Surgery Date!!!
Congratulations! I think I started walking to try to get in better shape. By this time I was concentrating on eating a lot of protein...in between having "last suppers". Stay busy! :)
--gina
--gina
5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
******GOAL*******
Starting BMI between 35 and 40ish?
Join us on the Lightweights Board!
DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
Walk
Blow up balloons (to get your lungs strong)
Get your vitamin levels up so you won't deplete your reserves
Find a recliner to borrow or buy for post op recovery at home
Get a timer for setting to remind you to eat/take vites/take your temperature
Have a thermometer
Listen to recordings like "Successful Surgery" by Belleruth Naparstek - (surprisingly one of the best things I did before surgery)
Clean everything/pay bills ahead of time - the less you have to do for 6 weeks post -surgery the better
Read 100 pages of OH posts
Look at before/after pics - I did this when I would get scared and couldn't think straight. It reminded me that so many people had taken this leap of faith before me and looked really happy afterwards
Cheers,
Cathy
Blow up balloons (to get your lungs strong)
Get your vitamin levels up so you won't deplete your reserves
Find a recliner to borrow or buy for post op recovery at home
Get a timer for setting to remind you to eat/take vites/take your temperature
Have a thermometer
Listen to recordings like "Successful Surgery" by Belleruth Naparstek - (surprisingly one of the best things I did before surgery)
Clean everything/pay bills ahead of time - the less you have to do for 6 weeks post -surgery the better
Read 100 pages of OH posts
Look at before/after pics - I did this when I would get scared and couldn't think straight. It reminded me that so many people had taken this leap of faith before me and looked really happy afterwards
Cheers,
Cathy