I am pretty excited, obviously!! January 2nd is my date and Iam really looking forward to being a 'loser' this coming year. For once my 'skinny' clothes will be at the front of my closet and I will be hauling the clothes I am wearing now down to goodwill the INSTANT they are too big for me. I am going to shop at the regular stores and might even have a chance to score clothes on the clearance racks *gasp*. My size is NEVER on clearnance. Eye on the prize...eye on the prize..

Best wishes to all you folks getting banded in the next couple days! I am envious. Five more days of pre-op diet. Yuch!

Wow JTag! I can't believe they are saying that because everybody loses so differant. I called my nurse to double check on that and he said that as long as I keep to it they don't care how much I lose before surgery. I gained about 8 pounds though after I saw him so I have dropped about 4 which puts me at 280 but when I saw him I was 276 so I am hoping to drop another 10 pounds to at least be under 276.

Do those Water pills help too??

Hello everyone...haven't been on here in a while but I hope those of you who have crossed over to Bandland are doing good!

Yeah, my doc is ULTRA conservative...which is good, I'm not radical by any stretch of the imagination so it's really pushed me to get serious. AND I've been REALLY good and I hit 20 lbs this morning! With 4 days to go and I will be on liquids Tues/Wed and get "cleaned out" Wed too so I'm feeling much better about making my required weight loss. Plus I just advanced how much closer I am to being in onederland !!!!! YAHOO!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!