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:eek: Hello- I'm excited next week Thursday is my banding. My boys are 8, 6 and 4. They go none stop-you would think that I would be as thin as a pencil. I was never able to loose the weight after having the kids and working full-time. So here goes nothing! :P--

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Good luck on your upcoming surgery. I'm sure you will do fine, and you will soon have sooo much more energy to keep up with them. I am from East Tawas. Where are you having your surgery at? I'm going through Hurley, still waiting on a date. Only a couple weeks till I'm done with my 6 month diet.

You will do great!

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:oHello- I'm excited next week Thursday is my banding. My boys are 8, 6 and 4. They go none stop-you would think that I would be as thin as a pencil. I was never able to loose the weight after having the kids and working full-time. So here goes nothing! :P--

Hey Dawn!!! Good to see you posting. I'm excited for you and will be thinking of you on the 28th!! See you at the next support group meeting on the 20th! You'll be thinner then! :eek::biggrin:

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Hi all you Michiganders....i live in the u.p. not to many of us ppl from michigan on here. I am having my surgery next month dont have exact date yet. Good luck to you all

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Hi Dawn ~ I haven't been on here in a while, but I thought I'd check on everyone tonight. Good luck on the 28th :) You'll be so happy you made this decision.

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Dawn.. great to see you at the support group meeting!! You look wonderful!! I was pleased with the turnout at the meeting. See you pounds lighter in October. We're off to Port Huron today for a fill. Got to get these last 25# off!!!

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Karla- I figured out how to rely! You look great - my goal weight is 160 too! Keep up the good work - I will have to start my picute book too! See you next month! Dawn

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:girl_hug: Hello- I'm excited next week Thursday is my banding. My boys are 8, 6 and 4. They go none stop-you would think that I would be as thin as a pencil. I was never able to loose the weight after having the kids and working full-time. So here goes nothing! :rolleyes2:--

Congrats on thurs, and good luck! I also have 3 boys, ages 16,18 and 20 next month. I doesn't seem possible. Seems like yesterday they were an infant, 2 and 4. Goes by so quickly. I'm getting banded 9/29, 1 week from today. I'm getting so excited/anxious I can hardly stand it. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up better with the hiking, snowboarding, etc and just feel better all around. :girl_hug:

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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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    • 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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