You will be a skinnie minnie in no time! Good luck with the surgery!
"The most difficult part of changing how you live and eat is believing that change is possible. It takes a fierce kind of love for yourself." - Geneen Roth
good thoughts for fast healing coming from the east coast! and btw, I do hope you have the SECOND painless surgery in history...I swear I barely felt a thing, and never any gas pains. wishing you the same!!