Well, I've been on my liquid diet since last Monday, so today is day eight. At first it was REALLY hard. I was going nuts. I was thinking that I would never be happy again and wondering why I was even having this surgery. And I was SOOO hungry! That all got better on about day 5. At this point I'm not feeling hungry much at all, and I'm in a much better frame of mind. AND I've lost about 13 pounds so far, which is awesome! My surgery is on Thursday, which is in 3 days, and I'm just ready to have it over with and be on the losing side!!!

I almost forgot to mention that I will be keeping a video journal of my WLS journey. I will still be posting on here, and my posts will become more frequent when I am post-op and losing weight. But I will also be posting video journal entries on YouTube. So if you'd like a more personal look into my WLS journey, please check out my videos! Here is a link to my YouTube Channel:  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rrrrrrrrrebecca

Well, it's after midnight as I'm typing this, which means it's officially Thursday, which means my surgery is in exactly TWO WEEKS!!! I can't believe the time has gone so fast! It's strange, because the days seem to be dragging on, but my surgery keeps getting closer and closer faster than I can keep track. I'm really stressing now because I'm moving before my surgery and I'm realizing that I should really be packed by now, and I'm not. I'll get there though. My liquid diet starts in four days, and I'm DEFINITELY not looking forward to that part. Honestly, I think the liquid diet is the part I'm the most nervous about. I'm not nervous about the procedure at all. I work in surgery and I see these done all the time. I really trust the doctors. But I'm nervous about my co-workers seeing me all knocked out and naked and drugged up. And I'm nervous about the pain because I've never had surgery before and I don't know what it will be like. But I'm most nervous about the lovely liquid diet. Overall though, I don't think I'm as nervous as most people are before surgery, but I've always been one to be okay until the last minute and then get super nervous. Although, in this case when the last minute comes, I'll be drugged anyway. Haha! Well I guess that's all I've got going on. Just counting down the days! (14 to go!)

Okay, so this update is a little late, but a while ago I got my surgery date. My computer has been (and still is) dead, so I haven't updated since then. I'm having my surgery on August 23rd. I'm really excited, but also somewhat stressed because I'd like to lose some weight before my surgery and I'm having a hard time doing that. I know I'll lose some on my pre-op diet and everything, so I'm not too worried about it right now. My pre-op appointment is on the 14th. Since I work in surgery I'll get to pick my nurse and scrubs and anesthetist., so that's kinda nice. I'm just so glad to be totally approved and have my date!

Well, I had my nutritionist appointment on the 4th, and she said it would be at least a week before she got the information written up and sent to my surgeon. So when I got off work on that Friday (the 8th) and checked my voicemail I was shocked to have a message from my surgeon's office. At first I figured they needed more information or something, but she said that they had already received the information from the nutritionist. They faxed my information packet to my insurance company Friday morning, and the insurance company called back THE SAME DAY to say I'm approved. So... I'm approved! Yay! They said it'd be about 2 weeks until I find out my actual surgery date because the scheduler has a lot of people to schedule. But it'll probably be around August 20th or so. I'm so excited! Yay!