Going to try to start an exercise program

Well, its a couple days over a month, and I will have had my surgery.  My body is in poor shape physically, but I am going to have to try to get a exercise routine in place.  I believe I am going to start out by walking, and we have a WII so I have rented a dancing game, I figured that would be a fun way to get some exercise in, and still be able to find a seat if I get to weak. 

My bestie Andi and I are working on trying to get a support group together for this area.  We are an hour away from everything, including the office where our doctors are at, so we wanted to have a group for the people here... Now we just have to find a place to have the meeting at once a month.  Sure hope we can.  Anyway, that's all that's going on right now, still on my prescription of phentermine, and still loosing good with that. I am hoping to be down as small as possible before the surgery date.  Good luck to all out there that are still trying, or have had it already, and working on the goal.

40 pounds off since my first appointment back in April

I went to my MD. yesterday, for my normal check up, due to having high bp, being diabetic, injured knee, and back, along with being overweight, I have to go to my regular doctor two or three times a month..  Yesterday when i weighed in, I had dropped 40 pds since beginning of my journey.  Of course 40 pds is a drop in the bucket, but its 40 pds off, not on. I am so please and proud of myself.  I only need to drop another 9 pounds to be down to the weight Dr. Williams wanted me to be at to be safe for the BPD surgery.  Of course I changed my mind with that one, and am having the normal gastric bypass instead, but to me, this is a big stepping stone to my weight loss that I have conquered.

I started the 800 cal diet early

I decided that today I would start the 800 calorie diet I had spoke of in a earlier post.  I went with special K shakes and bars though, instead of the NLBC supplements to start with, because this way is cheaper.  Not as healthy as Dr. Boyce's supplements, but its more affordable for me right now.  I was able to get the correct amount of shakes/bars for the day that the centers diet plan calls for, with only 60 extra calories a day in it, using the special K brand.  I am hoping I can stay on it until surgery date, in efforts to drop extra weight before the surgery.  Keep me in your prayers that I can do this.

As the days tick by

Time to have my surgery is going to be here before I know it.  I am trying to get myself mentally ready for my life change.  No sugar, fine we do not eat it anyway, No soda, OK we do not drink that much either so giving it up will not be a problem. It is going to be odd not to be overweight though.  I have been big my entire life, from toddler up throughout the years, so actually loosing the weight, and being healthy and fit, believe it or not, its a big pill to swallow.  I do not know what to think, how its going to feel.  Its things that are silly I know, but it is all part of the anticipation and excitement of this second chance at life.  To me, that's exactly what this is, see my life as I know it now is a poor excuse for one.  Sure I have things that others may not, I have a wonderful set of loving caring parents, a absolutely terrific husband, I have a home, a wonderful little pug puppy that steals my heart daily, but the things most of you have at my age, I have lost.  I have lost the ability to walk, to run, to go to amusement parks with my family, or to the pool to swim.  I have lost all these things due to my weight problems, and my back and knee problems that have been brought on from my knee.

 I honestly can not imagine what life is going to be like.  I have my mind set that the two week no food diet will be totally doable, and that I will make it threw that without any problems. I have to get my mind thinking that, because if I do not, then I am going to be suffering those two weeks, and I do not want to go into this suffering. I am going to start replacing meals with protein shakes now, that way when it gets time to have to do it full blast, it will not be that difficult.

 My friend and I are trying to check into getting a support group started here in our community for the people here that have had, or are thinking of having the weight loss surgery, because we feel like we deserve to have a group to attend to, and we do not want to have to drive for an hour and a half to get to it.  Hope the office can help us get that going.

 So far the diet pills are still really helping me control my appetite, I fill up way faster, and stay full alot longer, so that has to be helping me to drop so weight now.