Hi everyone!! This is my first post & I'm looking for October surgery buddies. I'm very excited about the surgery. I've gotten my psych clearance, scheduled my sleep study, nutrition classes and upper endoscopy. My date is October 14th. Btw, anyone here from Jersey? Look forward to making friends w everyone!

Edited August 21, 201411 yr by Marielbx

@@aSleeveStory

Good luck Friday! Are you on a pre-op diet right now? What can you have. I go Oct 14th.

I start my pre-op on the 15th and wondering if I should start with using the nutribullet in the beginning just to ease into everything. Anyone do this...did it work?

@@BigMAlways

How was your surgery? Are you doing well? Would love to hear about it.

@@aSleeveStoryGood luck Friday! Are you on a pre-op diet right now? What can you have. I go Oct 14th.

Yes... I started pre-op liquids on the 27th of September, after ten days of a very restrictive no sugar, low carb, high Protein "normal" diet before that. I've lost about 40lbs total since the start of all that.

I can have one Protein shake for Breakfast, one for lunch, and dinner with 4oz of either chicken, fish, or turkey It's been chicken all nights but one, where I did salmon. I also have a decent helping of veggies with each dinner... mostly steamed broccoli and carrots. We've done snap peas once or twice, and steamed green Beans also. I'm told I can have a third shake each day if I really need or want one, but they also said to avoid it if I can... so far I've not had a third ANY of the days, and I feel alright.

It hasn't been that awful for me. I work late nights (3-4am) and usually wake up around Noon. When I'm first awake, I'm not that hungry. Past two days I've done a bottle of Isopure for breakfast instead of a shake... it's 100 calories less and fills me up just fine. Lunch I do a Lean Body shake pre-mixed in the box. Sometimes I make a shake with MRM Protein powder since we still have a big jug of it. It has less calories than the pre-made Lean Body, but does have some sugar... where Lead Body has NO sugar... so it's a weird trade-off. I figure since insulin resistance and sugar are my issues, I'm better off with the Lean Body ones (Isopure also has zero sugar).

The only time I get REALLY hungry is at the very end of my day. If it starts to bother me, I'll just go to bed... and start the next day!

Once or twice I've also had an after-dinner snack of 1 cup or so of the same veggies from dinner. I figure it can't hurt.

I've lost, on average, 1.8 lbs daily during the liquid portion. Down 2.2 from yesterday's weigh.

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How did you choose it? I checked a bmi chart and figured what I needed to weigh to be in the normal category

That's pretty much what I did too... male 6' 4" they say between 189 and 199... that's essentially my goal. I'll probably cry the first time I get under 300 lbs, and who knows the reaction when I'm under 200!

I cannot honestly remember the last time I weighed anywhere near that. 2004 maybe?

October 28th is my surgery date. Start the pre op diet on 10/14. Excited, scared, anxious but overall looking forward to both the journey and results.

@Sleeveme61@robga999@Peekboo thinking of you all and sending positive thoughts & prayers on your surgeries tomorrow &Tuesday. Also thinking of the rest of you who are having your sugery this week. I'm not that tech savvy so didn't know how to add everyone.

YOU GUYS WILL DO GREAT things! Rock that sleeve!!!

@@spelmanite10

Is it a bearable pain? Congrats on getting sleeved! I go October 14th.

They pump you with c0 gas so all of it doesn't go away right away so it can be painful.

Shmeyers

I get a bit confused at how these post come through but I think u were talking to me about the goal weight being the same as well as the height. :-) My surgeon came up with it although it make on the boarder of being overweight on the medical charts! If I make it to 140, I will try to get to 135.

Kathy

Thank you so much!

@@aSleeveStory

Wow! You are doing awesome. Good luck with everything. I have been on my pre-op diet since last Tuesday. I am allowed 2 shakes or a Quest bar and a dinner of meat and vegetables. I'm allowed sf pudding, Jello and popcicles. I can also have a piece of fruit if I feel weak. I have been eating an apple everyday. It helps a lot, but I'm thinking I should try and do without it since it has carbs and sugar. Since Tuesday, I have lost 7lbs. I didn't have to do any diet before this.

@@Peekboo

Yes, I was talking to you.

After a trip to emergency room I am back at it people turns out I got a infection due to the iv that rupture in my arm while in hospital I also had a uti and slight pneumonia

@@spelmanite10

Yuck! I sure hope you feel better soon. Will pray for you.

