Here goes nothing!

This is my first venture into the world of forum posting and blogging, so wish me luck and please check out my blog! 

glad your here it will inspire you alot to help get you to a goal that suits you.  slow and steady wins the race

Welcome MissCricket !! All the best as your journey begins

Hi Miss Cricket,

Nice to hear from you.  I started reading your blog so keep it going.  Are you on the wait list for surgery?

Thanks for reading! I am on the list, have been approved and my surgery is ready to go, but one of the qualifications is that I weigh less than 400lbs :(  That's why my goal is to weigh 400.

Hi MissCricket,

You are at the stage where it still seems like a dream, but, have faith, it will happen!  Keep working at it.  If you haven't already gone to the website (Cdha.nshealth.ca) - the obesity network - check out the sample diets there.  They may be of some help to you.
Good luck

Thanks a bunch! I'm not gonna give up and I appreciate everyone's support.

you will get there miss cricket!! I seen Dr Ellsmere on feb 15th of this year, I was 430.1lbs then, I am 300.2 lbs today... I don't see the team for my one on one until nov 8th.
Have you started the WLP 2 week trial liquid diet. & limited choice diets they give?

I did do the Liquid only diet for two weeks, but fell off as soon as the two weeks was up. I'm a very emotional eater and the slightest thing I can use as an excuse to set me off. I can't believe how much weight you lost so fast!!! You must feel terrific.

MissCricket, dig into any info on Behavioural modification plans. As a part of the Weight Loss program (that clears you eventually for surgery), as I am sure you know, tells you that if you are an emotional eater you have to have a behavioural modification plan written and put into effect by the time you have your one on one with the team. Reasearching this and putting it into effect really helped me in keeping on track since seeing Dr Ellsmere in Feb. Doing what the program outlines and sticking with the program is why I lost the 131 pounds since feb 25th. Basically same amount of weight a person can lose with WLS eh?  If I can do it YOU CAN TOO!!
 
Start taking pics... take them along your journey... all of them will help be reminders and modivation when in stalls and feeling you cant do it. you will have them... we all do. It's a lot of hard work reprogamming our brains and training ourself to be healthy... alot of bad habits to change and replace with good ones. YOU CAN DO IT Miss Cricket!!

The changes I have experience in the last 6 1/2 months are unreal.  There was always that fear that once I lose my weight I would regain it back... I know it isn't going to happen this time... not with the work I have done... wiithin me. Something I never did when losing weight before. Sure I still struggle especially with the memories of how food use to "feel" and taste. but nothing tastes as good as being thin feels...nothing!!! 

Work on you MissCricket.... get your head set on you...start changing those behaviours... that weight required will drop off you and then you get your sleeve to help you even further you will be rockin!!