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Nope...not the only one. Just make sure you drink enough so you don't end up with kidney stones like me. If your did has you on a ketosis plan like mine, fluids are super important.

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I know, right? Even with my natural gray showing, people still tell me I look like I'm a young 40! Wait till I'm back to my fighting weight and I'm a hottie-tot! LOL!

Let's Celebrate together! Do you have anything special planned? I didn't intend to have a "coming out" event, so to speak, but a girlfriend just invited me to go on a cruise in January!

Every new stage seems so exciting... until you've been doing it for a week, LOL! Just kidding. As we speak, I'm trying to eat half an egg, scrambled. You have no idea how awful it feels. It's like I'm eating little rocks or something judging by the way my tummy feels. Who knew I could get full on a fork-full of eggs! :blink:

I'm going on a crusie in January, but plan on celebrating every accomplishment I can in 2013

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I find my pouch likes warm fluids better than room temp our cold how wierd is that?!

Same here!

Nope...not the only one. Just make sure you drink enough so you don't end up with kidney stones like me. If your did has you on a ketosis plan like mine, fluids are super important.

What is a ketosis plan? Can you explain it? I used to do Atkins (lost 80 pounds with it! :D Then got pregnant and gained it all back and then some. :(

Anyway, it was my understanding that any time you're burning fat for fuel you're automatically in ketosis. I've been peeing on my old ketostix during my stall to make me feel better...

I'm going on a crusie in January, but plan on celebrating every accomplishment I can in 2013

Yaaaay for the cruise! It will be my first one. Have you been on them before?

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I survived my first full day of work!!!! I did not die, though for a bit I thought I might :P. it's 8:30 and I'm in bed!!!

HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8

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I'm going on a crusie in January' date=' but plan on celebrating every accomplishment I can in 2013[/quote']

We should schedule a recovered fat girls cruise and go show off our new found hotness!!!

HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8

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How quickly did they have you up walking ? I had my surgery at 10 :30th but yet to walk?

I was out of surgery about 10:30 and walking around 6 ish? I was pretty much zonked til 4.

HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8

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How quickly did they have you up walking ? I had my surgery at 10 :30th but yet to walk?

And look at you posting in post-op!!! Woohoo!!!!

HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8

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Ok you know how we are NOT suppose to take Motrin with our new plumbing? Well due to my intense muscle/nerve pain with failed lidocaine injections (ouch) they are allowing me to take 200mg of Motrin every 6 hours for 48 hours!!! Is it working you ask? YESssssssssss

It always did before surgery and it still does......

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And look at you posting in post-op!!! Woohoo!!!!

HW 312' date=' pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8[/quote']

Same day as surgery!

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Ok you know how we are NOT suppose to take Motrin with our new plumbing? Well due to my intense muscle/nerve pain with failed lidocaine injections (ouch) they are allowing me to take 200mg of Motrin every 6 hours for 48 hours!!! Is it working you ask? YESssssssssss

It always did before surgery and it still does......

Yay!!!! Glad it's helping!!! How long are they gonna let ya take it??

HW 312, pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8

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We should schedule a recovered fat girls cruise and go show off our new found hotness!!!

HW 312' date=' pre-op (lap-band) 294, pre-op (RNY) 255, surgery date 2/11/13, goal weight 154, current weight 234.8[/quote']

Ya baby

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How quickly did they have you up walking ? I had my surgery at 10:30th but yet to walk?

They had me get in two walks on the day of surgery!

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Is anyone already noticing dry skin? Every time I look at my hands/arms I cringe. My skin looks papery and wrinkled like a person decades older! (Talking hands and arms -- not face... yet?)

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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
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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!

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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