Starting to look a lot like VSG!

Dec 27, 2010

It's starting to look and feel like I'll be sleeved soon.  After years of saying there was no way I'd consider WLS, I came to the decision the VSG was a good choice for myself on Memorial Day 2010. 

I've been working on the food issues, stressors, etc since that day and I've lost between 40-45# since, depending on what start date/scale you count as the beginning. This past year has been a wild ride, and if I can have lost what I have dealing with all there has been going on, then this next year's challenges should go well.

I had my surgical consult with Dr. Chua in Milwaukee this morning, and all seems to be on track.  H-pylori test came back negative, and I remembered I had a upper right quadrant Ultra Sound back in June for some other issues, so BONUS!!  I only need to have the reports sent over, I don't have to do the tests over.  YAY!!

Now the countdown begins.  I should hear from my insurance within a month they say.  I hope they approve it quickly, so I don't talk myself out of this process.  Over the past 25 years, I've so often lost up to 75# fairly easily and quickly (altho in the past 5 years or so it has gotten slower and more difficult) that I am afraid of talking myself out of this surgery.  I need to keep on track and remind myself that "attaining and maintaining" are not the same.  The maintaining for any length of time is where I fail, quickly and miserably.

Looking forward to what the new year will bring.  Just this loss of 40#+ has done wonders for me physically and emotionally.  I can't wait to see what another 100#+ will do!!

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