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I've just finished day 9 of my pre op diet not much longer now last blood test done today. Is any one else having it done on the 20th may???

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Hi every one im Liz and i live in the North East of England, im a ex bander bow Bypass and i have my own support group in Sunderland. Any one in the area give me a shout and i will give you my meeting details x

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Hi guys just found this forum. I'm from north London, hopefully having bypass in Aug as long as all goes well with funding. Full of nerves & excitement &just wanted to say ola :-)

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Hi guys just found this forum. I'm from north London' date=' hopefully having bypass in Aug as long as all goes well with funding. Full of nerves & excitement &just wanted to say ola :-)[/quote']

Hi Wannabeyummi. Welcome to the forum, there doesn't seem to many of us from England on here. But everyone is friendly and the advice and expertise you pick up is priceless. They do things differently in the USA as far as I can tell, I don't have to drink Protein shakes or anything like that. But then again, even in England all doctors are different and each persons diet is different, even pre-op diets!

I had my surgery on 28th May and was allowed home three days after. Am doing ok, getting into it slowly, like my afternoon naps at the moment! Including pre-op diet have lost about a stone and half in a month and beginning to notice a difference.

Good luck with your surgery, let us know when it is. Any questions just ask, there are lots of people on here that are further down the line than me.

Good luck

Bx

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Hi Wannabeyummi. Welcome to the forum' date=' there doesn't seem to many of us from England on here. But everyone is friendly and the advice and expertise you pick up is priceless. They do things differently in the USA as far as I can tell, I don't have to drink Protein shakes or anything like that. But then again, even in England all doctors are different and each persons diet is different, even pre-op diets!

I had my surgery on 28th May and was allowed home three days after. Am doing ok, getting into it slowly, like my afternoon naps at the moment! Including pre-op diet have lost about a stone and half in a month and beginning to notice a difference.

Good luck with your surgery, let us know when it is. Any questions just ask, there are lots of people on here that are further down the line than me.

Good luck

Bx[/quote']

Hi Bev thank for reply I'm hoping my surgery is going to happen on the 20th of aug . Do u mind if I send u a private msg? X

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Hi Bev thank for reply I'm hoping my surgery is going to happen on the 20th of aug . Do u mind if I send u a private msg? X

No, that's fine. You can send me a private message xx

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Hi everyone from England I wish I could find a buddy who lives near me in Somerset, good luck everyone on there new journey x

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Hi everyone, my name is deb I'm 43 married with 2 kids and 2 granddaughters I live in Cheshire I'm 6 weeks post op, I had wls 10 years ago and lost 10 stones, havin putting my weight back I went back to my gp they agreed to do a revision from a vertical banded gastroplasty to a gastric bypass, there were a few complications but I think I'm finally on the better side, still in abit of pain but its alot better then it was, I've lost 20kgs but 8 of them were on my pre op diet, I've not lost any for 2 weeks and feel really disheartened I've not lost more, feels like I'm still in pain got nothing :-(

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Hi everyone, my name is deb I'm 43 married with 2 kids and 2 granddaughters I live in Cheshire I'm 6 weeks post op, I had wls 10 years ago and lost 10 stones, havin putting my weight back I went back to my gp they agreed to do a revision from a vertical banded gastroplasty to a gastric bypass, there were a few complications but I think I'm finally on the better side, still in abit of pain but its alot better then it was, I've lost 20kgs but 8 of them were on my pre op diet, I've not lost any for 2 weeks and feel really disheartened I've not lost more, feels like I'm still in pain got nothing :-(

Hi deb, you had your WLS?

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Hi , i'm having my op on monday hopefully , i'm on my pre op diet of weight watcher Soups x4 muller light yogurts x4 and 1 pt semi skimmed milk.

Im glad i found this site as i don't really have a support network behind me as it's just me and my daughter now so i really need some one who has been there done that and got the tshirt to prove it and who can point me in the right direction as there doesn't seem to be a gastric bypass group in my area

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Coming up to 1 year post op Scotland uk band to rny conversation

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I'm 11 days post op and I'm in Colchester, Essex.

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Hello from Birmingham - originally from London. Had my op at St Mary's in Paddington (gastric bypass) Feb 2013. What op did you have and how you finding it so far?

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Have lost 84 pounds since band to bypass conversion total weight loss 184lb I am below my surgeons goal of BMI of 30 aiming for my goal of BMI of 27 got 6lb to go as this will allow me to be referred to plastics how are you all doing : )

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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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      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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