So, I guess this is more than a year of loss since I am beginning before the beginning of the year. This will be a story of loss... My plan is to lose weight. Not particularly startling since I weigh nearly 400#. I have tried most everything to lose, been on one diet or another since I was 9 y.o.
Each time I told myself, "This time will be different. I'll lose it and never find it again." Well, I often lost it, sometimes didn't but, I kept trying. Now, after CHF, 3 strokes and, a diagnosis of diabetes I have a real reason to lose and never look back. All that bad stuff happened in 2003. At that time I didn't weigh my least but around 275#. Having become newly disabled 38 y.o. what else did I have to do but sooth my poor sick self with my best friend... food. I had been in the restaurant business for almost 25 years so I knew food well. I had successfully, almost, switched careers to become a teacher of English and social studies. Things were "lookin' up" then, I got sick. Even with diabetes looming I managed to eat, sometimes right but, mostly wrong. By '04 I had risen to about 325#. I decided that drastic measures needed to be taken. I had heard about bariatric surgery, it scared me. I knew someone who had died from complications of such surgery. But, I began looking into similar strategies to lose. Now, 5 years later the surgery is proven and now my limited (disabled remember) resources are being supplemented by medicare(they finally see the benefit of a healthier me and the possibility that I may, at 44, still have something to give to society.)
Surgery is set for 14 Jan. 09. So on New Years Eve 08 I begin my 2wk pre-op diet.
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