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to be in to a size 12 by my one year anniversary

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be healthy....surgery will help knees, back and glucose levels

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
Before menopause I never really struggled with my weight. If I needed to lose weight, dieting with Atkins or just cutting back would work and I could usually drop the weight fairly quickly. However, upon entering pari-menopause at about age 45 everything changed. My fat distribution changed (I had back fat for the first time ever). Menopause was long and worse than puberty for me. Finally after seven years the docs got my hormones settled and I was able to lose a good deal of the 70 lbs. I had gained. I dieted and was truly conscientious about exercise and food for the next seven years. Then in 2007 I quit smoking and within 3 years all of the weight I had lost plus some came back. It was a dreadful three plus years. My daughter had Bariatric...
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5 days and counting
on September 30, 2011 10:56 am
I am at work and having a hard time concentrating, thus I thought I would take a few minutes and write about what is on my mind......MY SURGERY of course.  I keep thinking that there is so much to remember about eating, vitamins, self care, etc. in the days after surgery that I'll never keep it all straight....I am a very organized person, yet this is such a monumental life change it feels as though I can't be organized enough. 

I plan on doing some more shopping this weekend for items I will need upon returning home from the hospital.  One thing that startled me last night, I had forgotten to get anything for my husband's dinner.  I am on a pre-op diet and have become so self absorbed with this process I seem to think of nothing else.  He is a good guy and just laughed and went to the store himself. 

So needless to say, and as most of you probably know and understand, my anxiety and excitement are building.  I'll keep blogging as the journey continues.
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