Not to excited !
Hi Michelle,
Sorry about your not being excited. We have surgery on the same date. Which is just in a little over 2 weeks. Have you gotten ready for the big day, i.e. food for after the surgery, vitamins etc.? I am just about ready, i just have a few more things to buy such as pudding, broth, and last minute things. I have my powdered and liquid protein supplements and my vitamins and that type of thing. Someone gave me the idea of t-shirt dresses to wear that will be loose fitting for after the surgery so not to have anything to tight on the incision, I need to get that also. I am a little nervous but think it will be the best thing in the long run. I find that keeping busy helps.
I wish you good luck and will keep you in my prayers. If you would like to chat just let me know. I hope your excitement comes back now that you are so close to the date.
I know what you mean. I have this irrational fear that I'm going to be the only one this doesn't work for. Like my body is some alien construct which doesn't work like other people's and despite their best efforts, I'm going to GAIN 50lbs.
But you (and I) have to remember that we've been comparing ourselves all these years to people who aren't like us......and HERE, we are finally amongst our peers. Everyone else who's had this surgery has a sluggish metabolism, and they've had bad habits, and they didn't exercise as much as they could have growing up. They've sat next to someone who ate chocolate & smoked cigarettes and ate platefuls of pasta without gaining an ounce. They've watch other people eat the same foods they do, and lose 40lbs while they either lost 6lbs or didn't lose anything at all.
We've ALL been there. But that's not where we are headed. This surgery is performed on over 100,000 people a year, and statistics show that most of them are successful at losing and keeping off a significant portion of their excess weight. Maybe not ALL of it - but certainly better than anything we've ever done in the past.
And there are those who did ALL the right things, and worked their tool for everything it was worth, and made goal and stayed there. And they ALL started as Morbidly Obese or they wouldn't have qualified for surgery.
There's nothing wrong with being nervous. You'd be more foolish to approach this fearlessly than you are to approach it with some trepidation. It's a serious mind & body altering event - just like birth. Remember when you were born, the first two things that happened were you got kicked out of your place of comfort and then spanked.
It's just life's way of helping you metamorphisize. :butterfly: (----- Picture a beautiful butterfly there since we don't have an icon for it.
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