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LondonGal12    15

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Hey everyone,

Just thought I'd make a post to check if their were any young-uns in the UK having a gastric sleeve soon like me.

I'm currently 288lbs and am due to have surgery on the 6th April 2017 but would really love to have some gastric buddies in a similar position to go through this with

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Nyletak121    8

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Hey girl,

I'm in my 20's and I am 20 days post-op. I would love to chat.

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LondonGal12    15

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Hey girl,
I'm in my 20's and I am 20 days post-op. I would love to chat.


Ooo lovely congrats!

How are you feeling?



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Nyletak121    8

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I am feeling wonderful! My Dr says that I am doing great! I was off my pain meds almost completely before coming home and have not had any for since day 6. Are you getting excited for your sleeve? That surgery date will be here before you know it.

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LondonGal12    15

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3 hours ago, Nyletak121 said:

I am feeling wonderful! My Dr says that I am doing great! I was off my pain meds almost completely before coming home and have not had any for since day 6. Are you getting excited for your sleeve? That surgery date will be here before you know it.

That's really good, how long did you wait before you went back to work?

Yes, it feels so close the days are just flying by, it'll be surgery day before I know it, definitely getting excited! More for the rest of the year post-surgery tbh, I just feel so ready to get started on my weightloss journey

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Tashagirlxo    41

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[emoji137]? I'm 23 and my surgery is 4/11

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LondonGal12    15

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7 hours ago, Tashagirlxo said:

emoji137.png? I'm 23 and my surgery is 4/11

Hi Tasha :142_dancers:congrats, I'll be 5 days ahead let you know it goes. How long is your liquid diet?

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Tashagirlxo    41

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Hi Tasha :142_dancers:congrats, I'll be 5 days ahead let you know it goes. How long is your liquid diet?

That's awesome! My liquid diet is 2 weeks

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LondonGal12    15

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19 hours ago, Tashagirlxo said:


That's awesome! My liquid diet is 2 weeks

Same here - hopefully it won't be too difficult. How much time are you going to be taking off work/college?

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Tashagirlxo    41

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Same here - hopefully it won't be too difficult. How much time are you going to be taking off work/college?

I'm just taking a month off. I wanna get comfortable adjusting since a lot will be changing. Weighing/measuring food etc


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LondonGal12    15

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I'm only talking 2 weeks but I would take a month if I could. It's definitely going to be a lot to adjust to in the first few weeks



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Nyletak121    8

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I only took a week off. The most challenging part for me was getting in as much Water as possible. I had a lot of swelling which made swallowing difficult and uncomfortable.

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missjrluk    3

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Hello everyone!! I'm new on here and have my planned gastric sleeve op at Kings College on 4th April!!

I am absolutely bricking it!!

How is everyone getting on? I'm scared of being sick all the time, scared I won't drink enough and become ill!! BUT I am trying to be really really positive!

My surgeon has not put me on a pre op diet!

Love to hear from you all

Jade [emoji1325]


Jadey UK

Planned sleeve date 04/04/2017 [emoji173]

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Nyletak121    8

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Jade,

You still have a little bit of time before you would need to start a pre-op diet. They are normally started 1-2 weeks before surgery. Try not to worry too much! Monday the 13th makes 1 month post-op for me and I feel completely normal. Are you afraid of throwing up after surgery? I only had that sensation while in the hospital and they gave me medicine to stop it. You will know long before the point of getting sick when you are full and need to stop eating. As for the Water intake, that was (and still is) a struggle for me. Most of the time though your Fluid intake includes everything you eat after surgery(jello,soup,that sort of thing). As of now I can get about 40oz every day. I'm sure you will do great.

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Evie82    0

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Hey everyone,
Just thought I'd make a post to check if their were any young-uns in the UK having a gastric sleeve soon like me.
I'm currently 288lbs and am due to have surgery on the 6th April 2017 but would really love to have some gastric buddies in a similar position to go through this with []




Hi
I had my surgery on the 7th March. I'm 34 (that's young right?) and live in London too.

I'm 6 days post op and feeling good.

Happy to answer any questions if you've got any.




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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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        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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