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Willowwind    0

Willowwind
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Hey guys and girls!

I was banded on May 2nd, 2007. I've lost 15 pounds so far, but that's just from the liquid diet part. I am however having some issues that I thought you guys could give me some advice on. I'm feeling regretful about my surgery. I feel sad. I question myself as to whether I made the right decision. Is this normal? Has anyone else kinda gotten depressed afterwards?

Anywho, nice to meet y'all. I'll be postin round these parts! :)

Love and happiness,

Will

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Iluvharleys    15

Iluvharleys
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Welcome to LBT and to bandland! I have heard a lot of people that have felt that way at first, but as the time went on and they learned how to work with the band they felt different. Good Luck!

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*susan*    1,709

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Hi and welcome. I understand your feeling regretful. I am assuming right now you are still on liquids? Once you are able to return to regular eating, I think those feelings will dissipate. Especially once you reach proper restriction and you start really losing the weight.

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Willowwind    0

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Yeah, I'm not on liquids anymore. My Doc said if I tolerated scrambled eggs then I can move on to baked chicken/fish. I tried baked fish last night for the first time and it was heaven. I still feel kinda depressed but it makes sense that it will stop when I start seeing serious results. Thanks for your words of encouragement.

Love and happiness!

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sjmimi    0

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Hi Willow,

Congratulations on your band, and your progress! I just had the surgery last Friday (5/11). So far everything has been great - maybe a little daunting - but great.

I can totally relate to what you're saying. Sorta like "buyers remorse". I saw a pizza Hut commercial yesterday, and for a few minutes I had this panicky feeling that I want this thing off my stomach. I want to eat 2 or 3 pieces of pizza (or 4 or 5). I wanna order Chinese food!

These emotions are normal. It's our old emotions trying to pull us back into the false safety and comfort of too much food - whenever we want it, and however much we want! It doesn't feel good to try and change what we're used to, even though we know our lives depend on that change.

Sit with the feelings for awhile, then let them move on. They will.

We're taking control of our health and our lives - and once that sinks in it WILL FEEL GREAT!

Best of luck to you. Keep in touch!

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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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      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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