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i am afraid for when PM****s with the preop diet, i need to check into a hotel..lol

i am excited for the weight loss, just not the surgery itself..lol  the enthusiam will help to carry you through pre-op diet for sure!

She has her RNy today oct 11.  best wishes to you and please let us know how you are doing!

here is a copy of my blog post about this issue,  that time is bad for me too.  kid in bed, time to "treat" myself.  boredom, need i say more.  for me though, i would picture a steak before a cookie,  leftovers aka second dinner is my problem.

""feeling pretty good, there was definately a rough few days to start, head hunger is the worst, i am glad i am doing it because i feel like i am learning a bit about myself now instead of later when i have other things like protein to worry about.  seeing a commercial or food or smelling things gives me the most intense "tastes" in  my mouth and i have to get distracted or drink something.,  i never paid attention to how many social cues there are that make you eat. in the past i would have picked up something and eaten it, definately something to watch out for.  also had alot of impulses where i started to get up or pick up food that i never noticed before, even on the low carb diet i would have grabbed a "healthy" snack.  it makes me wonder now, how much of it i really "needed".

one thing i have found is that after day 6 constipation became and issue.  2 days and now i am finally taking some benefiber and hoping for the best, i didnt weigh myself today because i feel like a stuffed turkey!

the nausea has gone away, sadly i think that the sugar free syrups were doing it. i am back to regular milk at the moment, straight no chaser.""

Hello all!
I had surgery on 10/3/11 and wish I would have found the group before tonight. It would have been great to suffer the pre op diet with others to cheer me on. It got so I was so preoccupied with what I was eating , drinking, thinking , and preparing for I was definitely very obsessed. I guess I had to be to stay on track. I just don't want my life to become about the weight loss and not about living. I have so many ideas and dreams about how this surgery will change my life. I'm super exited to share this journey with all of you who walk the same path.

Update: the basic facts here. Not for the squeamish!!! jK. Today is day 7 and feeling tired and sore. I had post op trouble with low blood pressure, low oxygen saturation, chest pains, urinary tract infection, and stupid anxiety. Every night I had anxiety, maybe symptom of o2 Sats or pain but first couple of nights in hospital were rocky but survivable. Kind of like childbirth, you forget as time goes by. I am RN at hospital I had surgery so I had LOTS of visitors. Actually great support and had my back all week. To sum it all up , I was scared while in hospital and feel much better at home. Pain and purée diet tolerable. That nasty head hunger is rearing it's head and already craving pizza almost embarrassed to say that, but like I said, just the facts here. I will not judge myself anymore. That's how I got here to begin with.

I look forward to learning along with all of you. I am super excited for the upcoming months. I have a coworker who had VSG in July and it is awesome to watch where she is going, and anticipating reaching the same milestones