CONGRATS Mary!!!! Awesome job. You must feel wonderful. I'm so glad that this thread exists as I am above 50 BMI myself....UGH!!!! I'm looking forward to being part of this thread. I'm new to this whole process too. Had my first visit at the Doc's last week and they say I'm looking at 4-6 months and surgery will happen....YEAH!! I've been started on a diet and they gave me 4 guidelines to follow. One involves cutting my caffeine intake from 10 cups to 4. Which, by the way, I did, but had a severe headache two days later for the whole day and just felt horrible. I'm fine now. I've now completed my first week of my supervised diet. I have to say that I am finding I have more energy.
I know, however, that I will have to deal with "head" issues as I hear others put it. I'm am an emotional eater so need to work on that. Right now I am taking it day by day. I usually snack at night, but my Dr's. office stopped that too. The first night I found myself drinking all of my Water late in the evening and being on this website chatting to help get me through. The hubby was upstairs making popcorn and I could smell it.
Kudos to the person who started this thread. What a great idea!!