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I just want to be healthy in all actuality. So I am a 28 year old nurse who just recently graduated university with my degree in Science in nursing. In the last four years of school I have dealt with my little brother who has been diagnosed as menatlly ill, tried to finish school, met my fiance, and tried to keep my spirts up as i found that during this time I have continued to gain and gain and gain. So now, school is over, work is good, fiance is good, life is good, but I dont feel good. So savings are coming out of the bank and away I go. I was originally scheduled for surgery on the 15th of August, but like a dream come true, I got a phone call to go early, so May 30th is the day. So I am excited about the future, but nervous about the surgery. I am 350lbs and 5'6 I am scared about being put out. I am not nervous about the actual procedure or after, I have a high pain tolerance and a lot of great family around me, not to mention the 50 nurses I went to school with! So here I am at the begining of my journey, and nervous and excited about what the future now has to hold for me. Almost makes me cry, but it is happy crying. So I live in Canada and see from reading the various posts that there are small variations on how some of the surgery is done, but the results are the same. I have been overweight my whole life, and wonder how life will differ as I loose. Thanks for the inspiration and amazing stories, and I am basically here to meet people who will have or have had surgery and to listen to peoples stories. The idea of this life changing event coming my way feels like a gift, the begining of a new me, and a new lease on life....:confused:

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Hi Shannon! Congratulations on your early surgery date! It sounds like you have a lot to be excited about in your life. Good luck to you and keep us posted on your progress! Are you doing a pre-op diet of any kind?

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Thanks you guys, I am really excited, and beyond thrilled that my date was moved up. My doctor did not say anything about a diet prior to surgery. However I am going to do a liquid diet of sorts for 12 days before. Yogurt, milk, blended fruit and Jello, maybe some mashed Beans, but it is more for me and so that the change after surgery won't be such a big shock. Right now I am just trying to eat healthy, lots of veggies, and protiens and avoiding carbs. Other than that i am winging it! Thanks again I will keep you all posted as I get closer to the date. Good thing to come!

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Since your doctor has not specifically prescribed a diet, look around on the boards and there are loads of ideas here based on what other doctors are doing. Sounds like you are off to a good start! Good luck to you!

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Thanks! I have certainly gotten a few ideas and think I will be ok, but don't you worry I will be frantically typing with my questions and concerns, and of course updates!

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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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      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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      1. summerseeker

        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.

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

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