Only 3 more days!!!

So my surgery is this thursday on the 5th and I can't be more excited.  At the same time I will be releived once its all done.  I miss eating, hell even just the act of chewing.  One of the best parts of my day is when I get to have my centrum chewables twice a day.  I've been going through mints like crazy simply because the milk based protein shakes leave me with bad breath.  I am down to 396, so 30lbs down preop so far.  It would be nice to get down to 386 by Thursday but I'd be happy for 390 at this point.  I was hoping I could get down to 376 before surgery but that isn't possible anymore.  I should have worked out more and played video games less. 

I convinced the wife to let me move the big screen tv into the bedroom for my recovery so that will be nice.  I work in IT and my work is letting me do 2 weeks after the surgery of just helpdesk from home.  So I'll have my laptop with dual monitors because of my docking station to my left, a wireless keyboard and mouse, a headset for my phone, and my big screen in front of me to watch movies and play PS3, lol.  Yep..recovery witll be REAALLLL tough, but somehow i'll manage.

Good things are on your way Dan.

Just remember one of the post surgery rules is Walk Walk Walk.

I still think of my vitamins as candy to clean my palate after my meals since I can not have a drink of something. You will be looking at food in a whole new way very quickly Good luck and take care.

As long as your doctor is satisfied with your weight loss, I suggest that you no worry about your pre-op weight loss over the next few days.  You'll see a rapid weight loss post op and this whole pre-op prep will be a distant memory.  You'll soon be going through the various post-op eating stages and losing weight rapidly.

looks like wisconsin is losing more weight.   I will make room on the loser's bench for ya

Congratulations Daniel.   You know the preop diet is always pretty tough, because you feel like you're going to miss all this stuff for the rest of your life, but the truth of the matter is your taste is going to change somewhat.  You'll see that some food you always loved, you won't really like anymore and some of the foods you wouldn't touch before may become your favorite.  You're doing great.  You're going to be shocked at your weight loss after surgery.

Good luck this Thursday and let us know how things went!  Happy losing!