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Surgery is tomorrow! Wow! Time has flown and now it is time. Not really nervous anymore, more excited. I am ready to get this show on the road! :)

Congrats Betsy come on over to the losers bench!

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Wow, congratulations! I will be praying for you. Keep us posted:-)

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Surgery is tomorrow! Wow! Time has flown and now it is time. Not really nervous anymore, more excited. I am ready to get this show on the road! :)

Thoughts and prayers are with you...you are going to wake up a BRAND NEW YOU!!!

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Surgery is tomorrow! Wow! Time has flown and now it is time. Not really nervous anymore, more excited. I am ready to get this show on the road! :)

Good luck!

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We have all tried to lose weight time and time again! If we could have done it without surgery we would have! After every diet I have regained the weight I lost plus some more! This is a last resort and a decision not made lightly. Insurance companies should realize that. I was fortunate in the sense that I only needed approval for my travel costs. Unfortunate that I did not get the classes except for 1 nutrition class. My support is mainly coming from these forums. Thank you all for your posts and encouragement!!

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Lamb, good luck on your surgery tomorrow! I am 2 days after you. I am getting less nervous and more excited.

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Sorry, make that Betsy. Good luck on your surgery tomorrow. Update us when you can.

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Thanks everyone! Packing my bag. Going to leave VERY early cause the weather sucks here!! Have a three hour drive to the surgery center and it is supposed to be below zero plus we got a ton on snow today! Bad timing!

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Hi I'm scheduled for Jan 14 a little nervous but I think I am ready for a change. This process started over 8 months ago but finally here. Good luck to all the January surgery patients.

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Good luck tomorrow, Betsy! I'm on Wednesday. For those of you just starting or about to start the liquid diet, it DOES get easier after the first 2 days! It as hard to smell my husband cooking bacon and eggs this morning and we went to a birthday party yesterday but I was able to stick to my diet. Woo hoo! Getting excited for Wednesday!

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My surgery is Jan. 16 too.....good to have a surgery buddy...I don't start pre op until the 9th but I'm back to juicing until then...

I'm also on the 16th!

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Good luck tomorrow, Betsy! I'm on Wednesday. For those of you just starting or about to start the liquid diet, it DOES get easier after the first 2 days! It as hard to smell my husband cooking bacon and eggs this morning and we went to a birthday party yesterday but I was able to stick to my diet. Woo hoo! Getting excited for Wednesday!

Thank you Eroper6! Good luck to you on Wednesday too!

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Good luck Betsy!

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I'm also on the 16th!

WOOP!!! WOOP!! When does your pre op start?

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Thank you Eroper6! Good luck to you on Wednesday too!

Good luck to ya.....

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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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      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.

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