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I am surprised on how well i feel. I am not in that much pain. It was planned that I would stay in the hospital for 3 nights. I only stayed for 2 because i was doing good. Um i have been drinking water and walking. I have had a little broth.. only a few ounces. I still can't tell which are hunger and which are normal pains. I'm not sure if i have even felt hungry yet. I did pick up some premier protein shakes. I had 2 ounces last night. Very good actually. But yeah im doing good. pain right now is about a 3. I havent taken pain medication for about 5 1/2 hours. im able to get in and out of bed myself and shower myself. the nurses at the hospital said i was one of their best patients because i made it look easy. i was in the room for not even an hour and i asked to go for a walk. surprised them i think. i would get up and walk every few hours. i would just wave at them and they knew where i was going. pretty smooth this far. i have been watching my family drink pop so that has been hard. i gave up pop before surgery but now i want it. i can resist.. just need to drink more water. i did weigh myself before i left the hospital. i am down 10lbs already since the day of surgery. so in just 2 days. weird

I am in the hotel room right now. My sister and i came to town earlier today and my mom arrived about an hour ago. They went to eat while i relax in the room. I can't believe in 8 hours we will be checking into the hospital for surgery. This last month has gone by so quick. It is starting to feel more real now but with a fog cast over it. If that makes sense. I feel like it's a dream. 

Tonight is my last night of work for about 3 1/2 weeks. The time will probably fly by but i must take advantage of it and get all the rest I can. I have told a few coworkers about the surgery but i decided not to tell all. I didn't want any attention from it beforehand because it makes me uncomfortable. I have never been comfortable with talking about my weight with people. Only until recently it has been easier. All of the appointments that i have been to have helped a lot. Also, reading posts everyone writes on here makes it easier. I am still unsure of the diet for after surgery. i was given a small booklet of meals amounts but not nearly as much information that i have found out from here. I wonder if they will give me anything to take home when I leave so i know exactly what to eat and drink.

Hello everyone!

I came across this page quite a while ago. I finally decided that it was time for me to join and track my thoughts, goals, ups & downs etc. I have been in the process of complete all the steps to have bariatric surgery. It took a while lol! I started December of 2014. My surgery is scheduled for August 20th, which is in only 3 days. It is finally now starting to sink in that this is really happening. It didn't feel like it was true until very recently. I am not yet nervous or worried. I don't know what I feel to be honest. I am hopeful. I believe that all with go well. I just have to remember not to get bummed out if the weight doesn't drop as fast as I would hope that it would.

A little about me.. I am 27 years old. I am extremely obese.. not exaggerating either. I currently weight 490lbs. When I started this I was 498. I did lose about 15 pounds but then I added some back on. I think I was becoming frustrated with the length of time that it was taking. I have been overweight basically my entire life. I was always the cute 'pudgy' kid when I was younger. I weighed about 350 the entire 4 years of high school. After high school, I maintained about that same weight. It was when I was in my early 20's that I really started to pack on the pounds. It wasn't fast at all until the last few years. When I was at a doctors appointment, my doctor showed me a chart of my weight and how much it has went up. I gained roughly a 100lbs in a year. I knew that I gained a lot but I couldn't believe that it was that much. That is when I found out that I was pushing 500lbs. I decided to make a change. I checked with my health insurance and began the process.

My family has been supportive through this all. Especially my sister and my mom. Those 2 have been the only ones who continue to ask questions and try to be involved. My other sister doesn't really agree with this I don't think. She is overweight also. She did lose quite a bit of weight but then gained it back. I think she believes in doing it the old fashioned way. She has never been near 500lbs though so I don't think that she can really relate to what I am going through.

I am still young enough that it will be much easier to make the change now. I know that I can do it. The hardest part of this so far has been giving up soft drinks. I didn't think that it was going to be humanly possible to end my love affair with pop. It really hasn't been that bad so far. I mainly drink only water. I don't care for flavored water. I occasionally have a small 8 ounce glass of orange juice to mix things up but now I prefer only water. My body has been thanking me for it too. I really do feel much better just from getting off the pop. I have less headaches also.

I think that I am going to enjoy this blog and comments/help from all of you

-B