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i just want to take a to everyone on this site, i have been coming here for about a year when i first started researching WLS and its the reason i decided on this surgery, its where i found my surgeon, and its where i find most of the answers to all my questions. i have yet to post a profile im waitin to see if i make it out of surgery Im having surgery November 8th and i really cant say anything else in life has ever scared me this bad. im petrified and terrified and all that good stuff. im hoping im not the only one who is this scared before the big day. ive been having second thoughts only becuase of the jitters i know i went through all this for a reason so im not backing out, i just wanted to know if its normal to feel this way and what should i expect? is it the worst pain ill ever go through in life? hope to hear from you soon~~~~~ gina

Hi Gina First thing I want you to do is: TAKE A NICE DEEP BREATH! LET IT OUT....AND NOW ANOTHER ONE! Second: Your fears are all perfectly normal. You are human, we all fear the unknown. I can tell you this, now that I have lost 35 lbs and am feeling good I know this was the best thing I have done for myself. I have kept only two New Year's Resolutions in my lifetime. The first one was to quit smoking and I did that 17 years ago on New Year's Eve cold turkey and the other I can proudly say was to lose weight this year. I made this promise to myself many times many years. This year I kept that resolution to myself. You will do fine. The pain is not that bad. Nothing a few tylenol can't cure. I was in more pain from my hysterectomy than WLS. Try not to let your fear over power yourself because after all is said and done you WILL be saying to yourself, "why did I worry so much?" The worse part out of all this is working your way back up to regular HUMAN FOOD. I am still on puree and am soooooo bored. Every new step is a challenge but a challenge we chose to take and a challenge we chose to do for better health and quality of life for ourselves. Good Luck---Keeping you in my prayers! Marianne

Hi Gina, I have to say I know I was was doing great not worried about anything and then BAM! right out of no where a week before the surgery I was freaking out, nervous, jittery and guess what it was all for nothing so it really is normal to feel the way you are feeling. May you have an uncompicated surgery ansd a speedy recovery. Please keep us posted on how everything is going and how things went we are always here for you....... ok. Evelyn {{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}} 247/160/147

Thank you so much for the encouragment and kind words! it actually brought tears to my eyes that people responded at all! i think im just going to take it easy this week and try not to think about it as much, becuase its really out of my control i wont know if its going to be not that painful or very painful until i get it next monday. another question i have is my doctors make it 'seem' like everything has to be NO SUGAR, i find that impossible to buy anything without any sugar except drinks and jello. one cereal on my nutritionist's list is called 'go lean' by ka****hat has 36 grams of carbs and 13 grams of sugar. isnt that TOO much? i have a book called ''exodus from obesity'' and the woman in that book says most people dump on 18 grams of sugar or more, does this seem acurate??? P.S. the serving size for the 'go lean' cereal is for 1 cup. i will probably only have 1/2 cup- does that make a difference?

Gina Right now you are jumping the gun....to start you will be on a liquid diet for about 7 days, full liquid another 7 days, puree for about 4 weeks, and then soft foods. As you can see it will be quite some time before you have to worry about the Kashi cereal. I am 6 weeks out this coming Tuesday and I am still on soft cereals---oatmeal, farina. Why don't you ask your Nutritionist this question of concern because I really cannot answer this sugar question. If you find out let me know ok? Marianne

marieanne, your absolutely right. my nerves are truly getting the best of me and im worrying about things that are so far off that im getting upset over nothing at this point. you seem to be doing really good, i wish you the best of luck!! thanks again foryour quick responses ~~gina