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My surgery date is January 8, 2014! It's been a long process of 11 months of trying to get approved. Anybody else having the surgery in January? I am terrified of the two weeks of a liquid diet before surgery. I can't get my mind around not eating anything but liquids after surgery too for awhile. If I do that now, I get very sick!

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Hi,

Meeting with Doctor this wensday to set my date I am shooting for the 2nd or third week of Jan,

I wanna start the year of with a new start.

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My surgery will take place the last week in January. I'm really struggling with trying not to gain weight between now and then with the holidays approaching it's going to be tough. My mind is starting to think "food funerals" already.

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Yeah its especially going to be hard around christmas time. I think I might be a hermit and hide in my house!

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Mine is January 21 woohoo. I did liquid diet before with a lapband, just first 4 days are hatd

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Did the lap band not work? I know another person who got the band removed and did sleeve.

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My surgery date is January 8' date=' 2014! It's been a long process of 11 months of trying to get approved. Anybody else having the surgery in January? I am terrified of the two weeks of a liquid diet before surgery. I can't get my mind around not eating anything but liquids after surgery too for awhile. If I do that now, I get very sick![/quote']

I am also having surgery in January. I am having the rue n y not the sleeve.

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Band sucks

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Mine should be toward the middle or end of January. I am scare about the pre op diet, and I've been having the "food funerals" eating everything in site twice...at the beginning it seemed so far away but January is just around the corner and hopefully we will all be ready for the summer with a couple of pounds less. Good Luck to all.

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Yeah I went to outback and had their cheese fries one last time. I'm just working out everyday so I don't gain weight.

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The lap band most definitely did NOT work for me. I lost 20 lbs over 2 years and it was because my food got caught in my esophagus because the band was incorrectly placed.

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Yeah I went to outback and had their cheese fries one last time. I'm just working out everyday so I don't gain weight.
omg outback cheese fries with their ranch dressing. I'm literally salivating right now. My surgery is tomorrow and I've been on liquids since Thursday. I wish I would've thought to go to Outback last week!

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Ps, my band worked great for 3+ years and then it slipped and I gained 80 of my 124 lbs back. I know a lot of people that have had the band but only a couple that haven't had an issue.... Yet. It should be taken off the market

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Ps' date=' my band worked great for 3+ years and then it slipped and I gained 80 of my 124 lbs back. I know a lot of people that have had the band but only a couple that haven't had an issue.... Yet. It should be taken off the market[/quote']

Hi Nicole

I am booked on the 16th January. I am having my band out next Friday, I lost 35kgs (70+)lbs but had issues after my second baby.

Nervous ill gain in the 8 week gap between surgeries.

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I finally got my date of January 8th for surgery. I cant wait and am looking forward to it. Does anyone know if there is a January 2014 group? I would make a group but I wouldnt be able to keep tabs on it... :huh:

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      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.

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