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Topic: RE: August 3rd!
I also had surgery on August 3rd and think that i am doing well, but I am not getting in enough protein or water. The thought of eating what I can eat makes me nausea but then I see a bacon cheeseburger or smell a friends lunch and think I would love to eat that. The good news is I know I can't eat it so I dismiss the thought quickly.
I feel like I am eating and drinking all day, but I never feel full. I hope my pouch is not too big already! I can am eating 4 oz. of cottage cheese with no problem. I haven't tried to eat more than 1/2 cup.
I feel like I am eating and drinking all day, but I never feel full. I hope my pouch is not too big already! I can am eating 4 oz. of cottage cheese with no problem. I haven't tried to eat more than 1/2 cup.
Topic: RE: August 17, 2009
Thank you for the best wishes same to you, yes I will see on the other side on the losers bench.
Topic: RE: checking in
Hi!! I am wishing you good luck. Just keep at it. This will work out. August 31st is going to be here before you know it.
Mona
Mona
Topic: RE: August 17, 2009
Yessss 5 more days till we get on the loser bench
Best wishes I see you on the other side
Best wishes I see you on the other side Topic: RE: August 17, 2009
Thats great! I am not nervous either, 5 more days! wooo hooo
The house is coming along slowly:) 
Topic: checking in
Hey guys Im getting excited again,,,this will be my 3rd attempt so Im excited and nervous at the same time. I dont want anything to stand in my way!!! Aug 31st seems so far and yet so close too!! Thanks for all of your really really good tips here...
Topic: RE: Tomorrow is the day!
Jen what a great husband you have. I love what he has instilled in you. Today is your date. I am praying for you and please respond and tell me how everything went. Lets do this...................
Topic: RE: August 17, 2009
Hi Leah I noticed ur from the metro detroit area. Congratulations on your surgery date. I will get mines today once the doctor reviews my chart. Add me as your friend so we can keep up with one another.
Topic: RE: Help! Need to lose 7lbs b4 2 weeks pre-op
I understand how you feel. I had to lose 10 lbs and I did it and once I lost the first 12 my doc. said I had to lose an additional 10 more to have the surgery I really wanted. So I used the Leslie sandsones walking tape. She does a mile in about 15 min. and it is a power walk dvd with the three mile work out. you can modify how many miles you want to walk. I weighed in on a Friday and by that tuesday I had loss 7lbs with the liquid meal substitutes. Good luck on your surgery I will get my surgery date today when the doctor reviews my charts and I lost 19 pounds with that walking tape in a month.
Topic: RE: different pre-diet
It sounds like my plan as well. I am to add unflavored protein powder to food and soups. Soups are my initial food on the liquid diet. Eventually I can stop doing that as I can eat more and get all the protein needed without additional help from protein powders.
They also arent really big on counting my calories as much as focused on nutrition and protein intake. I am to count protein and my new way of eating will mean eating 6 times per day.
I am in Sweden so I think there is some difference between european ways of doing this than US ways. They dont even sell all those protein powders around here. If I wanted to do them I would have to order them from the states because here there isnt a huge selection and you only have your basic body building ones and the one I will need that they sell at the pharmacy for people with medical issues and need added protein. Its unflavored. There is a part of me that wants to order them for emergency in case I cant get the soup down in the initial phase but I dont do fake sugars so....I cant do them anyway.
So far no one has mentioned a pre-op diet but I do have to attend a group meeting with the nurse on the 19th for my surgery on the 31st so possibly they will give me one to follow.
They also arent really big on counting my calories as much as focused on nutrition and protein intake. I am to count protein and my new way of eating will mean eating 6 times per day.
I am in Sweden so I think there is some difference between european ways of doing this than US ways. They dont even sell all those protein powders around here. If I wanted to do them I would have to order them from the states because here there isnt a huge selection and you only have your basic body building ones and the one I will need that they sell at the pharmacy for people with medical issues and need added protein. Its unflavored. There is a part of me that wants to order them for emergency in case I cant get the soup down in the initial phase but I dont do fake sugars so....I cant do them anyway.
So far no one has mentioned a pre-op diet but I do have to attend a group meeting with the nurse on the 19th for my surgery on the 31st so possibly they will give me one to follow.
'would rather get gunned down than dumbed down...K'naan
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