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I can’t quote from my phone, but my diet is the same. 2 shakes and a sensible dinner with 4/6oz of meat. Can also have a third shake if needed at night but haven’t done that yet. Also having one serving of dairy a day, and I gave up caffeine 😩.
I definitely am not as tired today on day 4 as I was on day 1!

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On 6/20/2019 at 5:51 PM, Nefelibata214 said:

Thank you! Best of luck to you too! When is your surgery?

July 18th 😀😀

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On 6/13/2019 at 2:06 PM, amaynard said:

July 2 here! Super excited, little nervous! Preop appt scheduled for next Friday the 21rst! It’s getting real!

How was your preop appt today? My preop appt is on the 27th.

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We’re all getting close! My preop visit was June 10 Our Preop Testing is June 28th. Time is CRAWLING but 18 days til July 9th!

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20 minutes ago, Mom_of_Chaos said:

We’re all getting close! My preop visit was June 10 Our Preop Testing is June 28th. Time is CRAWLING but 18 days til July 9th!

My pre-op class and labs were June 18. Just 11 more days til my rny on July 3! It's hard to focus on anything else aside from our big day!

Good luck to all of us July Siblings!

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I have finished my Preop nutrition classes and psych evaluation. I have also finished all of my Preop weight-ins and received my referral letter for surgery. Just waiting to have my EGD on August 23rd and get my surgery date. My insurance didn’t require a 6 month weight-in! Thank Goodness! I’m so ready! Waiting on my surgery date! But I’m already experiencing backlash from friends!

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On 6/20/2019 at 2:53 PM, tal said:

I didnt tell anyone either about this surgery. Congrats on making this decision!! Good luck! 😀

Congratulations Midnight Sun and Tal. I'm also keeping this surgery myself. You've got a whole community here of ppl...

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On 6/19/2019 at 11:36 AM, Nefelibata214 said:

Hi everyone! First time posting! My surgery will be July 10th! So excited and nervous. My biggest fear is that it won't work. I've dieted all my life and while I can always lose weight, I always gain it back and I think I've messed up my metabolism so bad. I can survive on nothing, so I'm scared the surgery won't help that much. I know it probably sounds irrational, but that's my biggest fear, aside from dying of course and leaving my children with my ex....

Think positive! My surgeon was saying this has such a high success rate so as long as you do what they tell you everything will be great! Our nurse had the sleeve and lost 90lbs. She said even if I slip up and eat Cookies I am limited to how many I can eat not like before so it keeps everything in line. You will do great!

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3 hours ago, Krimsonbutterflies said:

Congratulations Midnight Sun and Tal. I'm also keeping this surgery myself. You've got a whole community here of ppl...

Congratulations to you two as well! Excited to see how everyone does. I had my surgeon visit Friday and my nutritionist appointment this Monday. I start my 2 week liver shrinking diet Monday. Being bad this weekend. If anyone has a Sams Club near them they have the Premiere Protein on sale for 3 or 4 dollars less each pack.

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On 6/22/2019 at 7:47 AM, lovingme50 said:

I have finished my Preop nutrition classes and psych evaluation. I have also finished all of my Preop weight-ins and received my referral letter for surgery. Just waiting to have my EGD on August 23rd and get my surgery date. My insurance didn’t require a 6 month weight-in! Thank Goodness! I’m so ready! Waiting on my surgery date! But I’m already experiencing backlash from friends!

It took me legit 9 months to get my surgery date and im less than 3 weeks away from my 1st ever surgery. It was so worth it. Im so excited and cant wait! Good luck to you!

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I'm glad I found the July group!!! I looked and only saw June, but someone mentioned the July group on another thread and I found yall! I'm getting my sleeve done on July 23rd. I could of done it sooner July 2nd, but we booked and paid for a cabana over the Water mid July so I didn't wanna be in pain or not up for travelling. So I pushed my surgery out. At the time I was in a meh mood for the surgery. I wasn't excited for it, but I wasn't not unhappy about it. I kept thinking about everything I was going to be missing. But after coming back to Bpal and reading everyone's stories and realizing that its not forever and that eventually I'll be able to eat things like steak again. ( I love steak lol)… I started to get excited about the surgery and started getting ready for it!

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Sam's club is the place for Premier Protein drinks right now, until July 14th. I think I will have 2 shakes a day and a sensible 500 - 600 calorie meal, but I will run this by my Dr on Thursday. Eating 1500 calories a day is a daunting task for me right now do to my body drama. I'm also on hormone therapy as a result and don't want to start gaining weight as a result during the pre-op phase. I want to be surgery ready, once the body drama is settled and treated. I've been on this journey since last September and decided in April to get the vsg...in the Kaiser process now and looking to have surgery in the beginning of 2020...this body drama wasn't in the plans and neither were my crazy labs...

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2 hours ago, MeowAMR said:

I'm glad I found the July group!!! I looked and only saw June, but someone mentioned the July group on another thread and I found yall! I'm getting my sleeve done on July 23rd. I could of done it sooner July 2nd, but we booked and paid for a cabana over the Water mid July so I didn't wanna be in pain or not up for travelling. So I pushed my surgery out. At the time I was in a meh mood for the surgery. I wasn't excited for it, but I wasn't not unhappy about it. I kept thinking about everything I was going to be missing. But after coming back to Bpal and reading everyone's stories and realizing that its not forever and that eventually I'll be able to eat things like steak again. ( I love steak lol)… I started to get excited about the surgery and started getting ready for it!

Yay im so happy and excited for you!! Im extremely anxious and excited too. This will be my very first surgery but its going to be worth it. July 18th cant come soon enough, good luck for yours!!😊

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5 minutes ago, Krimsonbutterflies said:

Sam's club is the place for Premier Protein drinks right now, until July 14th. I think I will have 2 shakes a day and a sensible 500 - 600 calorie meal, but I will run this by my Dr on Thursday. Eating 1500 calories a day is a daunting task for me right now do to my body drama. I'm also on hormone therapy as a result and don't want to start gaining weight as a result during the pre-op phase. I want to be surgery ready, once the body drama is settled and treated. I've been on this journey since last September and decided in April to get the vsg...in the Kaiser process now and looking to have surgery in the beginning of 2020...this body drama wasn't in the plans and neither were my crazy labs...

I have kaiser also. But good luck to you on your surgery and thank you for the information about sams!😊

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4 hours ago, tal said:

It took me legit 9 months to get my surgery date and im less than 3 weeks away from my 1st ever surgery. It was so worth it. Im so excited and cant wait! Good luck to you!

I started this process in April 2018 and finally got my surgery date last month.

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      1. NickelChip

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