One More Week!!!

Apr 21, 2010

A week from today I will have my Lap-Band!!! I am super excited!!! I must admit that I am nervous for general anesthesia, feeling sick afterwards, and the overall unknown of what it will be like to live with the lap-band. However, those fears are nothing compared to knowing that I am 100% making the right decision for ME! I can honestly say I am going into this WITHOUT HESITATION or doubts.   In my first journal entry (that wasn't saved) I wrote a little about experiencing some of the "Last Supper Syndrome." I think that overall I am doing really well and LOSING WEIGHT as I was told to do, but I still have eaten quite a few things that are not on my "pre-op diet." While I have eaten some forbidden foods-today it was a Blizzard-I am eating them within reason (it was a small)and not binging. I think this diet is not just a weight loss tool, but it's also a great exercise in will power and learning how to eat with restriction. So...even though I have not been perfect I have done really well 85-95% of the time and I have lost 10 lbs since starting the pre-op diet 3 weeks ago.   My pre-op "class" is tomorrow and I am most looking forward to being weighed. It sounds weird for a FAT GIRL to say she's LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING WEIGHED, doesn't it??? That's because my goal is to be 300lbs or darn near close to it, on the day of my surgery.    I was 330lbs when I started the 6 month pre-op program, and 320 when I started the diet March 28th. My last weigh-in, on April 9th, I was 310 so I'm seeing improvements. I've been weighing myself at home and today on my scale (w/o clothes-sorry for the image!) I was 301.4 so I'm getting close. I want to see what the "offical scale" (WITH clothes-a much better image, huh?) says tomorrow.

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