I just found out my surgery will be in July (granted my pre-op testing goes okay) SOOOOOOOOO

Here's a thread for everyone getting banded in July 07!

Does anyone have any good ideas for a neat name we could call ourselves?

I just took a picture of myself in the bathroom mirror, does anyone know how to make it smaller?????? :help:

I have been so hungry today that I have been nauseous most of the time. I know the band isn't filled yet, which makes this "bandster hell" but come on - this is going to be a nightmare until I get to mushies. I see my doc on Thursday, I'm praying that he'll let me skip ahead a week and start eating soft foods. When scrambled eggs sound like heaven, I know that I am in trouble...

cherrybomb, have you tried cottage cheese yet. It's filling for me, and has a lot of protein in it.

Can you have soup? Try getting a chunky soup like vegetable or chicken noodle and blending it good. Eat slowly, and chew any biger chunks, but it's satisfying.

Are you adding protein powder to anything other than shakes?

Felicia, what did you do girl, you blew up our whole page with your pic!!!!!!

You're beautiful. BTW!!!

Felicia, sorry, but I don't know anything about the pictues.

So how close do you think we are to a new page. Just trying to bump us to another one.

Hi Everyone! What a great support this is for me! I am in the home stretch of my pre-op diet. 6 more days until surgery! I have actually been doing surprisingly well! I went to the doctors on Friday and have already lost 14 pounds from my pre-op diet. I have not cheated once which is unheard of for me! I am the queen of finding little ways to cheat. You know... like my finger "accidentally" slips in the frosting. Just wanted to say thanks again for keeping me focused on my goal!

I knew I was gonna get yelled at for that:rolleyes.... I'll try to bump to a new page

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Ok, I mentally know this pre-op diet is only for 7 days and I know I should be able to suck it up and suck down those liquids but these shakes are getting to me! My pre-op diet consists of 3-4 protein shakes, nothing else. I have cheated a bit and substituted low fat soup for one of the shakes every day. I thought I was going to seriously lose it today though when we went to Wal-mart to get some more shakes and then ran through the food area for some dinner things for the rest of the family. Talk about drama Queen, I felt like throwing myself on the floor and having a tantrum while they were eating their sandwiches. Two more days and then surgery, it will be a relief just to be done with this phase of the process. To go from 4000+ calories a day to 700 has been a shock to the system. On the bright side of things, my weaning off of Diet Pepsi has been much easier as I am so focused on my limited food selections. Has anyone tried the raspberry lemonade Crystal Lite? It's the best, I've been sucking it down like crazy the last few days! Oh, and the second brightest thing is that I'm down 4 pounds since starting the liquids. So now as I'm typing this I'm giving myself a mental kick and saying, what the @#$# are you complaining about?! Ok, sorry for the verbal diarrhea, just had to get this off of my chest.

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