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Become the person I have always wanted to be... Healthy, happy, energetic. FUN!!

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Is to be Healthy again so I can enjoy life with my family and friends.

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Lose weight get healthy and get my life on track

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Mark Takata M.D.
My first impression of Dr. Takata was that he cared about me as a patient and about making sure I had all the information I needed before surgery. When I went to the hospital for my surgery the staff was excellent. While waiting in pre-op room I met the Anesthesiologist Dr. K and he was so nice :) as were all the nurses. Dr. Takata came in to see me right before surgery and I told him how nervous I was and he made me feel better. I didn't even know I had surgery till I woke up in my room. Dr. Takata saw me later that day and said everything went great. I also got to meet the surgeon who assisted Dr. Takata and I am sorry I can't remember his name due to the post-op meds and recovery from anesthesia, but I do remember he was very nice. All my after care is structured through Scripps Clinic Center for Weight Management , which also includes a support group meeting once a month. I am so glad that I had Dr. Takata and the whole team from Scripps Clinic Center for Weight Management to give me help and information. And I can honestly say I am happy that they will still be there for me to help. Nurse Betty and Nurse Jessica are excellent help and great patient care. I felt informed and taken care of.
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Marcia B.'s Journey

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
The emotional was harder then the behavioral. For me eating with loved ones was a way of sharing love and your day. Eating was equated with love for me so that is hard to change. The behavioral is a little tough but not as much as the emotional. The behavioral is about sticking to the plan given and then not beating yourself up when you slip. I use to give up when I slipped up and then just eat whatever, but now I enjoy the food more because it isn't equated with love, but it's like being normal. Eating because I need to physically not because it fills an emotional need.
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  • Comment by Lin_2 on 7/13/11 2:26 pm
    I hope your surgery went well! Hope you are recovering well too!
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8 Days Post-Op...
on July 21, 2011 3:11 pm
Boy oh boy have I felt like I'm on a roller coaster.  I do ok during the day but when it's night and I have time for my body to think of EVERYTHING bad or missing junk food it just tears me up.  Today I feel better and I get to start pureed food :) Yay something other than SOUP!!! lol I believe I am now lactose intolerant and I am hoping lactaid works it's magic.  I also believe I have a little acid reflux... I feel a lump in my throat occasionally, but hoping prevacid is the remedy.  Other than that I am either eating just enough or not enough depending lol I don't really know what a full feeling is, and I don't know if I have hunger pains... but I do know that I haven't gotten sick so that is just fine with me.
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Today is the 12th - tomorrow is the day!
on July 12, 2011 12:49 am
I'm scared.  I trust in my surgeon and I trust my support group telling me that this is a good idea and will help me so much.  And I trust my therapist in her saying the same thing as everyone else, but I'm really scared.  I messed up a couple times on my pre-op liquid diet and now it is like I feel that maybe I sabotaged myself out of fear.  It's a reoccurring theme of my life.  I did see my therapist and she helped me feel like I didn't sabotage myself and that I will be fine and not to let the fear take over in doing what I know is right.  But can anyone ever really make someone feel better when the fear you have is the fear of the unknown.. the fear of what if? I have never had this surgery so you go by what the people who have gone before you their information.  It all is so reassuring and I just need to pay attention to that and make my mind/feelings stop controlling my choices.  I did find out something interesting through this process, the liquid diet brought out the controlling and addict side and my therapist says I am a food addict.  I thought there was a possibility but as humans we can rationalize everything.  But when I didn't have that food for comfort I can honestly say I about lost it.  I am thankful to God that I have the therapist and husband I do and that I was given this websites address by my nutritionist because I don't think I would have made it this far without them all.  Now I need to just make it through it and out the other side. 
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8 Days to new lease on life...
on July 5, 2011 11:23 am
Eight Days till my surgery.. tomorrow is pre-op day and then Friday is first day of my liquid diet.  In my mind so far the liquid diet is what makes me really nervous I read NO food and think how am I going to make it through those 5 days. But I HAVE to.  I also cannot wrap my mind around after surgery and when I am healed how much my eating will change.  Especially since I have been with this stomach for a long time now hahahaa and always being hungry I thought there was something wrong with me.  So all I can think of is how things are going to change, and I can't wait... nervous, and happy all at the same time.
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