Hi Everyone!

I am 19 days from my surgery date. I will be seeing my dr. on Thursday to start my 2 weeks liquid diet. I was lucky that I did NOT have to do the maintenance diet with my PCP.

Since I know my surgery date is coming up and in less than 1 week I will be on liquids, I am on a total eating frenzy. I have been eating anything and everything I want. There have always been things that were completely off limits in my life...like big macs but I have had 2 in the past week.

Did anyone else experience this time of freedom before the journey starts?

Yes... it's called the "Last Supper Syndrome"

My surgery date is oct 14, I start liquids a week before that, I have been eating like crazy and it is almost making me sick. I feel like all those times when I was going to start another diet on Monday so I ate like crazy the week before. I guess my bmi will be really high by the time my banding gets here.

During the 3 weeks from my first call to my surgeon's office until the day before my surgery, I ate anything and everything that didn't eat me first. I didn't eat too much of anything, but I didn't deny myself any food that I wanted. My last meal was the buffet at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi!

Tracy,

I understand your need to want to eat the things you wont be able to once banded or on your liquid diet, but I would recommend starting to scale back .. it will make the transition in to the liquid diet a lot easier.. I will be banded on Wednesday and I only had to do a two week liquid diet, but I started learning the proper way to eat about a month 6 weeks before. I started off with a Protein shake for Breakfast and then had whatever I wanted for lunch.. then a two weeks later I went to a Protein Shake for breakfast and lunch and whatever I wanted for dinner and now I am of course on the liquid diet which started about a week and a half ago and will continue until wednesday when I have surgery.. I wish you the best in your journey.. I just hope you can find away to make it easier for yourself..

this journey takes a lot of learning and i would just simply suggest try to start learning sooner it will make later much more tolerable.. Good luck and enjoy your pre op time as you will see a bit of a weight loss if you do it right and it will give you more motivation to continue on full force.. take care

You're totally normal. Most people go through this.

just be carefull. I got my surgery date august 8th, we set it for october 2nd, in that time i had to lose 30 pounds. I am seriously addicted to food. Anyway, i spent this period doing the be good for two days thing, fall off the wagon because "well, I still have a lot of time left." so eating whatever i wanted. I would always tell myself, this is the last time, sh&*, I've been telling myself that for the last ten years.

I finally weighed myself the day after my preop phone consult, tradition scales do not weigh me. I had to order one and have it overnighted. I had only lost ten pounds. I had to call my doctors preop nurse back on friday and tell here I had only lost 10 pounds. She told me that my dr office is really being sticklers about the weight loss thing and 30 pounds means 30 pounds.

So if I don't lose twenty pound by the second I will be canceled.

I weighed friday at about 5 in the morning, and again saturday at 3 in the afternoon and had lost 5 pounds so far. So, I may make it.

I guess my whole point is, for me anyway, the one last time, or one last week to eat how i wanted to didn't work, because the way I am now, it's never one last time. Just make sure you lose the weight you need to in time, so you don't have to do what I'm doing, aka 500-600 calories a day, it is rough. Espically since I know if I do make my surgery date I will never get to have one of thoes binging days again, ever. And they are about my favorite thing in the world.

So I am really depressed right now, seems like my best friend just moved away, i hope it gets easier, the whole not being able to eat the way I used to thing. I just love food. As my consult weight of 505 pounds would attest to.

Anyway, I had a succient point at first, sorry for all the rambling crap.

hope everyone is doing well.

brian

What you are going through is very normal. Most band patients do this. You really want to let that thinking go as soon as possible. You aren't giving up food forever. You will eat again. If you continue to eat this way, it will make it even more difficult to start your liquid diet when it is time. Also, depending on your doctor, you have to weigh at the very least what you did at the original consult. Some really prefer that you lose a certain amount of weight to show your comittment to your new lifestyle. I wish you the best. Just remember, you will eat again, just less.

Edited September 29, 200817 yr by *slim*
fix spelling...sorry

I had the "last meals" (Hello In N' Out!), and I am so jealous that you're eating all that right now! (but remember, you just have to lose that much more later).

Yes, I ate what I wanted the last few weeks before surgery and I loved it. Now, six months out of surgery, I'm glad I did it. (Don't go unhealthfully overboard, though!!!)

tracy, I was so HAPPY to read your post, I sure could use some wisdom from you.... pre and post if you wouldn't mind sharing. I will not be banded until jan 2009. The insurance requirements will be done in December, but I'm not sure I want to spend the Holidays dealing with all my changes when it's about family time. New Year, New Changes.... Hope to hear from you. Pidgekk

I still have 2 appts with my nutritionist before they will do my surgery. I have to lose 20 lbs and I don't think that I can do it. I hope to have my surgery by Christmas I have 120 lbs to lose.

Yes you can do it, think about the long term Vizulization (spell?) girl, close your eyes, see it, believe it, pray for it. Hell nothing else has worked before this... I have a black dress hanging on the outside of my closet door in my bathroom, I have to see it each and everyday. Some days I give more thought to it than others, but everyday I know its their. Every day it is a reminder of I want to be.... Not skinny, not 18 all over again, just alive again and owning my life.....

YOU CAN DO THIS...... My situation is a bit diffrent, I am having to stay within a 16 # range or my insurance will deny me. My current BMI is 37.9 but I have health issues that qualifies me with my insurance. I'm just tired of being tired, and I'm mostly tired of being miserable because I am miserable.... Know what I mean? I am blessed by my husband of 27 years and my two sons, but for so long life was about them.. I need it to be about me for the moment. I want to look in the mirror and be proud to know the women looking back at me.....

Best of Luck, please keep in touch when you can..