Getting close!

Dec 30, 2010

Today I am 3 weeks from surgery (20 days).  I can't wait to get this behind me!  We finally sold our MS house and closed on that last week; we close on our new NY house on Jan. 31.  I will be 11 days post-op so should be fine.  The move kind of worries me - I won't be able to carry much since I'll still be on restriction.  So, basically, I'm hoping to finally have my life back in February...surgery and the cross country move behind me!  We started the move in September (actually several weeks before that getting the MS house ready to put on the market).

I was back to 255 (down 2) at my last weigh in with my surgeon's office.  Just waiting for them to submit to insurance.  They told me they submit 2 weeks before the surgery date - that means January 6.  I have an appt this Monday (1/3/11) with my PCP to do my pre-op clearance, then on Tuesday (1/4/11) I have my psych clearance and my nutrition appt.

I can't wait to hear from Aetna.  If they want to battle, I'm ready this time.

I've been thinking about goal weight.  I know it's probably way too early, and everyone always wants to tell you not to set a goal because you'll be disappointed if you don't reach it...but if you don't have a goal to work towards how do you know you're not settling instead of going for all you can be?  My goal is 120 pounds.  I am 5 foot 3 inches tall.  My surgeon says I'm 5 foot 2 but he measures short!  If I don't make 120 I will be disappointed, but disappionted doesn't mean I can't be perfectly happy with life somewhat higher.  I'd be pretty happy anywhere under 150 pounds.  I have never in my adult life weighed less than 147 pounds..and I was that for like 5 min!.  But I thought I looked damn good for those 5 min!  My former dietician actually told me that my ideal weight was 112 pounds after punching away on a calculator for a few minutes  - then we both laughed and I said lets try for under 200 first!  It was pretty funny.

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