Hi everyone,

I have already started my 6 month documented weight management or whatever its called. I am waiting to talk to my Dr. about the sleep study I completed couple of weeks ago and hopefully with that my insurance will pay for my gastric sleeve. I am 46 years old and my current weight is 254.8 according to the scales yesterday. I am 5.5 1/2 so my BMI also qualifies me for the procedure. I am trying to get all the research I can on what I need to prepare myself mentally and physically for this new life change. I have only been overweight for the last 10 years and I am miserable!!!!!! I am at my biggest size ever. I just hope these next 6 months goes by fast........ until then I will continue to follow everyone's post and hopefully learn a few things along the way.

I do not know how it is that each day seems to go by so slowly when you are adjusting old habits and ignoring the temper tantrums that your body is throwing because it wants its junk edibles back. (Sorry, I can't call Twinkies and soda pop "food"). But collectively they go by so fast. At 15 months out, the agnony of that inconvenience is hard to remember. This human machine that I live in operates so much better with the proper fuel and diligent maintenance.

Hang in there. All the pre-op stuff and the first couple of months post-op are a right of passage into a healthier place. Even on the pre-op diet (mine was 3 months) I began to feel better. My body was getting the best nutrition it had experience ever, plus I lost 26 pounds. I feel a vitality that I have never had before. I was 62 but felt 90 - a real bad 90. Now I feel like I was designed to feel and am much more alert (thanks to getting off of nine meds), limber, sexy, and happy. The journey has been sooooooo worth the sacrifice.