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Keshajo1    61

Keshajo1
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Wow I can't believe that it's over. I have been planning, researching, obsessing over going to TJ for VSG for the past 6 months. I arrived in TJ on Wednesday (5/27/15) evening, sleeved on Thursday (5/28/15) morning and now I have just arrived back home. Whew!!! I feel great, no significant pain to speak of, and minus the immediate post Op phase no lingering nausea. Still a long road ahead of me but grateful to be on the sleeved side of the fence????????

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JamieLogical    8,727

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Congrats on joining the losers bench! Glad to hear you are feeling okay so far. Take it very easy. Don't push yourself too far too fast. Sip, sip, sip and walk, walk walk!

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wascott    395

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Congratulations and good luck! I'll be doing the same thing in 3 weeks.

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Keshajo1    61

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I went through Bariatric Pal. Dr Carlos Altimarano. He has great bed side manner.

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jmd1223    40

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Hi Keshajo1,

I'm scheduled with Dr Altamirano in August. I would really like to follow your progress if you don't mind.

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Memilie80    18

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Congratulations and good luck! I'll be doing the same thing in 3 weeks.

. Whose your surgery date and doctor?

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wascott    395

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@@Memilie80 My surgery date is June 22nd with Dr Ariel Ortiz at the OCC.< /p>

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wascott    395

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@@JamieLogical I survived day 1. :) Just starting day 2. I'm giving my treadmill a rest until I do this a few days. I just keep thinking that this will get me closer to my final goal and is a short term challenge that I can do.

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JamieLogical    8,727

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@@JamieLogical I survived day 1. :) Just starting day 2. I'm giving my treadmill a rest until I do this a few days. I just keep thinking that this will get me closer to my final goal and is a short term challenge that I can do.

Yeah, I tried keeping up with my cardio in the beginning, but when I did the math and realized I was only "eating" about 450 calories a day on the pre-op diet and burning about 500-600 through cardio, I realized it wouldn't be long before I just collapsed. So I ended up having to cut way back on my cardio as well.

I literally got to the point in those first 4-5 days of the pre-op where it was too much physical effort for me to even wash my hair!

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wascott    395

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@@JamieLogical I know what you mean. I'm also worried that I'd get to the point where I'd feel like I had to eat. After a couple more days I'll do some short walks to keep my routine going.

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soonsleeved    18

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please tell me about your stitches and was there a drain

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Shustar    395

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I got sleeved on June 8th in TJ. One of the best trips I have ever taken! to answer you questions about stitches and drain: there were no stitches on the 4 small incisions for the laparoscopy and they were sealed with surgical glue.I did have a drain which was removed on the 3rd morning beore we were released. The removal was ot real pleasant but only lasted for a few seconds. No big deal. You will be fine!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        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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