Here we are...

        This is our Bypass surgery group for September, so far. Anyone else??   16 and counting!!  

Gavs50 Sept. 1^st

Tempestt Sept. 7^th

JSP0408 Sept. 7^th

Insert Fitness Sept. 8^th

PatR (Patty) Sept. 8^th

Cjonorcas (Cheryl) Sept. 9^th

Lovely_Caprice Sept. 9^th

Karen9849 (Karen) Sept. 14^th

Steven354 Sept. 14th

annemck Sept. 14th

Novella Sept. 16^th

Conazza Sept. 23^rd

Kendyl Sept. 28^th

Dagosson (Desiree) Sept. 28^th

Jseemann16 (Jodi) Sept. 29^th

Krkyjn ^{Sept. 29th}

^{Edited to add "proper" names  and MORE newbies !!!      Phew, trying to keep up!!}

Thank you Pat for putting that together.  I think we are going to be life long friends.  Yay September 2016

The beginning of our new lives...

It's so soon and so far!  I'm on Day 7 of liquids. I thought the worst was over, but just went back to work this week (teacher) and it was a crazy day and I was so hungry by the time I left work. I came home and had my Ensure and my yogurt and feel much better.  I hope tomorrow is a better day with the students actually there instead of just professional development.  Friday is my pre-admission clinic and last surgery class.  Long weekend, one more day of work and SURGERY!!  

How's everyone else feeling about this?

Hang in there Tempest.  You can do this girl!

Thank you!  I haven't reached for wine or Baileys yet.  LOL

I've started week 2 of 3 on liquids. I went and got several flavoured teas and sugar free Torani syrups. Apple cinnamon herbal tea tastes "thick" and is making me feel satisfied, as best as I can imagine it to be. I have been tempted many many times and surprise myself of the will I have. I'm hoping that this will get easier after the surgery.

Yes, I'm almost at the end of my 2 weeks, day 11.  I'm not finding it half bad, even passed up all of the samples at Costco today.   I met a guy in my pre-surgery class on Friday who has been on Opti-fast since April!  I don't know if my will power is that strong!

Excited, terrified, ready and fighting the last-meal woes.  On a 3-week very low cal diet and it is preparing me for the road ahead but my mind really wants everything it knows will be off limits.  So far so good but it is certainly a struggle.  I also am at a school, we started last week.  Lot of hustle, bustle and panic with kids starting!

Isn't that the truth.  I'm in Canada, we start a week or so behind y'all.  My American nieces and nephews all started last Monday, my kids start tomorrow.  I think when the kids are there it will be simpler.  Going into my 19th year!  Hard to believe!  I had a few last suppers, but since I started the liquid diet I have been on the straight and narrow.  I have even lost 8.2 lbs.! I guess there has to be some benefit.  

Hang in there!

Cjonorcas ... Also known as Cheryl