Thanks Barb!  Make sure they keep giving me the GOOD DRUGS!! 

Hey everyone! Well.. just 3 more days to go and on Tuesday afternoon, I will take my seat on the Loser's Bench! It seems like it took forever to get through the process, but it was actually about 4 months (that includes the month that my PCP couldn't find my medical records), so I guess that's not so bad. The last week has truly flown bye. Tomorrow I'll pack my bag for the hospital. And Monday I do my pre-op testing. I'm pretty sure I have everything (vitamins, protein, etc), except my calcium which will hopefully arrive in the mail on Monday. I ordered it from Bariatric Advantage this past Sunday or Monday... what's up with the slow delivery service???
Anyway, I'm ready as I can be and feeling ALOT of nervousness. But, I made the decision to have this surgery because I want to have a longer and much healthier life to share with my kids and grandkids.
Uhh, YES, I HAVE GRANDKIDS... but I'm a DIVA kind of GRANDMA!! 

Last week we released two major updates. First was the public release of OH Groups where any ObesityHelp member can now create their own Group. Second was the addition of Activity Tracking to Health Tracker, which provides a robust and easy to use tool to track and monitor your exercise and activity. Today we have added My Meals and an Activity vs. Weight Loss Report to Health Tracker. 

My Meals My Meals allows you to group and store multiple food and beverage items as a custom meal that can be used over and over again. If you have meals that you eat on a regular basis, you will no longer need to log each food item individually.

To access My Meals, go to your Health Tracker in My OH and click on the Nutrition tab. You will see My Meals listed under Nutrition.

Creating a new meal works similar to your Food Log. You can search for food items on the right and add the foods to the meal on the left. A Calorie Breakdown chart and Nutrient Summary Label are also available for each meal.

Once a meal is created you can add that meal to your Food Log from My Meals by clicking "i had this" or you can search for the meal from your Food Log.

When searching for a meal to add to your Food Log, all meals will be returned when "My Foods" is selected in search. So, to "drill down" on meals that you have created, select to only show "My Foods." When a new meal is created it may require up to 30 minutes for that meal to be indexed and become searchable.

Activity vs. Weight Loss Report Adding to the Macronutrient and Export Reports previously available, there is now an Activity vs. Weight Loss Report. This report will allow to compare Average Time in Activity vs Weight over time, providing you with further insight into what impact physical activity as on weight loss and weight loss maintenance. In Health Tracker, click Reports and then select Activity vs. Weight Loss.

We hope these additions to Health Track reduce the time required to log your daily food intake and makes it easier to view how physical activity impacts your weight.   Create your first meal now! If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this release, please post them on the Main Message Board.

Thank you! Yes, I am so full of all these emotions.. I go from happy, to excited and then nervous.. over and over.. But I am soooooooo ready to move along in my journey.  I've been going over my list of things to take to the hospital and my shopping list for what I need when I get home.

To Vegas1lady:
Hang in there.. hopefully you won't have to wait much longer on approval. My biggest wait was on my PCP trying to find all my records. It took over a month. Some of my earlier records that they had archived offsite were never found.  So, I had to request earlier records from another state when I was under the care of another doctor.  When we finally submitted everything to my insurance provider, (United HealthCare), it took about 10 days for approval... and YES, I called them almost every day!!  LOL!!    I figured I'd worry them to death and hopefully speed them up just to get rid of me... .

Good for you thats fabulous!!!!!! I can imagine how happy you are.  I  am so close my surgery date is Nov 2 but still waiting approval I cant stand the wait