YIPEEEEEE, I'LL BE IN BANDLAND ON NOVEMBER 20TH:party:

Anyone joining me? Anyone as nervous, excited, scared and shocked as I am? I'm doing tons of reading on this site and I'm really trying to grasp how much my life is going to change!!!

My date is November 11. I havent been approved by insurance yet so keep your fingers crossed:)

I'm keeping them crossed for you! GOOD LUCK!!!!

Thank You so much

Got my approval today--calling tomorrow to confirm my date. I think it'll be November 13!!! Good luck to us all. I too am excited, scared and happy! Woo Hoo!!!!!

I'm scheduled for November 5th. My emotions are all over the place. I'm definitely going throught the "Last Supper" syndrome. I'm eating everthing I can get my hands on. I go to my pre-op on Oct 27th. BANDING IN NOVEMBER!!!!!!!

November 12th here. I am so excited/nervous I could just....

This emotional rollercoaster has got to settle down. I am reading everything I can get my hands on and still I feel like I need/want more info, more testimonies, more ideas of how to avoid problems. I wonder if I will ever feel ready and at peace?

Yeah! I'm going to be banded on Nov. 19th. I'm not so much scared of the surgery. But I'm more scared of either failing again or being one of the people who just has problem after problem after problem.

My surgery date is Nov 19th also, I am excited and looking forward to it, I am trying to be positive and look to the future, the outcome will be worth the effort it will take to get there, be strong, be kind and win, win, win....no long term goals here, each 10 lbs will be a major accomplishment and I will look in the mirror and smile at the person I look at and say..."see, I told you we could do it" LOL :tongue::tongue:

Wow Pink, you've got a great attitude. I needed that right now. I'm riding an emotional rollercoaster, but reading your post made me feel much better and I can do this. Look to the future. THANKS, Pink

I like your outlook too, Pink. I'm just looking forward to the day I can look in the mirror again... :tongue:

I agree, great attitude Pink! I've had such a mix bag of emotions since I've decided to do this. I sometimes feel like you, Pink, and think how wonderful things will be this time next year. I'm going on a Disney cruise with my family in September and all I can think about is, maybe I can actually enjoy this vacation without being MISERABLE! I won't be carrying around all this extra weight, I will feel so much better about myself! Then, there is the other side of me that relates so much to No Shrinking Violet...I'm on this site all the time reading and trying to get as much info as I possible can and yet I feel like I still haven't even touched the surface on what my future is actually going to be like! I need more info, have lots of questions and want to try and avoid all the things I read that terrify me about this surgery....I know everyone is different and we all won't experience the same things, but there are lots of similar problems that people have that just terrify me and I want to do everything I can to avoid that situation! Is that even possible:mellow:

I'm sure everyone goes through similar feelings at some point prior to surgery. Its just great to have this forum so that we can all come here and discuss whatever is on our mind, good or bad!

I wish good luck to ALL of us!!! I hope we can all keep in touch!!!

:thumbup:I have my initial consultation on Monday and plan to be banded just before Thanksgiving. My emotions are all over the freaking place too...scared (I have never had any kind of surgery before), excited, hopeful, terrified, trepidatious, ecstatic....

Looking forward to keeping in touch!

My emotions are all over the place too, but I've gotta tell ya -- I'm more scared of living one more year at this size or bigger than I am about a procedure that sounds, for all intents and purposes, like a breeze. I've already lost my gall bladder due to my weight, and that was worse than natural childbirth times 10.

I'm scheduled for Nov 6th. Yeah!!

I go Monday for tests all day, so hopefully that all goes well!

I'm also very nervous---but I'm so excited. I just want to get it done now!

I'm not going through the "eating my last supper" though--I'm kind of the opposite. I've been eating better this week since I got the approval. Seems like if I start now, it'll be easier once I start the liquid diet.

Does everyone do the 2 wk liquid diet here then? (before surgery)

By the way...anyone else in Iowa?

There will be a two week Medifast diet prior to surgery. I have done the "last supper" thinking some, but am finding with each passing day that turning away from bad options is getting easier, or just eating a small amount and walking away rather than stuffing as much as I can. Not sure if it is nerves, the psychological knowledge that I have a tool to help me coming up or what. But I am glad for it. I was of normal weight (high end of normal) as a teen and young woman, but its been over 15 years now since I have been at a normal weight. I am almost scared when I try to imagine what that would feel like again.