The Final Countdown

My new journey has begun.

I have decided to get bypass surgery. It wasn't an easy decision. I look at all of the time I've spent trying to lose weight, and then look at my family history (as lengthy as it is scary) and know that I'm doing the right thing. As proud as I am that fourty pounds seperates my current weight from my alltime high, it doesn't remove the fact that I have about a hundred more to lose.

I cannot wait to be skinny(er).

My best friend and I are doing it together. Everything from the initial seminar we went to the other night, to the consultation we go to on the eighteenth of October. After we meet with the surgeon, we go like hamsters on a wheel to the evaluations we have to undergo (both nutritional and psychological). A full day that will respresent the first step on the road to our new selves.

Again, I cannot wait.

When I spoke with my primary doc about it the other day, I actually almost cried when she gave me her support. It was like a confirmation that I was making the right move. I go see her on the fifth and will have all of the blood drawn that I need for the pre-surgery hoops I have to jump through.

The process is lengthy, but now that the wheels are turning (albeit slowly), I am looking more and more forward to it.

This will serve as my journal, a place where I'll record my thoughts, fears, anxieties and frustrations that come along with the ride.

Stay tuned for more. ;)