I am still following the principles of the 17 day diet, basically low carb, high protein, and it has been going well. Today when I stepped on the scale I was down another 3 pounds!! I am now down a total of 13.4 pounds since January 6th when I started watching what I was eating. That puts my weight at 251.8, hopefully next week I can get into the 240s. My goal is to go into surgery at 240 pounds, that gives me 90 pounds to lose post op to get to 150 pounds. I could live at 150 pounds and be happy. Plus having to lose 90 pounds sounds so much better than 100 pounds to me for some reason. Apparently a good portion of weight comes off with the 2 week pre-op liquid diet so I am thinking I shouldn't have any trouble getting to 240 pounds before surgery, only 11.8 pounds to go. I start my liquid diet on March 25th and surgery is April 8th. It seemed like it was so far off and now it feels like it is coming up fast!
Next week is going to busy with appointments. I see the psychiatrist for my pre-op visit on Monday, and I see the dietician and the surgeon on Thursday. These will be my last appointments before surgery. It's starting to feel real now! I had my yearly gyn check up yesterday and when my doctor left the room he shook my hand and told me he looked forward to seeing "less of me" when I come in next year! It will be so neat to see what the change is because I should be about 11 months out from surgery at that point.
I have started a weight loss bucket list. I know that is like the buzz phrase these days and it's kind of cliche to have a bucket list but I think in this instance, for me, it is a good idea to do. I feel like everyone goes to kind of a dark place after surgery and thinks, "what the hell have I done", and I want to be able to have this bucket list to look at to remind myself of all the good things I have to look forward to as the weight starts coming off. I am going to post my bucket list in a text box to the right of my blog and I plan on adding to it as I think of things to add. I am kind of excited that I came up with this idea :)
I will update my weigh in next week and how my appointments went. Until then...
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