Congrats on your date, Ruthann! I'm a day behind you. My surgeon's office had a bari-bootcamp also! They went over the entire surgical process from when you check into the hospital to when you leave. They also talked about the diet progression in detail as well as vitamins and fluids- of course protein was stressed! THEN we met with the exercise physiologist (they have a gym at the center) and went through core training exercises for an hour- what a sight that must have been! Imagine a group of out-of-shape, morbidly obese people in an exercise class, using those big exercise balls...

Anyways, good luck with your surgery- We are looking forward to hearing how you're doing.

for January to get here so that our January forum members can start sharing their experiences with surgery and the early post-op days! It's neat that we'll all be going through the same things together!

Kudos to you for sticking to the liquids over Christmas- that must have been really hard! Luckily, my surgeon doesn't require a liquid diet, although I am going to do it for 3-4 days before surgery anyways. I'm feeling the same way as you are- the emotions are all over the place! Just stay focused on the end result!  Good Luck!

Thank you jaimed123

Please add me mine is jan 26th 2009
than you