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Calling All MARCH '09 Bandsters - We need a name!



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Hi Shoes, our surgeon is Dr Chris de Bruyne. We've heard lots of good things about him from this site. :rose:

Who is your surgeon?

Hi guy's my surgeon is Dr Chris too,did you book direct with him:smile:

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thanks AIT, I am pretty nervous about the whole thing. I have done my homework and I have just started eating low fat, as my doc does not require liquid, but I want to shrink my liver enough so there are no compications.

I also notice I am getting very emotional lately. I have the feeling I am in for a ride...I am also excited to get this going.

I am in Astoria where are you?

My name is Laurie

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My surgeon requires two weeks of liquids pre-surgery, so I'm having a bit of a party until then. I figure this is it for the rest of my life! I am not really nervous, I only freak out when I read complications threads on here so I've been staying away.

I live in Manhattan, my name is Rochel.

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Ok I hope I remember this. Click on anyone's ticker and it will take you to the site, and you create a pin which will then let you make your own ticker. Once you have the ticker you copy the link and paste it here. To paste it you go to User CP at the top left corner and then click on Edit Signature and paste the link in.

Hope that helped.

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I'm being banded on Thursday, March 12th. Can't wait! I like March Melters too because I'm from Michigan and so sick of the snow AND the weight! Looking forward to more than snow melting in March!

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hi everyone.

i'm getting banded 3/23 (35 days !!!). i'm in ohio and i'm pretty tired of the snow too. march melters sounds like a good one.

i could use some online band friends, so i'm looking forward to this group a lot !!!

karen :rose:

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Hey everyone! I joined a few days ago and this is my first posting on this forum. I got approved for my surgery on 2/13 and so far I have a tenative surgery date for 3/18.

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Hi Miniband & Picklesix, I am in Clewiston. Not to far from you. But I am having my surgery done in Lake Worth.

Hey louandboosmom, welcome aboard . I'm half really excited and half scared to death, how about you? I really really want to succeed at this, I've failed so many times before. How far is Lake Worth from Clewiston?

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Hi Everyone,

I have been posting on a thread called 'anyone know Dr Chris De Bruyne' he is a doctor who performs the band sugery in Belgium, a lot of people like me from UK go there to have their surgery as it costs a fraction of the price if you had surgery in UK. Anyway I see you have all mastered the art of tickery! Well done, I would just like to know how a thinner me has already lost 17lbs and surgery is not scheduled until the 23/3! Well done, what have you been doing?

As you can see from my ticker I have lost no weight so far, actually I have most likely been putting it on as since I got my date for surgery 17 March I have become more obsessed with food then ever,,,eating everything in sight!

Anyway I hope to lose a little when I start my pre-op diet on the 3 March. I look forward to joining all of you 'March Melters' and lets hope the name is a good omen and we do all 'melt' away!!!

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Hi Everyone,

I have been posting on a thread called 'anyone know Dr Chris De Bruyne' he is a doctor who performs the band sugery in Belgium, a lot of people like me from UK go there to have their surgery as it costs a fraction of the price if you had surgery in UK. Anyway I see you have all mastered the art of tickery! Well done, I would just like to know how a thinner me has already lost 17lbs and surgery is not scheduled until the 23/3! Well done, what have you been doing?

As you can see from my ticker I have lost no weight so far, actually I have most likely been putting it on as since I got my date for surgery 17 March I have become more obsessed with food then ever,,,eating everything in sight!

Anyway I hope to lose a little when I start my pre-op diet on the 3 March. I look forward to joining all of you 'March Melter's' and lets hope the name is a good omen and we do all 'melt' away!!!

Hi Fatpants,welcome all march melter's i also found the thread called anyone know anything about Dr Chris de Bruyne is fab the guy's on this thread have been a great support to me sharing there journey's pre op and post op,don't worry no bad story' lots of information and support am getting banded in Belgium on 6th march,i have to follow a low fat diet starting this fri,like fat pants im eating for Ireland at the mo:tt2: look forward to every one's post

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Hi All! just came across this site and so far i love it! having the surgery on march 6th.... so excited/ nervous! its all been abit quick but i am confident that this is the right choice for me and am so happy that the ball is finally starting to roll on losing this weight!

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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
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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.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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