Okay you awesome sleevers ! Here's a list of everyone who posted their surgery date and their location. Lots of people on the same days ! If any of the data is a mistake, let me know. We can also tag those we haven't heard from on the 1st or 2nd and see how they are doing.

I know a lot of us are nervous, excited, and scared.. and also happy for spelmanite10 for the surgery on the 1st ! We are all in this together ! We have a good group of people here.

10/1 - spelmanite10

10/1 - EndlezzPozzibilities - North Carolina

10/1 - joyful0402

10/1 - Pennyface

10/1 - trisey

10/1 - genniexfresh

10/1 - JenW~79 - Texas

10/1 - Lin1738

10/1 - kmuecke

10/1 - tardis76 - Massachusets

10/1 - Me on the list - Texas

10/2 - jmsgal - Chicago

10/2 - kccat3594 - New York

10/3 - jazzymom17 - Virginia

10/3 - unkowns

10/3 - BigMAlways - Massachusetts

10/4 - nikkydizzle - lives in Africa / surgery in England

10/6 - lisam495 -

10/6 - ljbobcat - Tiawana

10/6 - kelew39 - Louisiana

10/6 - Tee's new life - New York

10/6 - Queenz_Cece

10/6 - orrio82 - New York

10/6 - Sleeveme61 - California

10/6 - It_only_gets_better - California

10/6 - itsjessica - California

10/6 - robga999

10/6 - FilthAngel86

10/7 - AmyinNC - North Carolina

10/7 - Dana875 - North Carolina

10/7 - Biz

10/8 - Peekboo - Virginia

10/8 - leenieceymic1

10/8 - mwill68 - New Jersey

10/8 - larissanicole - New York

10/8 - Sistersuz - Florida

10/8 - Kcameron1 - Australia

10/8 - pbake01 - Ohio

10/8 - Pulelehua - Oklahoma

10/9 - marcasla - Washington

10/9 - stephaniegencs

10/9 - Disneymomx2

10/10 - 4EverChang'nSpy - Texas

10/10 - naan

10/10 - mnmlst

10/10 - akflatt1986 - Kentucky

10/12 - kim74951 - Oklahoma

10/13 - Livelaughlove2014 - Tijuana

10/13 - babybearsmum - Texas (from OK)

10/13 - friejenn - Idaho

10/13 - BP'sMamaG - South Carolina

10/14 - Marielbx

10/14 - lovelytrl - Louisiana

10/14 - chellede - Texas

10/14 - shmeyers - Indiana

10/14 - Angie413

10/14 - fosho1976 - Ohio

10/14 - jab315 - New York

10/14 - Kpar909956 - Tennessee

10/15 - shrinkingjill - Pennsylvania

10/15 - catinthehat

10/15 - apeters9284 - Texas

10/15 - groomergirl - Texas

10/15 - Samiuah Octavia Garnes

10/15 - OnePhatWhoDat - Tennesse

10/16 - ToMissKA - Australia

10/16 - athomas125 - South Carolina

10/17 - Kathy812 - Illinois

10/17 - sportymommy95

10/20 - laynie427 - Colorado

10/20 - Smiling Panda - New Jersey

10/20 - Kya Wolf - North Carolina

10/21 - FireWife678 - Iowa

10/21 - krimrod

10/21 - manibeaux - Mexico

10/22 - Vsglady - Maryland

10/22 - Monasongbird_38 - Georgia

10/23 - Jen - a work in progress - Wisconscin

10/24 - librarianlk - Alaska

10/25 - tiffin-scott

10/27 - kelliebell1973 - Mexico

10/28 - pink1028 - New York

10/28 - readyforitnow - North Carolina

10/28 - sschoch

10/29 - Lazy_Lilly

10/29 - Skinnyme45

10/29 - reeny

10/29 - Stephanie Kandace - New York

Waiting for Date

JerzyTomato74 - New Jersey

jessiquoi - Maryland

paigecoop -

Gendy - Iowa

lindalue - Minnesota

hogman - New Jersey

CherokeeGirl - Arizona

zcortes21 - Delaware

veronicalynnnnnnn

RedDirtRoads

Soontobeskinny2014

downsizingdarby

dogloverlosingit - Iowa

candicanec - Maryland

poginut

Changed to November

happymama2014 - California

good luck to all