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Michael, Congratulations on your success, but more importantly, have you emailed the OCC to ask your valid questions? I am about to be plicated on July 20th and I know I would definitely want to know if my stomach were possibly stretched. I have seen many posts on here where people wonder if that has occurred, and the advice/answer always seems to be this, (thank goodness!) "Contact us at the OCC, we can't help you if we don't know what is going on" Best of luck and keep us updated! Ana

Hi Lara, I will be having my plication soon too! It's nice to meet you. Welcome to the forum. I hope you keep in touch and keep us posted so we can follow one another's journey. Take are

Thank you for sharing that Meredith! It looks like you are doing great. 11 More days until my plication and I plan to journal that experience here too for others to read. I know how I wish there were more updated posts here so I appreciate yours and intend to follow through adding mine.What were the prescribed medications you needed? Did you take the papaya enzyme everyone talks about for gas? It seems to be popular and helpful here from past posters. Please feel free to contact me too. Continued success!

Twelve days to go until plication. (why did the 12 days of Christmas just pop into my head?? ...12 pounds before op, 11 lbs the next week, 10 lbs week after.. ok i'm stopping now ) Today I went out dancing with friends at this really hip inclusive club. The music was fantastic, the ambient was perfect and there was the sweetest breeze. Every one had a drink in hand. This was my first "2 weeks to go until procedure" temptation challenge. I am not a major drinker, but I do like to social drink. All my friends and my sweetie had that vibe going. But I put some thought into this. I thought, no, no alcohal from the day I began to cleanse 3 weeks ago, and that means even at social outings. I figured, i'm going to have to learn how to deal with this kinda thing anyway for awhile so might as well start now. I ordered a cranberry on ice with lime. It was put in the same kinda vessel everyone else had so no one even knew the diference! When I was asked what I was drinking I said cran and everyone was cool with that, and 15 minutes later they'd forgotten anyway lol I felt really super proud conquering that. It seems simple. DUH, just say you're not drinking. But we all know what peer pressure is like. Permitting myself to not drink and feel content with that made a big diference in my choices and those who asked me why I wasn't drinking we're supportive when I said I was on a cleansing and needed to drop some lbs. for my health. It was very important for me to work everything out like I did totally acknowledging what I was feeling and why and then allowing myself to be who I was in that moment, a woman in process of losing weight. And as it turned out, it only heightened the ambiant.

Best Wishes for smooth going on your procedure Suzieq. I will be there July 20th.

Hi Meredith! *hugs* Wow, only 2 weeks from contact to procedure! I think that's probably better, lol having too much time to think about it can take... well, too much time thinking about it. Congratulations on quickly approaching your 1 week post op anniversary! Yea! Continued success. I look forward to hearing about your journey and sharing mine, as well as support for us all here. Hi Southern Guy, Best of ease with your procedure this Wednesday! May you walk away from it thinking, "that was easy!" That's what i'm hoping for. I look forward to sharing your journey also. I'm excited about this new group we're starting of members just taking this journey. Make sure you check out the checklist created on the forum for what to take.

Hello Fellow Fighters, My journey toward new health and vitality began 1 1/2 months ago when I first contacted the OCC. The goal to weight loss began 3 weeks ago. So far I am down 10 lbs. I have 1 more lb. to go to achieve my goal of losing 5% of my weight (11 lbs.) I began my journey at 221 lbs., and now am at 211. I have chosen the protein shakes 2x's a day, greens, and lean cuisine meal path. It is working for me. I tend to yo yo. Do fantastic for 2 weeks straight, then derail, then start over. For this reason I decided to begin my 5% weight loss journey 1 month in advance versus the 2 weeks before. Now that I have roughly 2 weeks to go until my plication, I have no desire to slack off. I know that my optimal health is at stake. I want to have the smoothest procedure posssible and honor that by losing the most fat around my liver as possible. I feel a good degree of nervousness, and any and all encouragements are greatly appreciated. Thank you to those of you who have reached out already! I appreciate you for it! I will do my best to blog my honest experience throughout my WLS journey. Success to ALL of US!

A happy update to present and future readers, I weighed in today and now have lost 10 lbs. I have 1 more lb. to go in 12 days, and feel very positive about that! Go ME!

I know this is an older thread, but maybe this will give it new life. I am having plication done on July 20th and am on the pre diet for 2 weeks before procedure. Because I have so much trouble losing weight, I tend to yo-yo, do great for 2 weeks, then bam, eat off here and there and then mess up for a week, and go back on track, I started the diet knowing this about myself a month in advadvance. I started out at 221 and have lost 9 pounds. I am at 213. As I now have 2 weeks to go I have 2 more pounds to lose and feel confident I will make that, because i've gone off for a week, I can crack down the two weeks until procedure. For obvious reasons, I am somewhat concerned about yo-yoing after plication, but I am sure the financial investment will make me think twice. This is why I feel it will work. That and not wanting to become diabetic. I am riding a thin line just now, a dangerous flirtation with diabetes. I am happy to keep in touch with all plicators for support, and all WLS's for moral support.

Meredith, I am glad that you are feeling better! I hope that every day you can improve. Stay strong girl!

I will be there on the 20th for plication. You can PM me your email and we can talk. I'm happy to have some mutual support!

Day 24 I am counting down until I have my plication procedure. This is the first day of my blog. I feel very excited/nervous [excervous??] about everything. I find myself catching sight of my body in the mirror as I walk by it. I wonder. . . what ME will emerge post plication? How Exciting! I can not wait to find out! I am happy about my decision to take control of my health. I began my pre-op dietary instructions 2 weeks ago. I chose the protein shakes and the low fat frozen dinner with ample greens: salad and soup. I started 1 month early because the 5% body weight that I had to lose came up to 11 lbs. and I wanted to make sure that I met it! So far I have lost 10 lbs and need to lose 1.5 more in 24 days. I know that this is no problem and feel good about being on task. This fantastic thought just occurred to me yesterday. For the last 12 days I have begun a permanent weight loss journey. My weight from here on out will only go down. As I sit here smiling with this thought in mind, visions of great looking clothes dance in my brain.

Hi Lisa & Meredith, *HUGS* Thank you so much for your posts. It helps to have this kind of interaction and encouragement! Lisa! You look fantastic! You are my role model! Any tips and advice you can give me on what to do along the way would be fantastic! I just loved it when you said you are LIVING your life instead of watching it! It makes me feel so hopeful, so very hopeful, thank you. How long did it take you to reach your journey? I am stargint out at 221lbs, and that is what I was at before the pre-surgery eating plan. I am now at 211.4 and that makes me feel good. I can not wait until i reach 150 and am now using you as my role model to surpass that goal! Meredith, I'm so excited to be sharing this journey with you! I will be thinking of you as you are being plicated July 2nd. My procedure is scheduled for July 20th. Are you flying? I just made my arrangements today. Let me know if you would like to email one another through this journey I would love that! Thank You Ladies, *Support* Ana

Well. I did it! I made the decision to be plicated, which is different from placated with similar results. ;0 I will have my procedure done in July. I am excited and nervous and excited and nervous about having this procedure done. I feel ready to make the necessary life changes. I want to be more active. I want to run around in life and not just listlessly watch it peripherally out of the window from the sofa. I want to wear nice clothes and feel sexy when I walk into a room. I want to wear nice dresses that look good on me. I want to emerge from this cocoon of fat that has been surrounding me unrelentingly for too long. I want to enjoy life more fully and this is my first step. I welcome comments and conversation from those who have been plicated, those who are about to make this journey, and those who are deciding to. I will keep this blog updated throughout my journey. I have 65 pounds to lose and every single thing to gain. Ana