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mychef    5

mychef
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Hello Everybody, I'm from Cambridge, MA. I start my pre-op on Sept 15, 2014, my sleeve done on Sept 15, 2014.

I'm looking for some buddies, for both pre-op & after I get the sleeve. I'm having mine done at Hallmark Health in Medford by

Dr Lane.

Have a great day & good luck to all, Mychef :)

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Darianna75    131

Darianna75
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Welcome and good luck ! Are u excited or nervous??

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mychef    5

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I'm a little of both excited & nervous. But I am looking forward to it.

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Jim1967    3,569

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Hi All, Hope you don't mind a NH person chiming in. I am currently living in Salem, NH but grew up and spent most of my life in Newburyport, MA. I had band surgery on 4/16/12 in Lowell MA.

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dylanmiles23    2,198

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Hello and good luck. I have the band and don't know much about the sleeve or by pass as to pre op and post op diets. I wish you a lot of luck. I had the band 2 years ago at the BI/Boston. I love my band. I live in Randolph and go to BI/Milton for all my follow-ups. My surgeon is now at both hospitals.

The WLS is the best thing I ever did for my health. I hope your surgery will be also.

Arlene

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leepee67    1

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Hi all. Lisa here from brockton. I'm preop. Doing ok but def hard for me to get the exercise in. I have chronic back pain after an injury at work. In fact just had my second back surgery in June. Anyone out there from my area?

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MaureenS    24

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Amazon. How are you doing? I had my surgery on 7/28 @ lahey in Burlington. I had Dr Brams. No problems

Feeling good now.

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amazon    579

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Amazon. How are you doing? I had my surgery on 7/28 @ lahey in Burlington. I had Dr Brams. No problems

Feeling good now.

@@MaureenS I'm going great! Thanks for asking :)

I have an appt. today with Heather (nut).

Not exactly losing much, but I know it will come. It's only two weeks tomorrow.

Dr. Brams is so nice. Have been very happy with his care, and the entire team. Glad you're doing well too!

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dylanmiles23    2,198

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Hi all. Lisa here from brockton. I'm preop. Doing ok but def hard for me to get the exercise in. I have chronic back pain after an injury at work. In fact just had my second back surgery in June. Anyone out there from my area?

Hello. I live in Randolph and have the band for 2 years. My doctor is at the BI/Boston and BI/Milton. Sorry to hear about your back but you can do exercises in a pool. I have a bad back and knees and did PT in a pool for a few years until the pool closed. Just got lazy and never went to another place.

When is your surgery and what type of WLS are you doing?

Good luck with everything.

Arlene

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Paula C.    6

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Hi all,

From North Reading. Had gastric bypass at Lahey Hospital in Burlington on Aug 6th. Doing great!

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amazon    579

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Hi all,

From North Reading. Had gastric bypass at Lahey Hospital in Burlington on Aug 6th. Doing great!

Hi Paula

Glad to see you're still doing well!!

Lisa

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bellabill    253

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Hi

I am from Holden(Central Ma) and I have no clue when I will have surgery but I hope to get some answers tomorrow from my appts. I started in July 7th for my intial appt. at Umass.

Leapyear you can fill me in on your journey. You just had the surgery recently and how are you doing? We are practically neighbors :)

Lisa

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leapyear    21

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Hi Lisa.

We are neighbors. Small world huh?!

I'm doing really good. So good I can't believe I had surgery a week ago. The only tuff thing is I do get hungry sometimes and I can only have liquids for another week. I'm definitely sick of drinking so much! But I've lost 12 lbs in a week. So that's great. My goal is to loose 100 total.

My journey started in Feb this year. My insurance required 6 month supervised program. I basically went once a month to UMass to see all the specialists. Plus I had a sleep study done which showed I have sleep apnea. Plus I attended 4 weekly group forums. Then I was able to meet surgeon; Dr. Czerniach. He is awesome!! I liked everyone I had in the program. They are so nice to you. You picked a great place to go.

If you have any more questions please feel free to ask. I'm happy to answer anything. Who are u seeing on Friday? Good luck to you!!!!

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bellabill    253

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Hi Lisa.

We are neighbors. Small world huh?!

I'm doing really good. So good I can't believe I had surgery a week ago. The only tuff thing is I do get hungry sometimes and I can only have liquids for another week. I'm definitely sick of drinking so much! But I've lost 12 lbs in a week. So that's great. My goal is to loose 100 total.

My journey started in Feb this year. My insurance required 6 month supervised program. I basically went once a month to UMass to see all the specialists. Plus I had a sleep study done which showed I have sleep apnea. Plus I attended 4 weekly group forums. Then I was able to meet surgeon; Dr. Czerniach. He is awesome!! I liked everyone I had in the program. They are so nice to you. You picked a great place to go.

If you have any more questions please feel free to ask. I'm happy to answer anything. Who are u seeing on Friday? Good luck to you!!!!

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    • Alisa_S

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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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    • Alisa_S

      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

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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.

        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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      Three months and four days ago... I was in Costa Rica having a life changing surgery! Yesterday we had a followup visit with Dr. Esmeral via video chat and this morning my middle number changed.  I'm down 47lbs and two pants sizes. I can wear a Large tshirt for the first time in like... 14 years! Woot!! Everything is going great. I have zero regrets. I went down to the riverwalk with a friend and walked 2 miles on Monday without even getting fatigued. And no more snoring or chugging pickle juice for crazy leg cramps! I need to go to the gym more... I'm making new shirts next week so that will motivate me. LOL But I'm also just not as TIRED all the time! I have a LONG way to go...but seeing the progress on the scales and in the mirror is a huge motivator!! Thank you all for cheering me on and supporting me!!
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