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December 12, 2011 - I'm writing so early because I'm home sick. Saturday night was the Santa sleigh ride to benefit Toys for Tots, and it was a blast, as usual. I thought I had bundled up enough, but ...

December 6, 2011 - Hey, I got the right date on this one! :)  So tomorrow starts the pre-op liquid diet. Believe it or not, I have been looking forward to it. For one thing, no cooking for about a...

December 4, 2011 (2) - I apparently can't tell the date anymore. HA! Off by a day. What a whirlwind December always is, but it'll be twice as much this year. I just realized I have 2 full weeks of work p...

December 4, 2011 - It's been a crazy week. I've been working doubly hard at work to make sure I leave on the 20th with a clean desk, meaning most of my paperwork is being done at home. There's some s...

November 28, 2011 - A happy day indeed. My surgeon's office has my authorization letter from the insurance company approving VSG. I am scheduled 12/21/11. I keep wavering between excitment and nerves....

November 22, 2011 -  I had some sort of mini revelation today. I made dinner for myself - huuuuge craving for chicken parm. Let me preface this by saying when I make chicken parm, I don't bread it. I ...

November 21, 2011 - So, today I got my approval, but it was for the RnY. We have to resubmit for the VSG but the office staff doesn't seem to think it'll be a major problem. If I don't hear by Wednesd...

My date is set! - 12/21/11! As long as they get the insurance approval straightened out that I'm getting VSG and not RnY, I should be good to go! Will write more tonight. Bonus: I lost 7 lbs accordi...

My date is (tentatively) set! -  I just got back from the surgeon's office and now I have 2 hours until I have to be in work and NO idea what to do with myself, so here I am! The surgeon's office scheduled me for...

Getting closer to your pre-op diet. How are things going? You must...

November 20 2011 - Well, here I am, 14 hours before the second consult with the surgeon. I know I shouldn't have done it, but I got on the scale this morning. I'm 2 lbs above where I was 6 weeks ago....

Milk - 1% vs Skim vs Soy -  Let me preface this by admitting tomorrow is my follow-up with the surgeon, and if all goes well we will be submitting for insurance approval tomorrow with a target surgery date b...

Nov 19 2011 - Been awhile since I wrote in here, and that's my fault. It has been crazy at work and I haven't felt much like poking around the Internet...and then the whole Penn State scandal......

October 30 2011 - It's hard to be productive on the weekends, especially knowing that I have class the next two weekends. I did have a couple of small victories I want to remind myself of later: 1)...

October 27 2011 - I went to my first support group meeting today. I had no idea what to expect. It was SO helpful and informative. One of the things I had been worried about was that there wouldn't ...

October 25 2011 - Today was my EGD. I didn't feel any nerves about the procedure until they started wheeling me back. Thankfully, the anesthesia was fast acting and I was loopy as they were telling ...

October 24 2011 - Monday, Monday. Today felt longer than it was because 4 of my groups were on their field trip... I filled up 2 of the slots to make up kids I will miss tomorrow, and one more with ...

October 22 2011 - Missed two days...got busy, barely read the forums, but did OK keeping on my eating plan. I wavered a little last night. My parents called and asked if I wanted to go to the Ch...

October 18 2011 - So glad the first part of the labs are done today. What a loooooooooooooong day! There was mass confusion caused by my organizational skills this morning. First off, wound up getti...

Tender Beef -  I saw this phrase in another thread but didn't want to thread-jack. What exactly is "tender beef"? Sorry if that's a silly question (I've got billions of 'em, though!)...it's j...

October 17 2011 - This will be sorta short. I have to get to bed soon - 5AM wakeup for 6:30 registration for gall bladder ultrasound, chest xray, and bloodwork. See if I can get them all in before w...

October 16 2011 - That flip-flopping I did yesterday? Retail therapy helped today. Mom and I had to go shopping for a cousin's baby shower next Saturday, so after a scavenger hunt through Babies R U...

October 15 2011 - Yesterday was my first official "new" gym workout. By the end of it, I was cursing the trainer (under my breath). Wow, that workout kicked my butt...but the nice thing was, I wasn'...

My first entry - Oh wow, I have a blog. I've never had one of these before.  I'm trying to keep track of questions to ask my surgeon or the nutritionist or whomever on my next visit. This seems ...

Introduction and some questions -  Hi everyone,  I'll try to keep this short - I can get a weeee bit long winded - because I'm just reading through things here. My name is Kristi; I'm 31, and I've been overweigh...