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I would love to be buddies with yall as well. I live in Midland TX, which is about an 8-9 hour drive from Houston. Almost as far as Carolina hahaha. My surgery is also November 17th. I am finding myself being anxious, a little impatient, and kinda grumpy the last few days. I think I am really anxious about the pre op diet I start Tuesday. I hardly ever get worked up about things, but I can tell that is getting to me.

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Yes, I'm getting anxious too and my mind is telling me that I saying goodbye to all the good food and I know that's not true. I'm thinking of everything I want to eat prior to Tuesday????

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I do not know the time. I know...... I have always felt like I can never have any more good food hahaha. It will be that way for like 8 weeks though.... might as well be forever :)

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No lets just think that this will be the beginning of a new struggles but amazing NSV and scale ones too lol

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I'm becoming a complete nut job because I'm so freaked out about the surgery. Truly thought today was Thursday and left my work laptop at home but didn't realize that until I got to work....would have lost my head somewhere along the way if it wasn't permanently attached...

Yeah I'm obsessing about what all do I want to eat before the surgery...definitely a good filet minion because who knows if my stomach will ever tolerate that in any form other than ground up and that is definitely not the same...

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I know. I'm thinking about all the seafood I'm wanting prior to Tuesday. Lets all try to stay positive. We are doing this surgery for all the right reasons. I desperately want off the blood pressure meds and the diabetic medication. I want to do fun things with my ten year old without being so tired and I want to be around for him for many more years. To me, it's all worth it, but I'm still going to eat my heart out prior to Tuesday ????

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Hi All, I am scheduled for November 13th. I don't know where I really fit in on these boards as I am not having the traditional sleeve surgery. I am having something very similar called Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty. It will be done at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan. there is no cutting of the stomach involved, just stitching to change the shape of my stomach into a sleeve. And it is not done laproscopically, it is done through an upper endoscopy. I believe the post op is similar the surgery you are all having but the pre-op is much different. It is not necessary to go on a liquid diet prior.

I wish I could find others who will be doing what I am doing. I have a feeling this procedure will become quite popular once there is a CPT code for it this way Insurance companies can get on board with it. However with that said I know 2 people who have had this and with proper documentation they appealed the denials and got it covered anyway.

Good luck to you all!

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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.

        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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