waiting for the magic day

Jan 28, 2009

Well, I have two weeks before I go in for my surgery.  I am so excited to start this weight loss journey.  Right now I am on the first day of my Optifast diet... I am starving I have to tell you.  The chocolate flavour is good, the vanilla leaves alot to be desired.  I think this is the worst part of the process, after the surgery you at least do not have to deal with the hunger pains. 
My battle with my weight began when I was pregnant with my son, my baby just had a baby of his own, he is now 26 years old.  I never had a weight problem, in fact I was always on the thin side.  When I gave birth to my son all those years ago, I tipped the scales at 220 pounds, I had doubled my weight in 9 short months.  My weight has continued to climb over the years reaching a high of 260 pounds, I am down a little from there I know weigh in at 258 pounds, yeah I know only 2 pounds but 2 pounds to a fat person is like 30 pounds to a thin person.  I have tried every diet you can imagine, I have spent thousands of dollars on joining different things like Weight watchers, LA weight loss, you name it I have tried it.  I know some of these things work for others and I am happy for thier success, however, for me they just did not work.

So what is the first thing that I am going to do when I reach my goal weight of 158 pounds?  I am going to go tree gliding, you know that zip line thing that you can go on and fly through the forest like a bird.  I have always wanted to do it, but did not meet the weight requirement, not underweight but way over the weight limit :(  I would have been mortified if I had been responsible for the death of a tree, by me pulling it to the ground and having it snap under the stress of all my weight.
I will keep you posted once I have my surgery on Feb 12 2009, I am so glad that it is before Valentines day, the thought of all those 1/2 price chocolates on Feb 15th will not tempt me anymore!  I also have to figure out how to make my photos the correct size for downloading, if anyone knows how to do that, please let me know.  That has been the favorite thing of this whole process, looking at all the fab before and after pics, everyone looks so beautiful!
Till later, Cat 

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