I cant stand the wait!! I dont even start my preop diet for another 12 days. I may start it sooner just to be sure my liver is perfect. Ins is approved as soon as I get 5yrs of weights to them which I will get tomorrow from my endocrinologist. Anyone else start the diet earlier than you were supposed to? What can I do to speed up the time? I feel like I have read and researched everything there is and when I try to look for more info, its all so repetitive. The days are dragging by so incredibly SLOOOWWWWW!!!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

What an exciting time! I used Lapbantalk.com for my support. Go to the newbie thread and post a newbie post to let people know you are new and your banding date. You should get some good responses. Good luck to you!

Thanks for the reply. I have been here almost a month so I'm not really a newbie anymore. But it's nice to meet you :tt1: I love this forum, I spend hours a day reading here.

Me too! My husband thinks I'm addicted. I come here all day long! Good luck with your surgery. You will love your band!

I was just banded last week and I had my surgery date since the end of July. I wait 5 MONTHS! Talk about the days dragging! I found LBT about a week after getting my date and I just read and read and read as much as I could! I thought January would NEVER come and now I'm 1 week post-op!!

I see you've lost weight pre-op, which is great! That's basically what I did to pass the time. I did low carb starting the week after getting my surgery date up until the day of surgery and I lost 55lbs. My surgery date was a motivator to get as much weight off as possible before surgery so I would have less to lose with the band. That's not really you're situation now since you're just a few weeks away.

Besides that, I'm a full time college student so I was busy with school, so I didn't have all day to think about it, which was a good thing.

It can't hurt to start the diet early unless you feel like you might get burned out when you really need to be doing the diet properly and you'll give in and eat stuff you're not supposed to, which would not be a good thing.

Good luck with everything! It will come soon!

My surgery is Feb 14 in Mexico with Dr Rumbaut. I wish it were tomorrow! Its like waiting for xmas.

I was to be on the pre-op diet for seventeen days but I was lucky enough--my surgery was rescheduled and I was only on it nine days!

Here's what I would say to you: Try to get a Protein shake in each day (hopefully powder, low carb) which will curb your appetite. Also, if you've begun working out, work out more! After working out, you really don't have much hunger. If you haven't started working out, now is your best time to start!!

And at the end of the day--go to bed early--you won't be thinking about and tempted by food!!

It is just terrific that you want to begin your new life as soon as possible!!