I hit goal yesterday but...

Jun 08, 2010

I have decided to hold off on surgery until January. Financially it makes much better sense. I fully intend on continuing with the program. Finishing out my appointments and attending the monthly group meetings. Since I have hit my surgical goal, I'm going to make myself a new goal. I'm thinking 280!!! As long as I don't go below 250, I will still qualify for surgery. 7 months is a long ways away, but it will be worth it in the end. When I first started the Kaiser Bariatric program, I was told it would be a year long process before surgery. That would have put me at February of next year. Things moved so fast though and I could have had surgery next month. August-October (and maybe even part of November) are out for me because that is our busy season at work. December is out because my boss is taking vacation then. January makes the best sense since 1) My PTO starts over again and I can use that instead of disability or missing pay because of the disability wait period. 2) My flex spending card/account also starts over again so I wont have to worry about the hospital co-pay or all the prescriptions/Dr visit co-pays. I'm a single mom and I do everything on my own. I have to put my children first and not do anything that will just make life harder for us. Also, although I still have my heart set on surgery, I have already told my daughter that, if in the next 7 months I get down to below 240, I will just continue on my own. I dint see that happening but you never know. I did just lose 34 pounds in 2 months!!

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