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Hi Amber, So you will be two weeks ahead of me. I wish you the best and hope you will post here with your experiences. I see the site automatically included me in a sub-forum with people whose dates fall in the same month so I'm guessing you are in there too. It will be nice to have a bunch of us at roughly the same stage to compare notes with, in addition to all the other forums here. I'm a little anxious too, but the scenario that keeps running through my mind is a little different - I keep worrying about oversleeping the day of surgery! :sleep: They want me in there at 6am and it's not just a wake-up-and-drive-over thing - gotta scrub up the night before and morning of. Shoot, the only time I ever see 6am is usually when I've taken a red-eye flight home. If I didn't already know I am going to get to sleep through it, I'd back out! Well, I hope you get through the next 30 days without too much worry. It may seem surreal but I know you are not dreaming because we can't both be having the same dream! Here's a virtual pinch....>pinch< See? Wide awake! Good luck to you too, and I hope to see you around the forums here. -- T.Rob

Hi T.Rob and Amber and everyone else! I am with Dr. Pirrello (Dr. Bauman's associate) and love everything about the office! Just waiting to get a surgery date now! T.Rob, I followed the same path in terms of dieting. I chose many years ago to stop worrying about it. I ended up settling out at ~400. I'm at 362.2 now (on a 45 lb loss program to prep for surgery) and am so excited about being on the losers' bench with all of you! I truly think that the time I spent refusing to diet helped me stop feeling like bad kid when I "cheated." I have a more reasonable approach to food now, and that helps a ton (pun intended ) Take care, and keep us updated on your progess. Remember that your virtual community is always available when traveling! (I have found these folks to be a Godsend!) Robin

Thanks for the reply, Robin! I hope you get your date soon. I finally found out how to update my profile and start my blog so I'll be posting there and on the boards. Nice to hear someone else had that same experience. It's not something most of my family or friends can fully understand. I saw a documentary on PBS the other night and one of the things that struck me was an explanation given for what happens when the subconscious mind decides it needs to store energy or up your weight set point. He compared it to running up several flights of stairs and then trying to breathe normally. You might do it for a few seconds but there's no way to suppress it when the body signals a need for oxygen. There are forces at work here beyond mere "will power". With that explamation I finally have a way to tell people that they have a chance of actually understanding what it's like. -- T.Rob