Nutrition Class

Aug 01, 2010

Nutrition Class Share  Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 7:21am | Edit Note | Delete Had to be at the hospital at 830 am on .3-23-10 for my nutrition class. I had some more paperwork to fill out. The nurse took my 'before' picture and weighed me. I lost 15 pounds since this journey began for me November 1st!!

The nutrition class was very informative-first half was boring -not because of the wealth of information we learned, but because of our boring dietician that gave us this info. If I could have counted all the times she yawned it was UNREAL. Her voice was so monotone that I think the sound of it even made her sleepy...LOL!!

Only one other girl in that room is also having her surgery on April 2nd with Dr. Evanson. Most of the others had later April surgery dates.

I must say, my mom, sister & I felt like we were the smartest ones there...because they gave all of us who were having the surgery the Gastric Bypass Binder aka your BIBLE, and the entire presentation they read to us off of a power point presentation, and we were supposed to follow along in our binder, simple enough, right? Well either the dietician or the nurse would read and explain something and no lie there were 4 people in this class that would ask a ? With what was just covered and the answer was right in front of them in their binder and up on the screen...it got irritating after the first 5times!!

AND don't you know there is a know it all in every bunch. This girl, Kelly, thought she knew it all. Somehow when I went into the bariatric gift shop to get my bariatric cookbook, Kelly was also in there. I tried to be nice to her, I walked with her to show her where the cafeteria was, tried to make conversation about her testing she had said she had done Friday and tried to just make a light conversation, because as most if you know, I'm a people person. So, I'm making small talk and she stops answering--talk about 'awkward silence.'. We go our separate ways in the cafeteria. Later she says she doesn't like to talk to strangers. REALLY? She also told this to the nurse when they told us to interact with people. Okayyyyyy.

The cash registers were broke in the cafeteria, so because the cashiers couldn't ring anything up everything was free. I had mashed potatoes, green beans and a bite of the nastiest turkey.

After lunch we headed back to the classroom for our lecture from the bariatric nurse. Thankfully, they had a former patient, Alice, come in and tell us how her life has changed after having her surgery 5 years ago. WOW, she was quite the inspiration!! She talked to us for about an hour.

I've been given this wealth of information and you know what?! It hasn't changed my mind one iota. It does seem a bit overwhelming but I'm sooo determined to do this!!!

Gotta get through 2nd phase of testing today...then 9 days from today will be the start of my new life!! Keep your fingers crossed all goes well on today's testing!!! Until next time...have a super Dee duper day!! Thanks for stopping by for the love and support

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