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Ok - I have a bizarre question. If you have surgery in the summer - is it hard to be out in the sun and stay hydrated? I am thinking about pool days with my kids and am getting ready to start the 6 month pre-diet - so that would put me close to June - just in time for summer!

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I had my surgery in May. Didn't find it hard to stay hydrated at all this summer. Just kept sipping in between meals. After a couple of months, the ability to drink normally returned. Have to time it so that I give it at least 30 min after a meal before drinking. There really isn't enough room.

Don't want to frighten you off here, and maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't be caught dead anywhere near a pool. Or a bathing suit. Rapid weight loss does weird things to the skin. Like my inner thighs. I've lost and gained many times in my life, but I have never lost in my inner thighs before. Right now they look like melting candle wax. Hoping that exercise will help firm them, but there might be a body lift in my future.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't take the 56 lbs I've lost to have less sagging skin though. I'll deal with it. But right now Bermuda shorts are the way to go.

Good luck on your journey. It's going to be amazing!

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Hi I was sleeved june 18 the only problem I had was waiting till July to go in my pool. I agree with cindymg the legs are not nice but I have my own pool. I wont be a swimsuit model any time soon. You will be ok, good luck to you.

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I had surgery June 11th. I didn't have any issues staying hydrated at all. I constantly carried Water or crystal lite everywhere I went. I didn't have any problems after surgery drinking, even fast, large amounts. I could drink the same way that I did pre surgery. Some people are not like that tho, so it all depends on your body. The only issues I had was finding sugar free drinks on the go. I just made sure I always had sugar free drink mixes with me, and made my own, or just had water. And I couldn't swim for the first 6-8 weeks after surgery. So that was hard for me to stay out of the water for my kids.

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August surgery, no issues. Everyone is different but I was at pre op drinking rates by 2 weeks post op

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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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    • 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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      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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