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Hi everyone,
I got my first call back from the Bariatric team at the Sacré-Coeur Hospital today. It was just to update my information and to tell me that they will be calling me shortly to see the nut, book my blood work and plan an information meeting at the hospital. Danielle, not Martine, told me that she expect me to be operated on early in the new year. I wish it was sooner but every day I get closer.

I just wanted to let you guys know!

Derek

Well it's been a week and a day that I've been on my ZERO carb diet and it's been going very well. As of this morning I have lost 14.4 pounds and therefore I weigh 399.6lbs. Yeah that's right. I'M IN THE 300's baby. I haven't been there in about two years. Who would have guessed that one day I would be HAPPY to be in the 300's? Not me in a million years but I am proud of myself. I am still waiting on my surgery date but I decided that it would be best if I could shed a good 30 pounds or so before they do call me and then another 20 or so on OptiFast so I would be roughly down to 350 pounds. If I can make it there I wouldn't have to lose so much after surgery. Anyways, that's where I am at today! Hope everyone is doing well.

Derek

Some may think I'm crazy. Some may find it interesting. For me, I'm doing this out of curiosity. I'm curious to see how my body will react. How my mind will react. And what kind of will power I have. My plan is to follow this "miracle" diet to a T for a full month (April 8th, my bro's 20th birthday). Here's is what everyday will look like for me.

Breakfast
- 1 Multivatamin
- 3 6g Fibre pills
- 2 hard boiled eggs

Lunch
- Ham, Turkey or Chicken (lunch meats) with or without cheese

Supper
- 2 fillets of white fish or 1 chicken breast

9:00am - I've got that stomach rumble telling me I'm hungry. REALLY HUNGRY. But today is the day I start the diet. Last night I cooked 4 hard boiled eggs. 2 for today. 2 for tomorrow. I eat my 2 eggs while walking out the door. They don't taste too bad without any salt on them.

12:00pm - Stomach rumbling again. Must be time for lunch. Not to put a too big of a strain on my stomach I go to Subway for a roasted chicken salad. No cheese, just lettuce, onions and cucumbers. I use light ranch dressing. No diet pop (WHAT AM I THINKING????).

1:00pm - 32oz. of water down. Time to fill up again.

Here's my top 10 list of why I want surgery.

1. I want to live a healthy life and grow old and not die at a young age.
2. I want to get married with my beautiful grilfriend and want to look good on the wedding day.
3. I want to have kids; watch them grow up, graduate, get married and have kids of their own.
4. I want to excel at sports. I want to push myself to be better at everything I do. Something my weight prevents me from doing right now.
5. I want to have wild and steamy sex with my girlfriend. There's only so much I can do at my size and well, for me it just doesn't cut it and it frustrates me.
6. I want to be able to sit comfortably in our chairs at work, on the plane, in some cars, at the arena, heck I'd even like to have people sit next to me on the bus. I feel bad taking up 2 spots all the time.
7. I want to go shopping at normal people stores instead of the Big & Tall store. Not only will it cost me less but the clothes is so much nicer.
8. I want to start going to the gym and do weights and do cardio and not be scared to hurt my knees. I'd love to run. I'd love to have abs, pecs and biceps.
9. I want to go to the beach and take my shirt off and be stared at because I look good and not because I am obese. You know, have a nice sculpted body. That would be fun.
10. I want to be able to eat heatlhy and know that what I am eating is good for me. Eat when I'm hungry and not when I'm bored. Eat nor mal quantities of food and not double serve at every meal.

That is a small list of what I really want out of this surgery but it's my list.

Derek -xxx-
 

Hi everyone,
I'm starting to get close to a date and all so I've started telling people at work, friends and family know about my choice of surgery and how I think this is the only way I can lose the extra 200 pounds I am carrying. Thing is, some of the people who barely know me are all for it and the ones that know me best, my friends in particular, are completely clueless and think it's an easy way out and it will never work for me. They laugh at the fact that soon I won't be able to eat what I do now, they reference sarcastically that I probably will do things better when I'm skinnier, basically I feel alone without the support of my friends. I know my family are behind me 100% and you guys are there for me but the lack of support from my friends scares me. It scares me that no one will make the trip to Montreal to come and see me while I'm in bed. It scares me that they won't try to help me during recovery. I have a feeling that nobody really cares and have a feeling that during this journey I will find out who my real friends are. I have seriously cried about this. The more I talk about it the more they have a "whatever" type of attitude with me. I can understand the fact that they don't believe because I have failed many times before. But before you judge me they should ask the questions and get the facts. This is an irreversable surgery! Do they understand that? A life changing and life saving surgery! I will need all the help I can get and the fact that I fell like some of my best friends won't be there for me makes me feel very sad and scared inside. Has anyone else felt this? How do I bring the issue up? Do I bring the issue up? What are your opinions or suggestions?

