I am just beginning the pre-surgery process with meeting with the general practitioner and food journaling.  I'm sharing a post I made to my blog last night because I was shocked at how dilluded I have been about what I am eating.  I am wondering how the heck I will make such drastic changes post surgery.  If anyone else is in this stage, please add me as a friend and perhaps we can keep each other motivated.


My post:

I've never tracked calories before but I took a friends advice and downloaded the livestrong app and created a login.  What an eye-opener!

Today I talked with my therapist, Val, about my thoughts on WLS and my hopes for the upcoming months.  We also discussed my fears and especially my fear that I don't have the discipline.  She said to start with the idea that I am choosing to develop discipline and that we'd start by just recording what I eat every day and the mood I have at the time that I eat.   I would then take this to her each week and discuss how, why, when and what I am eating every day.  Oh Lord...I had no idea I was consuming this much each day.  My thoughts before I recorded todays intake on livestrong were "Gee I only ate half a chicken sandwhich for lunch and half my fries...and I only ate one piece of pepperoni pizza for dinner.  I gasped when I saw the caloric and fat intake.  Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, observations...

*See chart below  

April 9th, 2011

Calorie goal: 1,914; calories consumed: 3,765; calories burned: 0
Net calories: 3,765

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Pizza Pizza Pepperoni Pizza	1.00	630	19g	60mg	1,710mg	87g	4g	4g	29g
Herr's Herr’s Baked Potato Crisps	1.00	230	5g	0mg	330mg	42g	4g	4g	4g
Coffee With Coffee Mate	1.00	20	1g	0mg	0mg	2g	0g	0g	0g
Graham Cracker	8.00	1,120	32g	0mg	1,200mg	184g	56g	0g	16g
Sweet Leaf Peach Sweet Tea	2.00	140	0g	0mg	20mg	36g	34g	0g	0g
Snyder's of Hanover Pretzels	0.25	28	0g	0mg	19mg	6g	0g	0g	1g
Perkins Restaurantstaurant & Bakery Chicken Crisp Melt	0.75	1,313	83g	124mg	2,813mg	96g	5g	4g	46g

Hi... Im going thru the process too. Dr. clearances and pre-surgery labs. My date is May 10th for the band. So I truly understand. I have friend requested you, so we keep each other motivated. That why I like this site OH, so much support...

Lynn

Next week I am on Spring break so I go for the all 4 evals next week. My date is June 17 the day after school gets out.

I am waiting to get a surgery date. I have 4 weeks of nutritional seminars in May so it won't be before then. The band is a tool. It will help us to be satisfied with less food. But it won't take away head hunger. That is something we will have to learn to distinguish from real hunger.  We'll support each other through this lapband journey. I hope my insurance approves me, first!!!

Cindy

I am also in the process of getting my surgery date...I go to a seminar Tuesday night and I think by then I will make my decision as to Lap Band or RNY....My Dr seems to think he can get my surgery date fairly quik instead of the 6 month waiting period required by insurance( lets hope) the only thinkg my NUT has set as far as goals is to quit smoking, eat breakfast, and no coke which I start my chantix tomorrow, I am down to a coke a day if that but the breakfast thing is hard for me( always has been) Good Luck to everyone

 Good luck to all of you!  I'm grateful for the support and excited to begin the process.  I did much better on the food intake today than yesterday.   Tracking my meals and snacks on that site is wonderful because it paints a true picture of what I am consuming.  Good luck on your surgery!  I'll send prayers your way!

Hey there I too am in the pre op stage I have had my consultation on March 29th. I am just starting my 6 mo supervised diet i meet with the nurse practitionar  that works with my employer.  I am soooo excited to be begining this stage.  I too started counting calories and was SO shocked on how much I would consume.  I was told about ths ap for my cell phone its a calorie counter but you can also just use their website its myfitnesspal.com it has so many options.  I right now am trying to keep myself around 1200 calories instead of the 3000 plus  i use to comsme.  I am hoping to have surgery october novemberish. 

 

 Tamie

If all goes as planned I want my surgery date to be either the week of Thanksgiving or mid december of next year.  I'll be finsished with my 6 mth w the general practitioner by then.