I finally made the thread for those of us who are scheduled for May 15th. It'll be fun to hear how all of us are doing during our journeys. Feel free to share!

There are many of us on pre-ops now and some have a few days. Just about a week left!!! How awesome and exciting it is! ?

Dont forget to FOLLOW the thread!

7 minutes ago, Apple1 said:

I would feel better if I was at 70-75g. I don't want to lose too much muscle.

You can do it!

1 minute ago, Newme17 said:

Oh good grief, I'm crying about the little girl ventriloquist on AGT. ? ? So touching.

hormones out of whack... haha

lol....

Good evening ladies, Judging from your posts all went today. Hopefully, e-mails will get answered swiftly and keep up the great work with your diets. Sending all my thoughts and love to you all. I return to work on the 12th. Post op follow up on june 6 so all is good bout to turn in nighty night.

16 minutes ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Good evening ladies, Judging from your posts all went today. Hopefully, e-mails will get answered swiftly and keep up the great work with your diets. Sending all my thoughts and love to you all. I return to work on the 12th. Post op follow up on june 6 so all is good bout to turn in nighty night.

Your thoughts and love are well received! Sending you the same hon. You still have almost two weeks till work, how awesome is that? Have yourself a great night hon. Sleep well. ??

I have my first op appt tomorrow at 9. I'll be sure to give y'all an update shortly afterwards.

On 5/29/2017 at 8:15 PM, Apple1 said:

Wow 5"7 sounds like me growing up. I was always one of the tallest girls in my class.

My dh and I have been empty nesters for many years now, but I am so blessed to have my grandchildren living so close. They are only 6 minutes away by car.

listening to yours and newme17 stories about your children brings back so many memories.

Sorry for the late posting but yes she is the tallest. I swear i don't where she puts the food but she got the longest legs and she is stretched out. She don't even fit in the bed cause she sleeps all over it.

On 5/29/2017 at 9:59 PM, Newme17 said:

And she's 12? Wow. It seems the age...my step daughter has always been thin, but now she's stick thin, long and lanky like. It's amazing what she can eat. Even before surgery she still ate more than me. Don't know where it all goes. lol

Oh yes!!!! My daughter has always been tall for her age her legs got longer and body got thinner. Like feeding a baby dinosaur really. Lol. Growth spurts. Smh

4 hours ago, Newme17 said:

I have my first op appt tomorrow at 9. I'll be sure to give y'all an update shortly afterwards.

Fingers crossed wish you luck.

5 hours ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Fingers crossed wish you luck.

Can't wait to hear how your appt. w ent this morning @Newme17. That is one disadvantage to have surgery in Mexico.. no checkups.

5 hours ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Sorry for the late posting but yes she is the tallest. I swear i don't where she puts the food but she got the longest legs and she is stretched out. She don't even fit in the bed cause she sleeps all over it.

Good morning @Sweet as peaches. Thank you for always posting such encouraging words.

Today is a much easier day at work. All the emails are caught up so I have some time to check in. Today will be my first lunch outing with co-workers. We are having a going away party for one of my students leaving for grad school. I will order soup and hopefully nobody notices how little I am eating.

10 hours ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Good evening ladies, Judging from your posts all went today. Hopefully, e-mails will get answered swiftly and keep up the great work with your diets. Sending all my thoughts and love to you all. I return to work on the 12th. Post op follow up on june 6 so all is good bout to turn in nighty night.

That is awesome that you are off until the 12th. Enjoy your time. Are you picking up anynew hobbies?

Good morning everyone. I'm still at my appt airing for the next phase. I just had a great conversation with my nut. She's awesome. I told her my frustrations with the whole carb thing. ? Thankfully she isn't about no carbs. She wants me to have complex carbs. Doesn't want me to count but have an idea based on how I'm feeling doing, what protein, carbs, and fats I'm having daily. She's put a lot of trust in me, simply because I used to study nutrition in college. I was studying to become a nutritionist, lol. Go figure!!!!! I didn't finish it though, decided to work in accounting. I still have that knowledge but didn't put it to use the past 8 years or so.

As for exercise, she wants me to do interval cardio. Nothing high intensity now, still healing but when walking, walk faster for three mins, then walk slow for a few mins. Keep repeating that. That'll help keep my muscle cause I'm pretty sure I lost some.

Oh, here's the exciting part. I'm down 14 pounds since surgery (and that's starting my menstrual yesterday!). I now weigh 230. My starting weight was 258. So a total of 28 lbs down. My highest ever was 266, but I managed to lose 8 lbs in like a year, lol, before I started this journey.

Funny thing is, it's great the weight I lost, but I haven't really put much emphasis on he number, I'm just glad that my clothes are getting lose and I'm finally walking a bunch more. So glad I did this. I'm so glad. ?

1 hour ago, Apple1 said:

Good morning @Sweet as peaches. Thank you for always posting such encouraging words.

Today is a much easier day at work. All the emails are caught up so I have some time to check in. Today will be my first lunch outing with co-workers. We are having a going away party for one of my students leaving for grad school. I will order Soup and hopefully nobody notices how little I am eating.

I'm assuming they don't know. ? I'm sure it wouldn't be noticed. Besides, you can always say you're not that hungry now.

7 hours ago, Sweet as peaches said:

Oh yes!!!! My daughter has always been tall for her age her legs got longer and body got thinner. Like feeding a baby dinosaur really. Lol. Growth spurts. Smh

Lol. Baby dinosaur. I love it. ?

Here is some post op papers if y'all would like to review.