am doing better than I thought I would but surprisingly the hardest thing hasn't been the sodas or the food...it's the cigarettes. I can't figure out what to do in the car, house or the club... too much free time with my hands now. Tried the vaper e-cig and I didn't like it at all. Went today for my edg (endoclostomy) and they found a small hernia and several ulcers. I wasn't surprised by the hernia bcz I been having reflux but the ulcers did catch me off guard. Tomorrow is the last of all the preop test I have to do the blood work and then nothing left but surgery! Excited and actually surprising myself at how I've been able to stick with the liquid diet so far. I really want to prove to myself that I can do this. I already experience the awkwardness that I have read about on here when others are eating and you can't. I guess it's even harder for me because I don't have to eat but i'm used to smoking and now I have no vise. I already feel like a different person..

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The no smoking part was the hardest for me, I am 9days post op today and I still think about a cig every now and then. But it is getting better every day! Keep up the great work, I am sure you will make it!!

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The no smoking part was the hardest for me' date=' I am 9days post op today and I still think about a cig every now and then. But it is getting better every day! Keep up the great work, I am sure you will make it!![/quote']

I someday could punch a bleep for one more cigarette....but one more isn't ever just one more!

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The no smoking part was the hardest for me' date=' I am 9days post op today and I still think about a cig every now and then. But it is getting better every day! Keep up the great work, I am sure you will make it!![/quote']

Do u plan on starting again?

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