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shock my friends and family back home!

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lose 100 lbs

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  • Comment by michelle.z on 11/7/11 3:43 am
    Good luck to you today! I'm having an RNY also today. This is a wonderful day for us! Hugs and Prayers, Michelle
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Total Dorkdom Day 2
on October 13, 2011 1:36 pm
Haha! I'm such a dork.

I'm keeping track of everything I eat for my 1200 calorie day, which they are going to check next week, right?
 
Do I REALLY write down, four double-finger dips into a carton of Papa Murphy's chocolate chip cookie dough, and two semi-spoonfulls of cool-whip/chocolate cake mixture. Because that's REALLY all I've had today. Wait!! No, I did have some Cream of Wheat this morning, all my vitamins and so far 5 1/2 cups of water. If I DO write it down, how do I record the how much/how many calories/carbs/blah blahs. Should I just put a huge frowny face in that part?

 Perhaps I should just feed this page to my dog.  He, unlike me, seems to eat whatever he likes and never gains an ounce.
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Day 2 1200 cal day
on October 13, 2011 8:59 am
Well, I'm doing much better from my Tuesday wack-o freak-out after getting all the info from my bariatric center. I think it was the fact that I had some caffeine, bad food choices, and just at a bad mental place.

I've been reading my giant bariatric bible, highliting, marking, and writing out all my questions. I'm much more calm, but I try to think of the entire process instead of the single 'surgery day'. Seems to help a little.

Day 2 on 1200 calories a day. Yesterday I wasn't able to get all my veggies in, and only got in 1100 cal.  Lately, I just haven't been interested in eating. That's a good thing, I guess. I could see where that will really cause a problem post-surgery, though.  I probably should have just done the opti-fast until surgery, but I wasn't ready to drop my food cold turkey (see, everything relates to food). So, I thought I would just do 10 days of 1200, then the rest on opti-fast until the 6th of Nov.

I just realized that Fall is the perfect time to have this surgery. As the trees are shedding their leaves and getting ready through this winter for a new birth in spring, so  am I.
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Preperation-What do I need?
on October 8, 2011 2:39 pm
So, I'm trying to write down a list of questions, things to buy, and things to do in the next 4 weeks before my surgery, and I'm coming up with very few things. I'm hoping that people will help me out and give me some hints. This is what I have so far:

Questions for the Dr.:

I've heard the chances of having gallbladder problems after surgery are HUGE and that some surgeons go ahead and remove the gallbladder at the time of the RNY- do you/what are your thoughts? Does my history of having chronic kidney stones have any bearing on that?


Things to buy:

Single blender (magic bullet?)
Lots of sugar free: popsicles, jell-o, pudding, chx broth, beef broth
Listerine strips/other breath fresheners (sugar-free)


Brint to hospital:

Pillow to hug for on the way home
chapstick


So, I would LOVE it if people would add to my list here. I'm sure it will grow by leaps and bounds as I go back through the forums and such. 

Love you all and so happy to have found my peeps!!!

Tanya
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