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below 300 today!    298 at TOPS weigh-in!  

Now, riding the stepper at the gym!   

Today at work (for the first time)  someone said to me "Hey, are you losing weight?  . . . wait a minute, is that why you were off work?  Did you have WLS?"

1 month out and I am still amazed to find myself walking down this road which is even less familiar than I had expected.  I am struggling to get enough to eat, especially protein, while old favorites and even some things I had been able to eat post surgery now leave me nauseated and with no desire.  

Weigh-in last night had me down 2.6 for the week, for a grand total this year of 41.0 (23.6 since surgery.)  We did progress pics last night - I still don't see it, but I know that my clothing fits a bit differently.  I wish it were going faster, but I am still please that it's going this well. 

I had my post-op appointment today with my surgeon & nutritionist.  The surgeon cleared me medically in all ways.  The nutritionist suggested I increase my protein a little bit as I am just barely making my protein goals.

I was slightly heavier on the scale at the WLS center than I was at the hospital on surgery day - but nutritionist isn't concerned about that at all.  I am 11 lbs lower than my last weight at the WLS center - 8/15, and no matter how you slice it I'm down more than 30 lbs in a little over a month.

Report time is 2:30 pm, so I am sitting home just passing the time.  Pictures to come, and more to come in the upcoming days!

nine days to go.  I'm happy, content with my liver - shrinking diet, and wide awake at 1:30 am...again.  This is the 3rd time this week. I initially blamed it on caffine in my protein drink but I stopped taking that variety and here I am, again.  Grrrrrr...

In other news, I have completed six or if 14 days on the liver shrinking diet, and it is going really well.  Last Wednesday at TOPS, I lost  8 pounds (3 days in). We shall see what this Wednesday brings, but I suspect it will be equaling encouraging.  I am now at a weight I haven't seen since May 2014, and I hope for record lows very soon.  

(Record low is 287.8 on September 6, 2011)

Today my liver-shrinking diet begins.  2 weeks until surgery.

Every step along the way, I have had at moment where it occurred to me that "Shit just got REAL," and today is no exception. 

I have a sensation as if I am about to dive from a cliff.  I am going to places I have never been before, and when I make this leap, I will never be able to return to the way things were before.  I have never experienced the things I'm about to experience, but I have the witness of those who have gone before to assure me and prepare me.  Still, my heart is pounding and my knees are knocking.

Here we go . . . into the air!  Making final preparations to earn my wings at Cliff Diving.

The countdown is on!

That is all 

my last nutritionist appointment was June 11 and the WLS center was to submit for.           insurance immediately after.  I am over 90 days  from my start date and have my clearances, finally!  (I had to go all the way to a cardiac catheterization to get cardiac clearance!Tomorrow  is the last day of the second week while I wait for my insurance approval.  I'm excited and a little bit anxious as I wait for the news.  My preop class is July 9, so in theory I could go anytime after that date.  

In the meanwhile, I'm trying out the (modified) preop  liver reducing diet. My BMI is 61.25 and doc wants it lower before my date. My fear is that if I don't  get it below 60, my surgery won't happen.  That fear is helping me resist temptation and resist that little inner voice tempting me, saying "nobody will know."  For the first time in a long time, I realize that me body will know and that's what counts!