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August 6th, 2008 Surgery Date????



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Does anyone else have a August 6th surgery date? If so or anywhere near it....maybe we can all stick together threw this process!:thumbup:

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mine is in november dunno what day yet but my 23rd birthday is august 7TH lol good luck to you both

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me too... A bit different here in Canada but Aug. 6th is my date and I am very excited... have to do a 2 week pre op diet and I live alone so need to get shopping and get in all the products I might think I need....Have a contact here in my City of Chilliwack that has had surgery and so feeling very lucky and supported... Knee surgery in two weeks and then lap band and hope I can avoid knee replacement.. Plus want to look sexy again...

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mine is august the 1st. have just told the one person who i have known for the longest to keep my secret, so i have someone with me for the first 24 hrs home, as i live by myself too. what is on your shopping list, katie? i have to do a one week one, however, as it looked nice with the ammount of fruit and veg in it, i have started it 4 days ago. to see how it went.

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Yeah...I'm not alone!(: I'm having my surgery 4 days before mine and my soon to be 4 years olds birthday!

Fleminld-I see you have lost 29 lbs already what have you been doing to get the weight off? I have to lose 10 lbs before my surgery...I'm getting nerve about it because were doing all our get aways this month....on Thursday I'm leaving to Vegas Baby for four nights and then at the end of the month I'm going to my sister's house in Paso Robles, CA and that involves alot of going out, wine tasteing, as well as we have front row tickets for Fergie! I'm super excited about that! My surgery date was supposed to be July 21th but I changed it because I felt like I was setting myself up to fail.

Keisha you have only told one person? Well, you'll have us as well for support! I have told the world, I'm too much of a open book.

Katie have you started your pre-op diet already or does it start two weeks before surgery? (Was that a stupid question?LOL) Good luck with your knee surgery! I've been having knee problems as well I'm hoping that by losing my weight is going to hope avoid further problems!

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ive only told one person, because i needed someone with me for the first 24 hrs home. no one else knows. dont want them to, until i can see it actually working!

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I started dieting doing weight watchers and walking my dog some back in febuary. Started the process with my insurance in october 2007, got the approval in febuary from them. I think it was april i did all the doctors tests and psych eval and since then have been waiting on the list for a surgery date. I still have the oreintation class and pre-op vist with the doc to do. I had to join a weight management program thrue my doc that is a year long series of phone calls from a nutrionist. I have my first tomorrow morning about the pre-op diet. I was told back in april that they wanted me to loose 8 more pounds before surgery. I was worried that since I had already been loosing some, that i wouldn't be able to loose 8 more, but I have managed to do so. i am hoping that they dont tell me i need to loose another 8. I dont have a liquid diet to do except for just the day before surgery.

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I got a cancellation date so I am now getting banded two weeks from today... Yikes... Very excited so now I will be a July bandster.... don't worry... I will still log onto your thread and see how you all are doing... now I am REALLY excited.

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I'm so excited for you! R U done with your pre-Op diet? Did you lose any weight? You have to keep me (us) posted with your step by steps!!(:

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    • Alisa_S

      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.

        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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