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Tentative surgery date of August 28, 2017!!!

Well it's about bloody time. I'm down a couple of pounds...257 lbs from 260 lbs after almost a month. By the way does anyone snack on nuts like almonds or peanuts or cashews or sunflower seeds...I know there fattening but aren't they healthy fat ?

Happy Thursday! Nothing much to update on, I'm just writing to keep up the habit. I've been plugging away at food/protein/water goals. Going grocery shopping tomorrow, so next week I'll be (slowly) introducing new foods to my sleeve. I still feel a good amount of fatigue which currently is my biggest frustration. There are people who reported feeling their energy come back by now, and while I have had a steady increase, I still get fatigued pretty quickly. Fingers crossed that I'll turn a corner soon!

Day 15 (pre op diet) I was thinking I might be able to get down the road a bit with my work pants.....I haven't weight myself since that last time but my pants are def getting baggier. Today I feel really achy- in my leg muscles. Almost like burning. Not sure why but not feeling it. This Friday I am going to a shrimp boil and I am dreading it, mostly because I don't want to have to explain over and over why I am not eating. I also have to make a dish which stinks because I am making Jalapeno cheese cornbread and I cannot test it! Officially one week today until my surgery. The hospital called me and I have to be there at 6am on Wednesday! For awhile it seemed time was moving slow, but now with my being excited and anxious I feel like whoa it is around the corner! I told my husband this morning on the way to work I feel empty....but in a good way. My tummy is less bloated and I feel better. My sister is having her baby any day now! I hope before my surgery! <3

26 more days until my revision to RNY!

So today while I was watching this female Asian longhorned beetle oviposite her egg I was thinking about the science behind WLS. How many experiments aka..clinical trials have been done, are still being done, and will be done in the future to help doctors figure out the complex mysteries of this disease we call obesity. It blows my mind to even try to think of all the variables involved in the design of these trials. My research focuses on this beetle, a much simpler organism, and yet it can take days of thought and reading current published research to determine the variables that need to be considered and controlled during a planned experiment. Sometimes we even design pre-experiments just to figure out whether something is going to effect something else before we run the main experiment. All of this thinking has made me realize how little we really know. Why has my diabetes gone into remission after surgery? This surgery has done what following a low carb diet alone could not do, normalize my blood sugars minus any medications. I haven't had time to read all of the published literature on this subject, but I would like to. My mind is trained to looked for patterns in data so of course this is the way I am approaching my journey after this surgery. I am logging everything I eat, drink, and my exercise. I will export the data to excel and graph it to see if I can figure out how my body works now in relation to theses things and weight loss. I know for some people, maybe most, this is not something they would want to do. It may seem excessive and time consuming, but I hope to learn something that will be useful to me during the maintenance phase. I am increasingly more convinced that low carb is going to be the best diet for me to follow long term. I just don't see any reason to test the waters when I am doing so well right now. I have zero cravings for sugar, bread, rice, pasta... my energy levels are good, my bs are excellent, and I am losing weight. These are my musings for today, 5 weeks post-op.