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Well I have finally gotten the first round of my appointments schedualded! Yeah for me!! hehe

My husband has been supportive, in a very lazy way. If that make sense. "I support whatever you want to do." But he doesn't want any details about it. How odd is that? Sure, go ahead and have the surgery, just don't bother me with the pesky details.

Here he is in the army trying to get his own weight down so he can go before the review board and get his next promotion! I'm TOTALLY supportive and interested in what HE'S doing. I think it must just be a guy thing. "Whatever makes you happy honey." Is what I hear from him. So, I feel like really I have no one happy or excited about this, but me and one of my really good friends Patti, but she's FAR away in Florida!

I am doing this for me though. For my children. To give myself a healthier and longer life as well as being the best role model I can be for my kids, so they in turn have healthy. long lives.

So this is the end of my first week since I quit my job on Sunday, and I have to say this week I have been busier then a one legged man in a butt kicking contest!! Sheesh! If I know I was going to have to be doing ALL of this, I'd go back to work!! To heck with being home when the kids get home and helping with homework and getting (and keeping) the house back to its clean orderly self!! hehe

But, it's GOOD to be busy!! Now to check into going back to school! yeah yeah. I know I was just complaining about being busy! lol

OH! Saturdays they have free dog obediance classes that Toby and I are going to start attending! Yeah for us! hehe

Well it's been only two days since I went to the siminar that the Maj at our hospital gave here and I've learned SOO much in just a couple of days! It's AMAZING!

I'm certain now that I will have the sleeve procedure done. It seems to have the best benefits and a pretty short recovery as well.

I'm soo eager to get going and to move forward. The process here will take some weeks, so I'll have to learn patience at last! Hehe

I'm already looking into foods to eat, exercises and planning on that belly dancing class I've ALWAYS wanted to take!! WOOT!

The risks of course scare the hell out of me! I think that is of course normal, and to NOT be scared would worry me somewhat. But I'm excited!

I'm also being as realistic as I can. It's going to be HARD work! I'm going to have to give up a LOT of comfort food! 

Fortunately with my kids going back to school, it has helped to put me back on a regular schedual as well as quiting my job that kept me up at night and eating junk food and skipping meals.

I'm really looking for some GOOD healthy cooking recipes that will benefit my family and myself. I already have some VERY good vitamins. It's going to take some time for my taste buds to appreciate healthy food! 

Over the last year we have changed much of our daily diets due to my youngest being autistic and with research suggesting that autistic children that don't eat wheat (specifically wheat glutten) and dairy products their autistic traits/behaviors can decrease and even disappear, so we have cut dairy and all wheat to nearly nothing (not fair to eat them in front of him). So we have been making changes in our diets.

Giving up fast food is going to be a SUPER hard one!! While my husband was deployed we did VERY good on not getting fast food more then once a week (on our family movie night), but since he's been home and I started working, it was SOO much easier to just grab something and head to work then cooking.

It's the cravings that are going to be hardest for me. Late night snacking was an issue for me as well when I was working (I was a cashier late at night so I snacked nearly ALL my shift), but now that I'm not working and in bed before 11:30pm it really isn't a problem. So that alone will help remove excess calories.

Portion size is another thing that is currently hard. It's at times just eating from habit (that sounds crazy I know, but it's TRUE). Much like smoking or drinking I suppose. If you are in a certain situation then you do those things. If I'm watching t.v. or a movie, there is snacking going on. Even if it's just air popped pop corn (we bought one to be healthier), that habit is going to be the HARDEST one to break.

I choose the sleeve surgery because of some of the research pointing to it also might be contributing to blocking the Ghrelin (sp) hormone. I keep eating even at times when I'm full. That worries me.

I'm glad I have the couple of months leading up to the surgery. I'm SOO glad that I get to speak to a nutrionist and hopefully get some healthy recipes and some good info.

I have several work out videos, but being over weight just stretching makes me huff and puff and I feel like I'm not doing anything construtive other then sweating! But if just walking up one ONE flight of stairs raises my heart rate, then damnit I need to do something!!

I can't blame all of this on the role model of my childhood (my mom), because my teenage years we had my materinal grandmother living with us and she was completely healthy and natural! She at correct portions and was active with walking, gardening and reading.

At some point every person must take and be accountable for their actions, no matter what their past. I know that my eating and non-exercising life style is not healthy. I know that I've made poor choices and let the issue build to this point that it's now going to be a factor of my health, besides just breathing heavy after ONE flight of stairs, and my feet hurting after standing only 6 hours at work.

Having tried dieting and exercising alone, I hope to stop the health issues that are starting to become apperant and stop them before they even get started in my kids.

That's what worries me most is being a bad role model for my kids. I don't want to burden them with this. I don't want them to face a life long battle with weight. I want them to see their parents healthy, happy and active. Running, swimming and playing with them. I want them to see me proud of the way I look and with high self esteem so that they will have it as well.

I refuse to let this vicious cycle continue with my children. It STOPS WITH ME!

First off...HELLO!!

I'm THRILLED that I found this site! 

Today was my first day on starting this trip to the IMPROVED me.

My Dr. Reyes suggested to everyone in the seminar that we get information on the different surgeries that are offered here. So I did so tonight and found more then I expected to since the sleeve surgery is not as known (as per Dr. Reyes) as the other two options.

So, I cruised around the web and gathered info as I jotted down questions to ask my friends (two of which have had two of the surgeries) and doctor and happened on this site. THANK YOU!!

I have lost weight in the past and the longest I was able to keep it off was nearly two years (after my second pregnancy and before my third). Two sons later and I'm fatter (I'm not ashamed to call being fat FAT! hehe) then I have ever been in my life.

My mother (wonderful, caring, kind, and loving woman) is morbidly obese and her body has paid the price for the last 15 or so years. She can barely make it up and down stairs ONCE a day. Twice a day has her heart nearly pumping out of her chest.

I love my mother. She raised three children on her own AND got her degree in accounting to provide for us as well as teach us morals, manners, and hard work ethics. One thing she failed to teach us was how to live healthy and be active. Unfortunately after going to school, working and taking care of children, the last thing on her mind was herself and her own health.

So, here I sit after four children and see my healthy (not fat) children starting to put on weight. My 18 yr old is already about 20-30lbs over weight, fortunately he's tall. I don't want my kids to go through the horror of being fat and struggling like I did to overcome the bad habits that were passed down to me by a loving and caring mother that didn't realize what she was also teaching us by her eating habits and non-exercising life style. I do not want to give my children the eating habits and lazy lifestyle that my mother gave me! The cycle ends with me! I want them to recall their childhood with happiness and playing and being active.

Though today was but a first step on the path to having the healthy and active life I so desire and crave for me and my family, I want to be as prepared and informed as I can. The good, the bad and the stumbling blocks that others that have gone before me have had to overcome or given in to.

So, I keep a positive mind set and take all the information given to me and run with it. Implement it into my life so that when my surgery day dawns then I will be as well prepared and adjusted as I can possibly be!