I am now 8 days away from surgery (if you don't count sleeping tonight). I am excited and can hardly weight (HA HA) to get rid of this wait (HA HA again) and it on with a healthy life. I have a very good support group and even when I tell someone about the upcoming surgery they seems to be excited for me. The biggest reaction I have is that "Why would you do that you're not fat". Well personally I call 103 pounds overweight "fat". My health problems have gotten to the point that is not about wearing smaller jeans anymore, it is about being around to see my granchildren's children. The Pre-Op diet is not as bad as I thought it was going to be although I do get hungry. Not sure how much weight I am suppose to loose during this phase but in the past 5 days I have lost about 6 1/2 pounds. YEA!! This site has been great and look forward to posting one of those weight lose things if I can figure out how to do it. Thanks for listening.

Good luck Karlvr! You have a great attitude, and that's half of the battle.

Best wishes for a quick recovery.

Sue

Thanks! I am so excited. I found the thingy. My surgery date just called for the design.

Hi karlvr,

I will be banded on 11/1. I also have had people tell me, "you're not fat, why do this" They just really don't understand the struggles to keep it off...I'm sure these same people will tell me I look anorexic when I get to goal. I started out 130 pounds overweight, now about 93 overweight. Do they not see what I see??? How can they miss that? I totally understand where you are coming from. Good luck and hang in there. I agree the pre-op diet hasn't been too bad, I started it a week early, so on day 12 I have lost about 7.5pounds, hope to lose another 4 or 5 before surgery!