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By the time you read this you will be all done I'm sure! I'm sure everything will go great as it did with me. Looking forward to hearing about it!

Hey AnaA! Tomorrow will be a week since my surgery and I feel great. I haven't have much of the acid reflux the last couple of days so that is a huge win. I have been living on poweraid zero. haha but I can finally drink enought that I don't feel like I am dehydrated. Yesterday I went and bought drinkable yogurt, Its called Frusion smoothie... So good, I kinda over did it because I was so used to clear liquids that I drank about 3oz of it, was not a good result. But a couple sips of that and I am completly satisfied. The nutritionist said to drink the yogurt before you start the protien shakes again, something about needing the yougurt cultures. Either way I'm happy with it. Good luck!

Congrats! You've got nothing to worry about, I had a great experence. I'm having some indigestion discomfort but Im hoping that will go away soon. Water has not been good with me, but in the gift shop at the hotel they have this Peach electrolite drink that went down better. Now that I am back in San Deigo I picked up some Poweraid and that is going pretty well too. Best of luck!

Meredith, I am so glad you doing better. Im hoping that means there is an end in sight for me. I am having a rough day today myself. I should have flown home today but I decieded on another night in San Deigo, and I upgraded to first class for tomorrow. I thought the 3 hour drive from the hotel back to San Deigo was going to kill me. So there was no way I wanted to spend the day flying all cramped up. If it wasn't for the indigestion feeling I would be good. Im hoping that passes soon...

I had my sugery the day before yesterday. My goal from OCC was to lose 17lbs before, I lost 22. I did start a few days early because I was concerned about losing that much in such a short time. I just followed the diet and it was fine. I did cheat a couple of times, but nothing major. One night I had a chicken taco salad so it wasn't too bad, not like I ate a bucket of KFC. LOL. My advice is just follow the diet and it will be fine...

Hello AnaA, The surgery went well. I was discharged yesterday morning and I'm in the hotel now. Headed to San Deigo this afternoon. I'm alittle sore but I guess that is to be expected. The worst part is just being uncomfortable from the indiguestion. Even small sips of water are giving me this acid reflux thing. The broth at the hotel is really the only thing that is going down well, maybe thats because its hot? I dont know. I am most comfortable standing and walking around. They told me the first 72 hours were the worst for the acid reflux so I am looking forward to getting over that. Overall it was pretty easy, the staff and doctors were great. The nurses that were taking care of me didn't speak a whole lot of English but they were very sweet and they could understand what I need. I asked alot of questions about the medications they were giving me in the IV, and they were able to answer everything well enough for me to understand. Also there were plenty of other English speaking staff if you needed a translator. Over all everything has gone very well and I have no regrets, im just looking forward to getting through the next few weeks... Best of luck!

How has your recovery been so far? I am concerned about the first couple of weeks after...

I fly in Wednesday! I've lost 16 lbs so far with shakes and health choice meals over the last two and a half weeks or so. I started a few days early becasue I was concerned with being able to lose the requred 17lbs before I went for surgury. Plus I think my scale is playing games with my head lol. I think I'm closer to about 20lbs down and my scale just weighs a few pounds heavy. Either way I'm not going to stress it, one way or the other I will be where I need to be Wednesday. I just realized about an hour ago that I have to go on all liquids tomorrow. Time has gone by really quickly and I haven't had time to stress yet, I guess I can do that on the flight...lol