Day one of two of the LIQUID DIET

I have two days of a liquid diet. As we come to a close of the day, I have to say so far ok. I do have a slight headache, and I admit I am hungry but I will get though it. I think what help me today was I kept busy. I had to take the jax4kids paper around as it is the 1st of the month. So that kept me from the house from like 9am to almost 2pm. The afternoon I kept busy just running the kids around. What I ate today is what on the list and only on the list. I had some chicken broth, beef broth, some Sugar-Free Popsicles, and some Sugar-Free Jello. Drinking water with some Crystal Light in it as well. I think I am going to treat myself to a Diet Dr. Pepper tomorrow. So, going to watch some Glee and NCIS tonight and take it easy. Day two coming up soon!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I am so blessed with a wonderful Family and Friends. I am truly thankful for the time I have with them.

Being one week till I have surgery I am also thankful for everyone's support in this journey. I know I could not do it with out YOU! Everyone that sends words of encouragement, thoughts and prayers I thank you!

Today, my plate will have Turkey! A 3-ounce serving of boneless, skinless lean turkey breast has 120 calories, 26 grams of protein and 1 gram of fat. How great is that for protein!

I hope everyone is blessed with family and or friends at this time of the year. May God Bless the Troops that are away from their families. My prayers are with you each day! Bess their families as well for keeping the home fires burning.

Pre-Op with the Doctor today

Judy at 299lbs as of Nov. 24. I am below 300! Mini Goal met before surgery!

Pre-Op with the Doctor today went well I feel. Phil went with me. Learned what I had to do this week and the two days before surgery. I petty much keep doing what I been doing regarding no more then 30 carbs a day but NO SNACKS. So no more snacking on cheese I guess. Then two days before surgery I am on a only liquid diet. It is only two days. I can do this! So what is on the ok list to consume? Here is the list:
1. Water or zero calorie/zero carbohydrate liquids
2. Sugar-Free Jello
3. Sugar-Free Popsicle (not fudge)
4.Coffee, unsweetened tea, Hot tea (which I don't drink any of those)
5. Crystal Light (any flavor)
6. Propel water NOT gatorade
7. Bouillon cubes/granules of chicken or beef broth (low sodium with NO bits)

Thats it! I am kind of concern about the above but I guess I can do it. I done everything else up to this point. I will have to stay busy those two days to keep my mind off food. Night time I feel will be the hardest part about it.

Surgery will not take to long. We even get pictures! The dr. show us pictures today of what it looked like with the liver, the band in place etc. It was interesting and Phil was kind of excited at the fact I will get some pictures of all of this! LOL.

So tomorrow is Thanksgiving. What is going to be on my plate? Turkey and a Low Carb Green Bean casserole. That is about it. I am ok with that. Plus it only takes one last supper as you could call it to enlarge my liver so big that the surgery can not be done. I don't want to do that. The kids and hubby will have all their favorites. I been loosing the weight so why stop now.

Except for like the LAST WEEK! It seems I been stuck at just below 300lbs for over a week now! I hope over the next week prior to surgery I can drop another 9 or 10lbs at least something! I think because I was not feeling the best, my knee hurting, I just didn't loose any right now. Grrr.

So the picture above was taken today. Only 9lbs dropped over the last few weeks. But it is a loss. I will take one more picture the night before surgery and then maybe a bit more of a loss. However clothes fit better, some I can't wear because they are a bit to big on me now and I had to go get Phil and mine old wedding bands out and I am now wearing his old one! I am happy about that and maybe I can get into mine soon! Plus it is helping keep my engagement ring on!

At this time I like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Pre-Op check in today

Not much to it since I had labs done a few weeks ago as well as the EKG and Chest x-ray. So, just had a bunch of questions that I had to answer.

Now it feels so real. Now I have all the questions of what the heck am I doing? Why am I like this? I really need to do this but gees this way? Doubts and down today because I am thinking like this. Plus not feeling the best since Saturday night is not helping at all! I got to snap out of this.

Tomorrow is back to the gym. I do a slow mile on the treadmill but I am on it! Plus I do about 5 miles on the bike. I also work some with weights. I work with bands here at home. After I get out of surgery next week, I can only walk for a while. I will ask on Wednesday when I go in for my pre-op appointment with the Dr. when I can do more other then walking and when will I be able to bowl again.

This past Saturday I bowled with the league and I guess I was starting not to feel good then I did REALLY bad! Oh well.

Weight is coming off much slower now. Almost at the 50lb mark! I can't weight to loose another 50lbs!

I will write my next update after my Dr. Visit and I will do picture too to post!

Support Group last night and worked out today

Well back on track for the most part. I went back to the gym today and took it easy on the knee but still worked it. So I hope it don't hurt real bad later but I got meds for it if it does. Right now it feels ok.

Support Group last night was really interesting. We talked about skin. You know that excess skin that you can get when you drop a lot of weight. Learned that exercise primarily stretching and cardio are recommended to help the natural elasticity of skin. Proteins and Vitamins help with that dimple effect and skin rejuvenating. Last is Moisturizing Keeping the skin moisturized does help the skin itself, but there is nothing that will make the skin return back to its "youthful" look. Oh well. :) I will do the best that I can with what I got.

