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Hey everybody! I've been lurking on this site for about a year now, researching, looking at pictures, stock-piling information. I've finally decided to come out of the shadows! I'm will be sleeved on December 11th in Kentucky.

I'm 23 years old and weigh 349 lbs. 5'10. My highest weight was 375 lbs this past January. I've done the six month diet for insurance, had all of my testing and meetings with doctors, nurses, and my surgeon. Only thing left is Pre-Admission Testing on 12/10/14 and then MY SURGERY ON DECEMBER 11th!!!!! WAAAAH! I work as a restaurant manager so on my feet allllll day. Taking two weeks off work. It's kind of like a vacation (heh heh heh). Pre-op diet starts on Thanksgiving but I've eaten 22 Thanksgivings in my life. I can make it without this one.

Anyway! I'm really excited if nobody can tell :P lol. I see all of you guys talking and supporting each other and sometimes it's hard for me to take that first step to be social with new people, so here goes. Hope everybody is doing well!

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This is me! The first pic is me at my HW at my wedding at 375 lbs

The second is me at my current weight, 349, fitting (barely) into my first Goal Outfit!

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Btw, sorry about the sideways picture! No matter how much I tried I could not figure out how to make it up-and-down.

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Best of luck to you on your journey! I wish I'd had this opportunity in my 20s! I'm delighted I have it at all, but oh I feel my little sleeve would've kept me on the right path for so much of my 20's and 30's.

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Congrats! I will have a date set when I see the surgeon on Dec. 5th but already know I will have to wait until the first the year for a date. Best wishes on your surgery, I know you're ready as I am too! Nice Christmas gift!

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Best wishes on your journey!! I'm having my surgery Dec 10th, just got my date this evening. Very exciting but do have some nervousness going on:)

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Welcome. Can't wait to see your transformation. Your already a beautiful young women.

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Thank you all for your good wishes and welcomes :)

I'm super excited, but nervous. But I know this will help me to get healthy again and be a preventive measure for my future so I'm glad I'm getting sleeved so young. I'll keep everyone posted!

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Congratulations!! I was 23 when I was sleeved as well. It's great that you made the decision young so you can live the better part of your adult life healthy! The weeks leading up to surgery are a very exciting time! Can't wait to hear how it goes!

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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
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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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      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.

        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.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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