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This is my first blog ever and it is on my journey to a new life. A life without pain each morning, when I wake up because half of my body when numb, because of my weight. Knowing that my first thought will not be “I will need lots of caffeine today to stay awake because I had trouble sleeping from tossing and turning and having trouble rolling over, or because I was snoring so loud I woke myself up”. Dreading what I am going to wear and will it fit today or have I out grown it. Thinking to myself am I going to make a mistake at work today because I cannot focus because my clothes are too tight. These are the things that I think about before I even get out of bed in the morning. I am so tired of these thoughts. There are many more that happen throughout the day. To help me with all the issues listed and many more I have decided to get the gastric sleeve. I have been to the orientation and got all the information and went to the free consultation to find out if I qualify for the surgery, and I do. At the free consultation I received a free body analysis where I found out a lot about my body that I did not know. My extremities weights are torso (head to stomach) 67.2 pounds, right arm is 8.82 pounds, left arm 8.22 pounds, right leg 21.34 pounds and the left at 21.25 at this time I weighed in at 263.9. My BMI was 40.1. My lean muscle was at 142.6 and my body fat mass was 121.3 pounds. Since this weigh in on 11/12/12, I have gained much more. I currently weight on my scale at home (which is always 5 pounds less than the Doctors office) said 275.6 pounds I have gained 11 pounds since then. I believe it is because I quit smoking and snack more at night, and have not tried a new yo-yo style diet. I am waiting for the surgery. Figure I better enjoy it now because soon I will not be able to. Today was different I did not want to enjoy eating large amounts of food. I wanted the weight loss to start. I only have a few clothes that fit me that I feel comfortable in to go to work that I am feeling depressed. I recently thought it was because of the holiday season, but it was not. It was me tired of being tired of being FAT. I am ready to get this weight off and I need all the help I can get. If that means major surgery; than that is the extreme in need to do. I am making the call on Monday December 31, to schedule my consultation with the surgeon to get it started. I am afraid of all the things that can go wrong, but I want a longer more for filling life than the one I have know. I am getting tired and could go on and on about how I feel. I am in hopes that I will keep the blog up and I am wanting to do one on youtube so that my family can see me and my weight loss, and maybe help them and others like me that struggle daily with food. Tata for now.
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Step 2

Yesterday was my second step to a new life. I had my first consultation with the surgeon and gat a new body analysis done. This is the body analysis that they will be sending into the insurance company. So for starters I am now at 274.3. I have lost a pound. Wahoo! So I am now to start taking my chewable daily vitamins, no more capsules. I will finish off my bottle that I have and then full on chewable. So I was given a binder for reference and was told to start reading it. It is a guide to what is to come from now to the rest of my life. I have briefly flipped through it and tell in detail al the steps that I need to complete. I am hopeful that it will answer question I may have as things keep progressing. We talked about a surgery date. Right now we have it a projected date of February 11, 2013. Wow that is so close. I am already signed up for the pre-op orientation with the hospital February 5th and I need to have my psych evaluation and schedule with the nutritional assessment done by the end of the month to have it by our projected date. I will be calling on Monday to get all those done. Once those are complete and the insurance approves, “we are green for, go Houston!!!” I getting really excited to know that soon, getting around will not take a ton of effort to complete. I can’t wait. :wub:
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4+ weeks

Hello Blog,   Sorry I have been away. I have been traveling for work this week and the next. After living out of a bag in a hotel room for a week I began to ponder how I am going to eat during the next training. There was a group of us that went and we had fun, or at least I did and realized that in March when we do this again I will be eating total differantly. I wonder what other took with them and what they ordered to stay on point. I will be talking to the doctor and nutritionist about these concerns.   I will go in on Monday January 14th for my psych evaluation. Where I will be on a "Three hour tour" of my mind. I do hope that I do not hit a storm and get stranded on the island named after a clutz(Gilligan's Island). I am sure that the evaulation is to ensure that I am mentally fit to have the surgery.   I will meet my nutritionist on Tuesday January 22 to go over my goals and what I need to start doing to be ahead of the game. I do not like surprises when it comes to my food. Plus a great co-worker of mine is going to teach me some easy recipies for veggies to season them so I might actually eat the darn miscolored food items.   I will post in my status bar on if I pass the eval or get stranded on the island. Ta ta for now
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