The First Day of the Rest Of My Life

So I just heard from the weight loss clinic and my appointment with the doctor is next Wednesday July 10th at 10:30. This begins it all. After meeting with the doctor I have no more excuses. It will be time to get down to business. Oh crap!  But I know I can do it. I will need to lose 5% of my body weight starting that day and learn to eat completely different. Right now I have been playing with the chewing a raisin 40 times but it becomes serious then. And I start to eat less. I usually only eat 2 meals a day and then junk sometimes during the night. I rarely do the afternoon craving unless there is something in the house I enjoy but night times are hard. And soon it will be 5 VERY SMALL meals a day so I have to get used to that. The thing is I know that once I see the weight loss it will be an inspiration to keep going. How can you lose bunches of weight and not have it inspire you to keep going? So next Wednesday is the day... It can't come soon enough!

The 4th of July

So today is the 4th of July and I'm tired. Sleepy tired but also tired of who I am. I am so ready to start this new journey I am on. And yet I find myself using excuses to starting. Right now my excuse is I haven't seen the doctor yet so the journey hasn't officially begun yet. But it has. I should be doing my "homework" of chewing a raisin 10, 20, 30 and 40 times before swallowing and eating slower. I am a fast eater. I always have been. I always wondered if in a past life I was a farmers wife. Why do I say that? Well back in the old days the farmhands were up and working from dawn to dusk and eating quick to get back to the fields and the womenfolk cooked enough for a small army and that is what I do. I always make too much food and eat fast as if I am on a hot seat. But my homework is to slow it down. I plan on using a small egg timer to see if I can chew until the time runs out. It is not something that can change overnight I am sure but hey as I heard in orientation "digestion starts in the mouth" and it is important... So I will do my homework no matter how hard it is.

My New Journey

So today I decided to start a blog about the journey I am starting. I am going to have Gastric Bypass and hopefully loose a bunch of weight. Hopefully! It never dawned on me that my insurance would cover my surgery. But I found that it does and it seems like a chance that I can not pass up. 

I am learning all the things I will need to do even before the surgery. Oddly enough even loosing about 20 pounds. As well as 2 weeks before I have to be on a clear liquid diet. Really? If I could do a liquid diet to loose weight wouldn't I have done it? But this time I have a reason. 

This surgery is not the magic pill that we all want to find. There is a bunch to do to make it work but I plan on doing it and doing it right. And the fact that I am excited makes all the difference. Now to just get started......