just finished my 6 of 6 visit in kind of a funk

I just finished my last Dr visit today it was the same, I had lost some more weight a total of about 45 since I started my new PCP in April of this year... I just feel like I'm kinda in a little funk I haven't really been sticking to my diet luckily I didn't gain anything, I just got off my diet pull phentermine a couple of weeks ago I had a script since april maybe that has something to do with it...  I quit smoking smoking in April beside the rare drag every few months at the bar... I have able to watch my portions pretty good since I start exercise has been a struggle recently.. don't get me wrong i am pretty excited but I'm not as excited as I thought I would be I'm so ready for this tool to help me get through the barrier of weight I've head in front of me for my whole... ready for the spring I should be down alot by then... Surgery the 22nd of Nov... Submitting to insurance this week then pre op diet class tomorrow afternoon within hopefully two weeks I will have my approval then date set in stone maybe thats what I have been waiting for.... just ready to get this party started and trying to avoid the food funerals and drinking binges.. only on the weekends....   

Lol, you sound like me. I feel like these past 3mon have been dragging, but with my surgery being 6days away... I'm scared ****less hahaha

Good Luck with everything! You can do it. I was pretty horrible at a pre-op diet. I guess I let the thoughts of not being able to eat cause me to have many a food funeral! I haven't been a big drinker the last couple years so that wasn't an issue, but it's funny how I crave wine or my old jack and coke every once in a while (usually weekends) after having surgery. Looking back I know that I would have been further along had I stuck to my pre-op diet better, but at the same time I don't have any regrets. I got all those "last" meals in so I can't complain now. :)  I would just say try your best and allow yourself a LITTLE wiggle room so you don't fall off the wagon and binge. It's hard now but SO much easier once you have this amazing tool.

I understand completely - it's like doing the hard stuff with the tool to help!! Going off of Phentermine can make you somewhat moody about things in general too, done that plenty of times over the years!! Now that I have a date I'm getting nervous - in the pit of my stomach so I've decided M&M's really help - not a good thing but certainly short lived!!! I've stopped drinking soda and have started chewing a lot . . . think positive and hang in there, we in the boat together as my date is November 30.

Wendy

Hang in there.. it wil be here before you know it and things will awesome. Best of luck to you..its hard and having the tool doesnt make it all peaches and cream.Its alot of hard work.But you have already been working hard so it will be a breeze;)

I never allowed myself to have a 'food funeral' because A) I knew with VSG I wouldn't have to truly deny myself any food in the future and B) did I really,truly, LOVE stuffing my face to oblivion with bad **** NO! I felt like crap!! So why the hell did I want to have a funeral???

When I started my preop it flowed smoothly right into my surgery date so there was  no going back or trying to maintain it. That had to have helped emotionally and physically. I had already changed my food lifestyle so when I had surgery, and allowed to actually eat after 2 weeks of liquids and mushies, I was a little afraid to! I had sailed right through those two weeks--albeit not always 'satisfied' in my brain but certainly not physically hungry.

I still, at 26ish months out, still don't have much true hunger, but the 'knowing' I have to get some protein in kinda makes you think you're hungry. Sometimes even when you aren't. I used to have days in my past just about every week where I'd get physically shaky and weak and these days that's only happened a couple times a year.

Could it be that it's because I drink more water, or because I load up on proteins? Or both? Or that food just sticks with me longer BECAUSE it's dense protein instead of crap? Sure!! My body isn't constantly trying to balance itself and blood sugar etc. All I know is I'm more aware of my body now in a way I never, ever was before. I try to listen every time. ;-)