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The Night Before
Mar 16, 2009
Ok so here it is the night before the start of the preperation period before surgery. This is going to be a long journey from here but it needs to start. I had a long weekend and took my wife and kids to my mother in laws for the weekend. I spent last week reading about pre and post surgery diets and thinking about the different things I will need to do and how I can get my exercise, diet and emotional and mental state ready for and for after the surgery.
So I have been approved by OHIP my health care here in ontario to go get assessed at Henry Ford Hospital to have gastric bypass.So I looked at all the things I have done in the past and where I think the best place to start in all the areas would be. I will be walking for cardio every day. I have found in the past if I don't walk one day it makes it harder to do it the next so this is one activity I have to do daily. I will be lifting weights 3 times a week to start. Lifting is my favorite exercise and I never have a problem getting into the weight room when I am not suffering from back or leg pain. I will share my diet tommorow but it will be basically 3 meals and 3 snacks under 2000cals, less then 30% fat yada yada I am going to post it daily in these blogs so it will become self explanitory. My goal is over the months leading to surgery to get closer and closer to the post op diet. Emotional and mental wise I am looking into the WLS group that meets in here.
So starting tommorow I will list all I did and didn't do everyday. I am going to use this because it will then be easy to have anyone in the WLS program who needs to look at where I am at and what I am doing. I will weight in tommorow at work and keep very close records out here through this whole journey. I don't want to take this blessing of being given the tool of WLS as a reason to slack till it happens so my goal is to lose at least 50lbs between now and then if not more.
I hope to get feed back and welcome it as long as it is polite and constructive I am kind of a tell it like it is person so you will probabley see a lot of my screw ups on here and I expect to be held accountable as it is the very reason to keep the blog so I myself can hold myself accountable.
Brad
