I've got the Pre-Op Blues

Jul 14, 2010

I am so destracted by my impending lifestyle change. I wish I could hop onto the operating table now and say "Knock me out fellas 'cause we're slappin' a band on this thing!"...I have so much work to get done at the office, but I just can't seem to focus on any of it! It sucks! I keep reading up on surgery stuff and recipes and reading blogs and skimming through before/after photos. Then I ordered some books on Amazon. I am making a list of things to have on-hand after surgery. Then, the next thing you know I'm looking into costs of plastic surgery and I haven't even had the band put on yet!

I'm just consumed by this right now and excited. This is what I want to be thinking about... not WORK. Gah! ;)

25 days until my surgery date! Wow. It's so close, yet it seems like forever to wait!

I had my gallbladder removed in late March and for some reason I gained weight after the surgery. I was about 322 when I had the surgery and then the last time I went to see my surgeon I was at 337! This gain made my BMI too high for surgery (my surgeon wants a BMI of 55 or lower), so he made me promise to get it down so that I could have my surgery on time. I assured him that I would. And I will!

Get this: Yesterday I weighed in the morning. 336. I had some water retention in my legs that was obvious, so I took one of my fluid pills to help aleviate some of that. I drank almost 4 liters of water yesterday too.

Today? 330.4. Almost 6lbs of fluid! That's amazing. That also gives me the BMI I need. So, it makes me feel better that the weight was partly water! I still want to lose all I can before surgery.

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