...are sitting in front of me. I'm on my 2 week liquid diet and am STARVING! Sigh, I don't know how you guys do it. Though I am staying strong...

-Jason

Jason Jason Jason, I feel your pain, had my surgery 5 days ago and feel like I could starve to death. Other then being hungry I feel like I have lost one of my best friends, food.I couldn't get moving in the morning without a diet coke, now its tea and coffee,uck. But I have to remember how everytime I walked by the mirror I didn't know who that fat person was looking back and I just couldn't try another diet just to lose 70 lbs then put it back plus. So I am trying to remember food wasn't my friend but my enemy. Get rid of any food in your house,all of it!!!!!!!!!!!For once I feel like I am going to control food instead of it controling me! You can do it!!!

This was by far the most horrible, depressing experience of my life. I think the hardest part is, that it's a reality check, for me I really realized just how much my life revolved around what I ate. Especially in those types of situations, where all this stuff is in front of you. I had to keep reminding myself, "If I wasn't such an out of controll fat*ss I wouldn't be going through this in the first place, 10 days or torture for me is not all that bad considering what I've been doing to myself for years with all the fats and sweets" I have a friend who was supposed be be banded 2 days before me, but they found a tumor (it's ok it's benign) now she has to do the liquid diet AGAIN.

Jason you just said what most of us are feeling, I keep reminding myself took 50 years to get here and I am having a horrible time thinking of what I am giving up, food has been my everything,everything I did had food involved. I am going through a divorce and one of the things my ex would call me was a stupid fatass and I would get mad but everytime I looked in the mirror I would see that fatass, food has controled my life for to long its my turn to get it back!!! Glad to hear your friends tumor was benign that is very stressful, hang in there we will all get there and look great when we do.