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Evie82

By Evie82, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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Evie82    0

Evie82
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Loudow68 I'm v near Epping. I'm also going private. Just booked in to see a consultant I know at the Spire Hartswood hospital in Brentwood. Also comes with lifelong dietician and specialist nurse follow up.

It's good to hear how positive you are post op. I'm trying to work on my head hunger now. Was psychology part of ur package or is that separate?

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Loudow68    8

Loudow68
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Hey Evie

No it's was private .. I sought out a counsellor.. tbh the pre-op diet was a lot easier than I thought it would be .. and I have support with dietician. I've heard good things about Spire. You won't look back ! I do recommend getting a counsellor it really works for me .. I needed to really thrush out my food addiction .. and still doing it. My stomach and my head still occasionally have a "Mexican stand off".. but I'm a working process ., excuse the cheese .. but that's what I am! Let me know how you get on ! X

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I was sick a few times when ate too much or liquid too soon after food. Not nice! Sleeved privately in August and lost a total of 50 lbs. I'm a slow loser and also finding it hard to give up wine..

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sk101    67

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Hiya

Lets start by saying that this is not a simple journey to undertake!

How you deal with it depends on how your mind set is.

I went down the NHS route and it took 2 years from start to finish and I have no regrets doing it that way. There was lots of preparation both mentally and physically.

As for the vomiting issue. Mine was happening on a daily basis but it was mostly mucus. This was caused by me eating food I was not really ready for and the body tried to compensate by producing more Fluid to wash it down, hence being sick. Its not pleasant but luckily there was no damage done. Lesson learnt for me was I needed to spend 6 weeks on the puree stage as opposed to the two weeks that were recommended.

We are all different and all have to learn

Good luck

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Di_    34

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Head hunger is hard to conquer. I'm not gonna lie I sometimes miss being able to eat a big plate of food but it's not something I dwell on and I don't have regrets at all.

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    • Alisa_S

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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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