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nanaof5    0

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piercedqt78 did you go to Romeoville High School? My son is the same age as you. What a small world you also live in Romeoville, I to am a disney lover.lol How long did it take you to loose all of your weight. Soniacan, how far are you from Romeoville? Yes, getting together would be just great. My doctor has said nothing about testing me for a leak, I asked him if it was possible and he said no. But how would he know for sure if he did not take any test. Who did your surgeries. Thank you for writing me back it was nice to hear from someone so close. Yes i would love to get lunch, maybe the three of us could get together since we all live so close?

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piercedqt78    658

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Sonia are we still on for lunch this weekend? Nana want to join us?

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piercedqt78 did you go to Romeoville High School? My son is the same age as you. What a small world you also live in Romeoville, I to am a disney lover.lol How long did it take you to loose all of your weight. Soniacan, how far are you from Romeoville? Yes, getting together would be just great. My doctor has said nothing about testing me for a leak, I asked him if it was possible and he said no. But how would he know for sure if he did not take any test. Who did your surgeries. Thank you for writing me back it was nice to hear from someone so close. Yes i would love to get lunch, maybe the three of us could get together since we all live so close?

No I didn't go to Romeoville High. But I work for the district. I also have a child in the district. We moved here almost 2 years ago from Chicago Ridge. I had my surgery with Dr. Lahmann at Silver Cross, love him. I lost the bulk of my weight the first 18 months. I have about 20 or 25 pounds to go. I'm pretty happy where I am now, so I really don't stress about it. I went from a 22-24 to a size 10-12 now. Sonia and I are meeting for lunch either tomorrow or sunday, what's good for you? ~Mandy

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i;ll be heading into the city tomorrow evening to make pinewood derby shaped cars out of cake for my nephew - so lunch tomorrow works better than sunday,

Should we try for the panera on boughton in romeoville tomorrow?

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piercedqt78    658

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Either panera or Go Roma in the promanade (sp?) Either one is fine with me. Around 2 ok with you guys?

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soniacan    0

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oooo i'm on their websie now - they have a fund raising program! I'm so one sided! teehee Can we meet closer to 1?

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I have a noon appt to do a piercing, can we make it next weekend? Or I am free on monday, how about you?

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Next weekend it is then. Sat around 1? Do we want Panera or Go Roma? ~Mandy

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What about sun? Is that better? Abi is having surgery on the 28th so next weekends no good for me. ~Mandy

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Contella2003    0

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I am using Dr. Lutfi at Mercy hospital in Chicago. They are slower than all get out, but they are taking care of all of the paperwork. Has anyone had experience with him? My surgery is 4/8

My sister just moved to lindenhurst, and I would love to meet people too! Count me in!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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