I am only 2 days into mine.  Use your protein shake first, and slowly drink it. Then your nice warm cream soup. That will make you feel like you gorged on something. Then dismiss food from your mind and go scrapbook, dust, take a walk, do something to concentrate on. Oh, the fatfree, sugar free Jello chocolate pudding is to die for! Have that a time or 2 a day. Have SF gelatin Jello anytime you want. Remember, you are getting ready for surgery so you need to practice your 64 oz. of liquids and eat with no drinks for 30 minutes before and after your meals. Think, does that ____ food  taste better than it looks on my butt? Let's keep it together, and band together!! You can do it!!!

Hi everyone....I am new to this message board.  I have a surgery for a realize band scheduled for August 11th.  I am currently trying to lose at least my 5%. I just started my 6 weeks of weight loss recently. They have me doing lean and green to lose my weight. I am really having a hard time.  Any suggestions?  I have to start losing weight or they will cancel my surgery. 

  Good Friday Morning Everyone,

Hope everyone has had a wonderful week and are all ready for the weekend.   This weekend my 25 yr. old son that we adopted from birth is going to meet his biological mother.    He has been thinking about this for sometime now and decided that is something he really wanted to do to get some answers to some issues he has had since a teenager.    I did some work yesterday and located her and spoke with her on the phone.   I am calling her tomorrow to set up a meeting.    Praying really had that goes well and he gets some much needed answers so he can get closure and move on with his life.    Well....enough of that now.    That has been on my mind for days....praying that I am making a wise decision and not opening a can or worms so to speak.    As we ALL know this is a grateful post.   A post for us to voice what we are grateful for in our lives....no matter how large or how small.    We ALL have so very much in our lives to be grateful for.    Today I am so grateful that even though things didn't look at first yesterday that I would be able to find his biological mom.....it did finally happen.    Grateful for my Faith and answered prayers.    Grateful for my WLS, all the choices for different WLS, my life and health, my husband and 3 sons, God's blessings of another day for me to live my life and make better choices with foods and whatever comes my way.    Grateful for my 2 adopted sons and my 1 biological son.    Grateful for Obesity Help and all the different message boards and for the upcoming OH Conference in New Orleans, La.    Sept 9-10.    Hope you make it to the conference.   It will be awesome.   Use my promo code below for a huge discount.  PLEASE share with us what you are grateful for today if you will.    We would love to hear it.     Have a blessed day !!

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

the3bubbasmom,

 

I hope I can convey properly what I am about to write. I don’t want it to read incorrectly or appear har****'s not meant to be.

 

Would eating a piece of chicken breast hurt your surgery? Probably not. However, you need stop and realize during this journey you will be required to adhere to certain guidelines in order to be successful. If you start your journey by taking detours early, what going to happen later on down the road?

 

I won’t say you should or shouldn’t, but what you need to ask yourself is “is it really worth it". And if so, will you be able to control yourself later? Only you know you, and how well you can control this.

 

Does liquids suck, YES!! But in the scheme of things, this is such a short period on this long road to success.

Good luck, and know we’re here for you.

 

Is there any way to search the members for people in my area? JUst wondering...I am new and still learning how to navigate the boards. Wondering if any others on may be in my state? I'm scheduled for surgery July 15th and hoping to find others closeby with same Dr, surgery dates, etc...