Current Status: Waiting on case manager to submit paperwork to insurance company.
I am still working on losing weight, though the storms that have gone thorugh is making that idfifcult. Knees ache the most but all joints are aching. Only got 17 minutes in on the treadmill yesterday, we’ll see how the rest goes.
I posted a request for personal trainer referrals and got several, so I am going to look into that.
I’ve got a Magic Bullet blender so getting through the 4 weeks of post op diet is going to be good.
I’m also trying to do liquid diet as much as possible between now and then, and keeping it as low carb as possible. I really feel the difference after having lost over 7 pounds in the last month so that helps. Not sure what the surgeon will say but in my presurgery meeting with the TLC Edge Consultant, she said to try to lose as much as possible before the surgery and that the postop is cruicial in preventing slipping. She also said that dropping the Diet Coke was cruicial too.
Expectations: The dietician I am seeing drives me a bit nuts. She was going on about how next year this time I should weight 170 pounds. I don’t think so, that means a weight loss of around 140 pounds and I really don’t think that is a good idea.
I’d be happy with 250 pounds in one year from now.
I also don’t want to hear things like off medications, off CPAP, etc. Though I would LOVE a reduction in gastric reflux, I doubt that will happen for a long time, because I still has reflux with liquid diet only. I think most of the reflux is the weight I am carrying.