Darlene E.

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Well this morning I'm down another pound. So that's  6/15 so far and I have 16 days left till I have my PATs.
Going to be a busy day today. Lots of travel for hockey. I'm going to have to really watch what I do. I'm going to take my morning cleanse, then I'll have a shake for breakie. I should be home for lunch then off again for the next game.
The joys of a hockey mom LOL.

It's official, I'm a member of Total Fitness Gym. I didn't work out, but I took the tour again, and learned a few things about the machines, then I tried one of their protein shakes. Rockie Road. Yum. I just have to find out if I'll be able to use it after surgery because it was made with Whey protein. Not sure about that.
So they're open on Monday even though it's Thanksgiving, so I may stop in in the morning.
Tuesday I have an appointment to have my true body age taken. We'll see just how old this 37 year old body really is. I could have waited for it, but I decided a before and an after would be cool. So in a year, I'll take another test and see the improvements.

I'm getting so darn nervous. It seem that's all I'm thinking about. I just can't wait till it's over.

I did very well with my food today and I even went out to the bar and drank only diet pop. Don't need that alcohol on this diet of mine. I'm hoping to see a loss on the scale in the morning.

Well, today's my anniversary so I'm going to go sign up for a year membership later on after school.
Pretty bad I'm already trying to put it off.  I didn't have time to go today during the day, and at night it's busy. I didn't want to go when it's busy, but I can't go tomorrow or Sunday, and Monday is Thanksgiving. Do I really want to wait till Tuesday to go? No. But then my house need so much attention and we have no laundry in this house.
I don't know.
Dan and I are going out tonight, but not till about 9. That would give me time to go to the gym, come home and get ready, but no time for laundry.
I guess I had better go do some laundy now.

Before heading to the gym, I'm gonna stop at Walmart and get a small gym bag and a few other things to put into it. I'll be ready for a workout.

Tomorrow it will be 10 years since said our "I DO's".  Dan's been asking me for sometime what I wanted, but I could never think of anything.  He told me tonight he still hadn't gotten me anything and he's very frustrated.  Finally it came to me.... a gym membership. Yep, that's what I want.
I've got the surgery date (which is 1 month from tomorrow), I've been testing protein powders, I've got my vitamins, and I think a gym membership is one more thing I can use to get myself ready.
Speaking of protein powders, I bought another jar today and also bought a sample of another.  I'll be trying those out over the next few days.
I bought a body cleanser too. A 15 day program to detoxify my body. I figured 15 days is good, cause that will bring me to about 15 days before surgery. That's when I can no longer take certain kinds of meds and vitamins.
Boy, I'm getting excited.

Well, this morning I'm down 5lbs. I know it's prob water weight, but I'll take it. It's 5lbs closer to my mini goal before my PATs.

Well, since I'm up 10 lbs, I've decided to set a 15 lb goal from now till my PATs. I started Atkins Monday and I've been doing good ever since. I know I can meet this goal. I may even tack on another 5 lbs, but for now I'm just going to stick with 15.
I'll post em as I lose em.

So, here we are 3 weeks before my pre-op appointment and I'm up 10 lbs. This is so NOT good.
Yesterday I started Atkins again. So far so good. Now, it's not a matter of I'll do it later, but I have no time left., it must be now.
I'm hoping to be down at least 15-20 lbs. I know I've lost 13 in one week on Atkins before so I can do it again.

I think I'm going to ask Dan about joining that gym. If I could get a few weeks in before surgery, maybe that will help with the weight loss and with the healing post-op.

I can't believe it. Only 3 weeks left till my appointment. Time flies.

Yesterday I went out and bought a Magic Blender. It has a small carafe and also has 2 glasses you can blend in. That sounds ideal for making my protein shakes.
Well, time to make a good breakfast and start my Atkins day.

Dan went out and somehow someone found out about my surgery and filled his head with all kinds of ideas.
First of all he was mad I posted the fact I was having the surgery on Face Book. Actually I did't post it, but joined my local support group as a friend and it was published in the news feed. Someone saw it and asked him about it.

Now he thinks I lied to him and didn't tell him all there was to know about it. For instance he says I didn't tell him I could become addicted to something else after. Well, I guess I just knew that and didn't concerder it something worth vesting any time and thought in. Not that I"m in denile that it could happen, but I end up loosing my teeth too, but it's not something I think to much about.
He was also mad that I didn't research how much the plasic surgeries cost after ward. Again I didn't think it was necessary. If I need it when the time comes, I'll look into it. If we can't afford it, fine. To me WLS is to same my life. My look come later on a we'll see basis.
He wanted me to look into how much the plastics will cost cause if they were to much he wasn't going to approve of me getting my surgery in Nov.  I'm glad it didn't come to that cause I am getting it in Nov and that's not negotiable.
It was a bad scene for a few days.
Things are better now and I think he's once again on board. I think he'll be coming to the next support group meeting. There was one last night but I wasn't able to attend because I was already trying to figure out how to be in two places at once.

Yesterday I looked into a gym membership. I think I'll be joining in the next week or two. Dan was't exactly sold on the idea, prob because I've always failed at all my past comittments. This time I have no choice. I must exercise with the surgery to make it the best successful outcome I can.

I bought myself a protein smoothie mix. It's called ISO femme. I tried it mixex with skim milk and it was very good. Guess I hit the jackpot on the first crack. Don't know if I'll be able to drink the milk part post-surgey, but I can make it with water too.
They have a strawberry flavour so I'll be picking that up next.
I also bought a chewable multi vitamin for 50+ which has got a higher dose of most of the vits and mins.
I saw the Vitamin B12 disolving strips were on sale so I picked up 2 of those too. I hear most people need those too.

I'm starting to get myself ready. Now I just have to lose some weight and I'll be all set.

Well, it looks like I've gained about 10lbs since going in for my consult. I know I needed to lose weight before my surgery, and now I need to get that weight off AND lose some weight.
Today is Saturday, so starting on Monday, I'll have exactly 6 week to drop all the weight I need. Monday I'll start a diet. Hopefully my last diet ever. After the surgery, that will be my new lifestyle not a diet.

The quitting smoking is going well. I've quit for 4 full days and today is day 5 and so far I'm doing just fine.

I've been thinking of joining a gym after my surgery. Starting on Monday I think I'll go check out the gym in the next town. I know it has a pool and they do aqua fit which sounds like fun.

So they say I have to be quit for 6 weeks before surgery. Time was a ticking, so yesteray I quit.
Today is day 2 and I'm doing ok.
Tonight I'm going to hockey and I know I'll be tempted to smoke with the girls, but I must stay strong. I want this surgery so bad.

Yesterday I also started writing a good bye letter for each family member, just incase there are complications with the surgery. I wrote a letter to Dan and one to Reilly so far. I'll be working on the others at a later time.

I'm still waiting for further instructions about the surgery to come in the mail. The lady in admitting said she'd send them out so I'd know what to do and not do at different times before surgery.