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Hi ! I have been an RN for 30 yrs and still working....I work 3 12 hr shifts per week. I love my job in the ER. It is nice to have the 4 days off per week also.

I was just banded 3 days ago....I am doing quite well.

Starting wt 244

Banded by Dr. Laura Machado in Sacramento,Ca.

Sacramento Bariatric Associates (They are great !)

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I am an emergency room nurse. I work twelve hour shifts. I get up at 4am to work out before I go the work. I come home around 8:30-9pm. I try not to eat after 7 pm but that does not happen much. My husband works in radiology. Oh and in my spare time I am raising 3 year old twins :>

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Hi ! I have been an RN for 30 yrs and still working....I work 3 12 hr shifts per week. I love my job in the ER. It is nice to have the 4 days off per week also.

I was just banded 3 days ago....I am doing quite well.

Starting wt 244

Banded by Dr. Laura Machado in Sacramento,Ca.

Sacramento Bariatric Associates (They are great !)

I'm from Sacramento! My family still lives there and my aunt is thinking about the lap band. I will tell her about Sacramento Bariatric Associates. Thanks for the reference! It's amazing what you learn by reading these threads.

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I'm a freelance writer/editor. I have to be careful what I eat when I'm on deadline. The nervous energy in the room effects digestion. I keep it light for those few days...soups, fruit, the strawberry/banana drink at Jamba juice.< /p>

The mag I work comes out quarterly;so those light days are far between.

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Before my car accident I was an elevator constructor. Since then I have been an elevator operator at construction sites bringing fellow tradesmen and there tools up and down. Hence my name goingup. Maybe someday after I loose some weight I may return to construction.

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I'm an Administrative Assitant to an Officer of a major corporation, he tells me I'm the boss....but I don't get his paycheck...

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DA (Double Agent) with the Geek Squad (www.geeksquad.com , not advertising - but for those who don't know what it is I do, this might give you an idea).

Yes I drive around in one of those Geek Mobiles (Geek Squad VW bugs -- have you seen me around the DE, NJ, PA area? Have I come and done work for you???? lmao).

Love this new job, been doing PC work for almost 16 years, and can't get enough of it!!!!

Of course, having been an ex-sonarman onboard submarines (was attached to 3 differnt ones during my career) they tell me my insanity comes from the lack of sunshine and 'real' oxygen - truth be told, I was born nutty!!

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I'll be a full time student in college, again in the fall. I took this semester off, due to moving in the middle of semester. So right now, I'm just a pretend housewife. :mad:

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I have been a stay-at-home mom for the last 5 yrs and loved most of it. :mad: Previously, I have been in sales and admin.

OT...Pattman...were you a "spook"?

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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. LeighaTR

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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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      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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