I did get some St. Ives Renewing Advanced body Moisturizer today at CVS. It was on sale even! Buy one get one FREE!

Last night we went and saw Harry Potter at Midnight. Lots of fun. Movie was good and glad I went even if I really wanted to crawl back into bed today. But I will sleep good tonight I think!

Went to my PCM to check on the knee

More then likely I done something to my ligament on the inside of my knee. Got some new drugs in a form of a cream and a patch to help with the aches and pains so I can get off my NSAID that I take as you can't take NSAIDS after surgery. So rest up for the knee for a few days and then take easy when working out at the gym.

Updated the weight loss ticker today! Since I got weighed at my Dr. office and it said I was at 300lbs with my shoes on...so below 300 I guess. I might get another weight in tomorrow night when I go to support group.

So thats it for now.....wanted to loose this weight to avoid problems like with my knees and bam! It seems I got it right before I had my WLS. Oh well, I feel it will heel.

Confession time

This is confession time for me. I have not been to the gym in almost a week! Between, the kids and hubby home from school last week, busy weekend, yesterday not feeling the best and today waking up with such pain in my knee that brought me to tears at 4am I just don't know what to do! That gym workout looks so painful right now and I had my mind going am I ever going to loose this weight! Is my goal of running a 5k going down the drain?

Two weeks out from my surgery almost and I met my mini goal to be at 300 or below by surgery. I met that...now what? I got to set another goal I guess for the next few weeks to get my mind off of things and to get myself going again. Just don't want to set one and not meet it and get depress is all. So it is a bad circle. Maybe 290 is one I could reach.......

Thanksgiving is next week and I am not sure what I can eat that day. It will be one week out from surgery. I know for a fact that I can not eat my all time favorites so I guess I will have to make some new things for myself. Who knows, maybe some of my family might like them too. I will know what I can eat the day before as my pre-op appointment is that Wednesday. Then I guess the month of December it will be an interesting diet as I will be healing from my surgery.

Found a new friend on ObesityHelp. I guess I should say she found me! Our dates for surgery is the same week and she is also a Navy wife retired like I am! So Nancy I look forward to getting to know you and having someone who is walking in the same shoes at the same time!

Happy National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day!!

Wow if I had known that today was National Clean Out your Frig I would have waited until today! Well there is a few more items in the Refrigerator that must go so out they go. Then, onto the pantry! It is amazing to me that all our eating habits are changing for the better.

I found my true weakness this weekend. Blasted Oreo Cookies! There is just something about those little Black cookies with that white stuff in the middle! Add those to milk (the only true time I had a glass as milk was never my favorite) and I could have eaten an whole sleeve from the bulk box at BJ's! Now, my friends don't worry...Judy still was under control for the most part. I only had two cookies this weekend. Both of them on Saturday one in the afternoon, and one that night. But come Sunday when hubby got them out again, I just gave him a dirty look and sulk in my chair as he sat there with his mug of milk and cookies! So I pat myself on the back for not totally loosing control and my family now knows to be careful when they come into the home.

All and all I am doing GREAT! I don't like to update the weight loss ticker until I go to the Dr. and get the real weight loss reading but I know, I know I am below 300! I am soooo happy about this. Also, Sunday was a great day for a NSV. That is Non Scale Victory. A friend of mine who has not seen me in I guess about a month or maybe a bit longer said YOU LOOK FANTASTIC! Glowing! I just smiled from ear to ear on that! Thanks Anna, you just made my day!

This week I have a feeling will go by slow, but next week is all my pre op appointments and then Thanksgiving. I am not even sure at the moment what I will be able to eat on Thanksgiving, but never the less I am so thankful that I can have this surgery to keep moving forward to better health. So I will have a lot to be thankful.

And it is approved!

Its is approved! I checked this afternoon online and it was approved sometime today! I was so excited to begin the next leg of this trail! The Lap Band will be my next tool in my weight loss. I was so excited that I called my Doctors office to talk with Jamie over there and get my surgery date! So my surgery date is 2 December. A month away. I could have had it on the 29th of this month but I wanted the first Thursday that he had open. So, I have a few appointments the week of Thanksgiving with the Hospital and with the Dr. Then one week later is my surgery!


Now I know this is not going to be easy, and sometimes may even be one of the hardest things I have ever done but I am going to do this! Average weight loss with the band is about 2 lbs a week. Not as fast and by pass surgery, but if you think about it, that is a little over 100 lbs a year! I didn't get here over night, and so it won't come off over night and I am ok with that. I just know what ever I loose is better then where I have been.

It's Pending!

Its Pending! I have been stalking Tricare online to find out what going on and my surgery approval is pending at the moment. At least they have it. Maybe I will have news by the end of the week.

Today, I lifted something heavy and I guess I threw my back out! Ouch! I hope to sleep and feel better tomorrow. Thursday is support group meeting and I am going.