Hi i am looking foward to my Dr. app and then sleeve day on the 17 feb, like you i have deceided to do the optifast drink for 4 weeks before surgery. were you allowed strawberries, lo-cal jelly. i have stock piled some coffee optifast, lol i dont think i will have any problem with drinking water as the weather has been typical Qld, in the wet season. hot and humid and wet. looking foward to your further posts

Hi Michelle,Happy New Year! I am on the liquid diet finally and have my sugery 1/21/13. Hope the message finds you happy and feeling great!

Hi Michelle, sounds like you are doing really well. I was having all sorts of weird food cravings, thoughts, etc when I was on the fluids for 3 weeks, was never so happy to see a puree in my life. I am now on soft foods which is bliss, fish goes down well, runny weetbix or 1 soft scrambled egg with cheese on top is great for breaky. The egg fills me up so much. Dinner i have been having mostly stewed meat, the other night I had spagetti and meatballs without the spagetti just sauce and mushed up meatball, it was great. I understand about the scale doing your head in, I seem to lose nothing for a week or two and then drop a couple of kg in a couple of days. I have stopped weighing myself everyday as it does mess with your mind. How did you go with the dietician? Are you on puree or soft foods yet? Talk soon. Lizzy

Hi Michelle, congratulations on your op. You are going to love your new body in a couple of months. Also you did so well pre op. WOW!
Just drink lots of water and walk when you are feeling up to it.
I am 3 months post op and 24kgs lighter, more energy and really happy with the shrinking body.
Let us know your progess, look after yourself. Amanda

Hi Shellybee
Congratulations on your op, you are going to love yourself forever! I found the first month to six weeks mostly on shakes still and water and liquids, yoghurts and soups. Just walk and drink water.
I am now 3 months post op, dropped 2 sizes in clothes, 24 kilos lighter, more energy, and now very noticeable and loving the comments!
Take it easy and do everything by the book, don't lift heavy things, hope your feeling abit more human and let us know your progress.
Well done, Amanda x

Hey shellybee, just wondering how you are going. Did you go okay with the surgery? I am doing good now 3 weeks out. Lost 7.5kg in first 8 days then stalled for 2 weeks and lost nothing then as soon as I started on puréed 4 days ago and have lost 2.5kg in 3 days. Bizarre but good. Hope you are doing okay. Talk soon. lizzy

Thank you, I have lost 60 pounds in three months!

hi all and thanks for the kind words and thoughts, well all i can say is it all went very well and i was lucky that i had a 4 week opti diet prior to for my liver as the doctor said if i handn't stuck to that as well as i did he couldn't have opterated so i have been blessed......other than that, day 1 (horrific) day 2 (bearable) day 3 (feeling soooo much better) day 4 (did i really have this opt) day 5 (home and doing so so well) i was off ive fluids within 2 days and sipping soups and fluids daily and i progress really well, it blows me away i even wake in the morning and think (iam hungery) wow i don't know if this is the head or stomach (it feels like stomach lol) but alll in all loving it just cannot wait to see the rewards within the next coming months. Can i also add iam not the type to be weighing myself daily, it does my head in more than anything else so will be weighed only when returning to dietian on visits. anyway iam so happy with the overall progress of everything and thanks again for you forums and ideas that keep me going will update soon again....

Sending you good thoughts and warm wishes.

hey matey, thinking of you xxx

hope all went well for u hunny xxx

Many blessings and prayers for you today. Hugs Judy

Sending prayers your way that your surgery goes well and you have a quick recovery!

Sending you best Scottish wishes for your surgery tmro, hope it all goes great and a speedy recovery. Good luck xxx

Hey matey, just stopping by to wish you all the best for your surgery tomorrow. I will be thinking of you and I wish a speedy recovery for you. So glad your day has finally arrived, see you on the other side xxx