Please let me know!
Thanks,
Derek -xxx-
 

Hi everyone,

Ok, I still don't have a date but I have an update on my surgery. Here's the little story that goes with it. Two people I know contacted me saying that they had surgeries scheduled for February 2nd. Thing is, they went for consults like 5-6 months after me so I was PISSED OFF. I calmed down over the weekend and tried to look for some positives and just look at it from a positive persepective. My time isn't now but it WILL come. I decided to call up the hospital and talk to the head nurse in charge just to be sure I wasn't forgotten. I was so nervous to call. What if she told me to wait my turn or just said she couldn't tell me. I would be even more pissed off. Thankfully for me the head nurse was very nice and she informed me that my time was coming and that there was just 11 people ahead of me. She told me that today she was calling patients who had their consults in March of last year. I had mine in April so my phone call is just months away. I can't wait. Sorry for all the rambling but I just had to get this off my chest. I'm so glad you guys are there for me. I can't wait to join the big team. Only months are away now! Talk to you soon! 

Derek

Happy New Year to all my OH Friends! 
Please eat and drink responsibly and no drinking and driving please. I'll be thinking of you guys at Midnight tonight! 
Here's to hoping that by this time next year I will be sleeved and on your side of the fence! 

Best wishes to all of you! 

Be safe and HAVE FUN!!!

Derek

Hi Gang,
Just wanted to let you guys know that I turned a big 24 today. My wish is that by the time I hit 26 in two years I will have had surgery and I will have started my new healthy life! That's all for now. I'm just getting ready to leave work and go home to have my first of severall drinks of the night! 

Take care,
Derek -xxx-

Seriously! I hate each and every one of you right now. All of you that are losing weight and keep losing it or are maintaining. It's a weird kind of hate where I'm SUPER HAPPY to see you guys/gals losing but it still pisses me off as I wait here on the sidelines. I love coming on here and seeing all your updates. I don't always post comments or what not but all the people in my friends list have to know that I do "stalk" you guys and go up on your profiles to see what's new and how you guys are doing.

I just want to let all of you know that I am very proud of you guys and that I can't wait to join the team! 

Keep it up guys and girls. You are all looking sexier but most of all healthier by the day! 

Derek -xxx-

Hey guys and gals,
I just wanted to update you guys on a couple of things that have gone by in the last month or so. First off, I'M ON A LIST! Even the list is about 2 years long I'm on a list somewhere. 2 years really sucks though! In two years I can easily gain 50 pounds and be somewhere near 450. I don't want to be that big when I get the surgery. I would rather be where I'm at or even lose 50 pounds to be a little healthier. Anyways, I went to my consult with Dr. Garneau and he told me that with me being as young as I am and as active as I am the VSG would be the best fit for now. He said yeah it's a slower process than the full out DS but it'll be better in the end and I may not have so much sagging skin all over the place, I won't have to take 8000 pills a day for the rest of my life and I won't have to go for lab tests every month or so. At least for a year a guess. After my 1 year post-up he'll see where I'm at and we can decide then. So that's my current news on my WLS journey.

In other exciting news I past a sleep test and got my results last week. The sheet says that I do not go into REM and I have on average 30 sleep apnea movements every hour. NOT VERY COOL. So all is all I got this beautiful little machine to help me out at night called the C-PAP. Let me just say it's weird. I've only had it for 4 nights now and I still have to get used to it. The first two nights I couldn't keep it on all night. Midway through the night I had to yank it off and burry my head into the pillow so I could sleep on my stomach. But for the past two nights I've kept it on so I could get used to it. Not only is this machine going to help me get that deep sleep I need but I will also feel more energetic during the day and therefore I'll be able to move around more and therefore be able to maybe lose a few pounds. So I'm pretty happy about that. Plus, the machine stops me from snoring so my girlfriend really appreciates that!

That's pretty much what's been going on in my life for the past month. I wanted to update a little earlier but I've been busy at work and haven't had time. You guys take care and soon I'll be shedding with you! 

Big D