Re: Digest Number 1583

[Guest guest]

I hear a lot of you talking about being scared before surgery, but does

everyone have second thoughts? I'm 13 days away from a new life and every day I

think I may be doing the wrong thing to myself. Any input?

~Mandy

[Guest guest]

the one thing that is not in question, Mandy, is this ...... eating to the

point of MO .. IS doing the wrong thing for yourself.

If you are of the mind that you can get this eating glitch under control

without surgery ...by all means, I say go for it.

However, if like myself and many others, you have exhausted yourself with

one diet after another diet after another diet after another diet .... and

failed. The picture then becomes crystalline clear.

Some of us here on the board have spent two-thirds of our life time stuck in

a cycle of traditional dieting ... losing the weight, only to gain it back

plus a few lbs

.....henece, our resolve to stop the cycle.

Follow your heart Mandy ...but too .. which ever way you choose.... never,

never, never, give up. This, ....is where our new pouches help us daily.

They helps us to stay in the ring and continue the fight against obesity every

day.. Not for a week, Mandy, not for six months .. .. but every day for the

rest of our lives.

hope this helps to ease those jitters

hugs from Mandy in CA

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[Guest guest]

Mandy,

I had my surgery a week ago and will tell you that the day before the

surgery I was hit with such a feeling a panic and really wondered if I was

doing the right thing. Mainly it seemed to surround the idea (especially

becasue I was on liquids at that point) that I would never be able to " eat "

again in that good old comforting way. I mentally snapped myself around and

visualized what my results were going to be, all the things I was going to

be able to do that I haven't been doing. It's way beyond the fact that

we'll look great, to the fact that we will be so healthy, and food will no

longer be relied on to fill a void or to bring comfort. Food will be there

for what it's truly intended for, to give us the nourishment we need to

physically survive. I have had no complications thus far and am healing at

a rapid pace. My surgery was open and the biggest pain I have right now is

dealing with the two drains that are hanging around. I can't wait to have

those our next Tuesday.

Keep your thoughts positive, know that it is absolutely normal to have fears

and doubts. You have to be the final decision maker of course. Maybe just

give yourself a mental picture of what the results are going to mean for you

and visualize that whenever you are second guessing yourself.

Good luck, my thoughts and prayers will be with you on the big day.

Tammy

12 Nov

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Re: Digest Number 1583

> I hear a lot of you talking about being scared before surgery, but does

> everyone have second thoughts? I'm 13 days away from a new life and every

day I

> think I may be doing the wrong thing to myself. Any input?

>

> ~Mandy

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

HI,I'M 6 WKS POST-OP AND I WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 10-21-03 SO I WAS TRYING

TO GET MY MIND RIGHT.THEN I GOT THE CALL 10-6-03(MONDAY),WHILE I WAS GETTING

READY FOR WORK AND THEY TOLD ME MY DATE WAS MOVED TO 10-8-03(WEDNESDAY)!!!!SO I

REALLY DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET " PREPARED " ..I WAS TERRIFIED BUT I KNEW THAT I

DIDN'T WANT TO GO ON GETTING BIGGER.ANOTHER SUMMER WHEN I CAN'T WEAR

SHORTS,SLEEVELESS SHIRTS,BEING OUT OF BREATH,HAVING THIS NEWLY DIAGNOSED

ASTHMA,BEING UNCOMFORTABLE,ETC...NEED ANYMORE CONVINCING THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT

THING TO DO?,CALL ME DAY OR NIGHT.I'LL CONVINCE YOU.WEDNESDAY WAS

MY 6WKS AND I'M DOWN 33LBS!!!!! AND I'M DOWN 1 SIZE!!!!!!!!!...KATRINA GARDNER

Paigesgal@... wrote:I hear a lot of you talking about being scared before

surgery, but does

everyone have second thoughts? I'm 13 days away from a new life and every day I

think I may be doing the wrong thing to myself. Any input?

~Mandy