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Gaffer

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absteph    0

absteph
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I've finished one week on Optifast and I really miss food. I haven't cheated though. I add coconut, banana, or orange artificial extract to my shakes. Mixed with ice in the bullet helps and the artificial extrac helps with the initial taste. I can taste optifast even when I haven't had one for hours so I'll try chewing gum.

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CLOE    0

CLOE
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Your doing great!!!!!!!!!!

Remember......JUST TEMPORARY.......I had to repeat that often throughout my Optifast days.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!

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Gaffer    1

Gaffer
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Your doing great!!!!!!!!!!

Remember......JUST TEMPORARY.......I had to repeat that often throughout my Optifast days.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!

You are so right. That is alot of what is keeping me going right now. Eventually I will be able to have what I crave, in moderation, once I am banded, healed & back on solid foods.

With that said, I dont even know if I will want to go back to any of those foods. I feel really good right now, I sleep better, I dont ache as much, and I generally feel ina better mood.

Maybe we can adapt the saying "Pain is temporary, pride is forever" to "Hunger is tempory, pride is forever"

Andrew

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Astrotoes    0

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Yea Gaffer,your doing awesome and your attitude sounds really positive...excellent.I'm going to Toronto 2 days before the surgery,and I'm hoping they'll blend my Optifast at the hotel restaurant, I do not want to lug my big blender up there. After the surgery I think I'll live on popsicles and Water until I come home.

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Irishmist    0

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Gaffer, you are sure doing great, 17 lbs. already, you are going to have a good weight loss by the time Feb.14 comes around.:clap2: :clap2:

Maria :rose:

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Gaffer    1

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Yea Gaffer,your doing awesome and your attitude sounds really positive...excellent.I'm going to Toronto 2 days before the surgery,and I'm hoping they'll blend my Optifast at the hotel restaurant, I do not want to lug my big blender up there. After the surgery I think I'll live on popsicles and Water until I come home.

I am set to arrive a couple of days before the surgery as well. I have had pretty good luck at work just shaking the Optifast in a sport bottle with some ice, so I think that is what I will do.

I dont what my luggage taken away after they x ray it and think my blender is a bomb at the airport.

What hotel are you staying at?

A

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Astrotoes    0

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I'm at Novotel,I believe it's on a street called Hurontario,and clse to a mall called Square One...Which one are you staying at?

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JLB    0

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Wow, you guys are doing great!!!

:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

You're great inspiration for us wannabe's.

:confused:

Janice

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Gaffer    1

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I'm at Novotel,I believe it's on a street called Hurontario,and clse to a mall called Square One...Which one are you staying at?

That is where we are staying as well. We booked online & they had some romance get away deal. I am afraid this will not be the most romantic valentines for my wife.

A

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Gaffer    1

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Andrew....r u guys taking your baby along too?

What baby?

Just kidding. He is staying with his grandparents in Lethbridge. He has a full schedule of lunch dates, play dates, and grandma time. We will really miss him but are hoping to keep occupied with other stuff.

Does anyone know how long it would take to get to Niagra? I really want to go to the butterfly conservatory there. Is there a bus or somthing to get there?

A

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Yoda    0

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Andrew.....Mr Yoda's dad lives in Niagara Falls.....from where you will be staying it is only an hour drive.

Re. the butterfly conservatory....I believe there is also another one right close to where you are staying (ie. 10 - 15 min drive).....I always see a sign for it...(Hwy # 7 and 427 intersection)....can any of you TO folks help out on this one? I dunno anymore details than that.

Sounds like the lil' tyke will be very social while you are gone!! It is the parents that will miss him; not the other way around!!!

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dxeln    0

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Hi, I haven't had the banding yet, just lurking and reading all that I can. Do you all have to go on a liquid diet before the surgery? I go to a seminar on 3-8-07, I don't know a whole lot about it yet. Just wondering. Sounds like everyone is doing good. I can't believe the before/after pictures. Everyone looks great.

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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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        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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