I just received my date today and it's 8/24. Looking for some date buddies. Anyone?

8-24 chic here!

I just got back from grocery store buying few more items for pre diet

8-24 chic here!

I just got back from grocery store buying few more items for pre diet

Yay! Congrats on your date too! No pre-op diet required for me, just fasting after midnight. I have to check in at 6:00 am with surgery at 8:15. What about you?

10 day pre diet 7 days full liquid--3 days clear

Check in at 7am surgery @9:30

I am having in Mobile,Al

I just found out today too that I'm scheduled for Aug 24th!! I have 2 weeks of 2 shakes a day with meal of 4-6oz Protein with 1/2 cup of veggies so starting Monday!!! LOL Monnie815 I don't live too far from Mobile but I'm going to Huntsville, AL to stay with my parents when I have my surgery.

I will have mine in Jacksonville, Florida. It seems like it is still a long way out, but in reality, it's just over two weeks. I am sooooo ready to do this!

I have family in Huntsville also...I live 100 miles from Mobile up 43N

I live about 2 1/2 hrs NE from Mobile In Covington County. How cool that you have family in Humtsville too!!!

8/24 IS MY BIRTHDAY!!

I wish I was getting sleeved on my birthday lol.

Well we'll be celebrating with you on your birthday glitterpockets every year from now on - grin!!!

Hey - hello from up north! I'm in southern Connecticut, just outside NY and just found this link. I am also on for 8/24. Just finished day 5 of 10 day liquid Optifast. I'm beginning to get very antsy and wish I could bite into something - Jello doesn't cut it!

My doctor said that the last 2 days (after 10 day opti) are Clear liquids only. This is especially tricky because my husband and I are taking our 2 teenagers on a driving vacation this coming week, returning only the day before surgery (was only week that possibly worked!)

I am ok walking into restaurants with my shake boxes and asking for a full glass of ice, but I don't want to lose resolve and give in to temptation. And I am hungry a lot of the time. Any I need to figure out what clear liquids I can manage while on the road.

Any advice would be welcome! Thanks and good luck to all as we wind down ...

I'm scheduled for August 24th too!!! SO excited!

I'm also terrified. I've tried so many diets and exercise programs and they always show very little progress if any, I have this little voice in the back of my head saying I've gone to all this trouble and all these hoops jumped through and I'm gonna be that one anomaly that will get the surgery and somehow through all the special diets and following the program for the rest of forever and I will still be this same 52 BMI person. I'm so ready to live my life and be healthy, but it's hard to wrap my head around myself as a healthy person when I have been overweight/obese my entire adult life.

So excited for this new life! #startingnew

8/24 sleeve for me to in Dallas Texas!!!! Start a one week liquid diet today...good luck all!

to Aliciasbrewer -

I totally could have written exactly, word for word, what you said. I have never even been close to thin. (ok so I was when I got married, for like 5 minutes, 30 years ago!)

I am so used to being overweight (bmi 51) that I can't imagine not being so. Or for that matter buying clothes that don't have an x in the size.

At the same like you, (and all of you) I am nervous but so excited to have a new beginning!!

I have my pre-op appointment Friday afternoon. I did my chest x-Ray and EKG yesterday. My surgeon indicated that I had no pre-op diet because my BMI was under 40. In the past, I have been diagnosed with a "fatty" liver - due to several issues. My surgeon is aware, as he evaluated the diagnosing scan before he removed my gall bladder in December.

Here is my dilemma...

I was very relieved at not having a pre-op diet, so I didn't object and make a case against my (presumably still) fatty liver. In my mind, he is already aware and maybe it isn't fatty anymore.

Am I fooling myself? What if he notices something in the chest X-ray and decides it needs to shrink and pushes my sleeve out a couple of weeks? What if he gets me in the OR on 8/24 and thinks it's too big and cancels. Should I do a self imposed liquid diet, just in case?

Ugh.

Need4 change he may not have put you on diet because a lower bmi would disqualify you for insurance. Cigna is funky like that I've heArd. Trust you doctor.