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Today I am finally not feeling so tempted by all the food around me. My family has tried to be conscientious but I still smell their food: grilled chicken, rice, veggies, corn dogs, bread and butter, meaty stew, etc...

Today I feel okay. I have a huge NSV. I bought this super nice bra I dont even know how many years ago, and it just barely fit. It was at a high end lingerie store. I bought it because I was traveling and didn't bring a nice bra and we were going out to a dinner or something fancy. I bought it in a hurry. Anyway, it's super soft. I've kept it in my drawer for years - gained a lot of weight after that and haven't been able to wear it. Today I put it on and it fit perfectly. 

I've only lost 20 lbs since starting the pre-op diet to today, but I feel like the top half of my body is much slimmer. Come on, bottom half! Just kidding, I am patient.

My main problem so far has been the gas pains. I feel like I have to be walking all the time for it not to hurt so bad. Or lying down flat, that's tolerable too. I guess there are pockets of time after I walk that it doesn't hurt so bad. All in all I guess I am doing okay.

I saw my mom when I got out of the hospital. I felt like the whole experience was traumatic (I'll probably post about it when it's not so fresh on my mind). I told her, "I don't recommend anyone doing a gastric bypass. It was hell." In retrospect, I wish I hadn't told her that, because really it wasn't THAT horrible (I guess?), and she has always, always had trouble with her weight. So in the future, if she gains back what she has lost just recently from weight watchers, she might remember that I told her not to get an RNY... I don't know. I'll tell her when I see her over Christmas that it isn't as bad as I've made it out to be.

The major thing I was disappointed in is that I didn't get very much pain medicine at all once I was released from the hospital. And even when I was there, it didn't seem like they had me on a very good dosage. Like I was always, always asking for more. So what they gave me, these little sublingual pills, I spread them out as much as I could tolerate (I didn't take them as soon as I could have each time), but they only lasted 3 days out of the hospital.

And here we go - Christmas holidays! What will I do to avoid all the food? Take a walk? Be anti-social? Stay in my room? That's the only thing I am worried about.

I am one week and a day into the pre-op diet. My surgery is next Wednesday! I am beyond excited to be doing this. 

So, my surgery center has me on the full liquid diet for 2 weeks for pre-op. The first week it was OK to have 4 oz of lean meat a day, so I had a small chicken breast every day. It was heavenly. This is my first day to not have the meat, and I'm doing great. I sort of cheated with my chicken, by putting it on top of spinach and kale, but as far as I can tell many people are doing salads as part of the pre-op. I drizzled a teaspoon of olive oil and a teaspoon of vinegar over the salad. I think that's OK. But from here on out, no more chicken or lettuce.

We can have 0% plain greek yogurt, so I've added that to smoothies, or had a bowl of it with some splenda mixed in. Today I made a pot of chicken broth using "Better than Boiullion" and added some greek yogurt to that. It's super creamy. I can do this!

So, about my surgery. My insurance won't cover it so I'm goin to Mexico. BUT I found my surgeon through the Bariatric Center of Excellence website. There are only 4 surgeons in Mexico who are listed as surgeons of excellence or centers of excellence. I'm going with Dr. Manuel Garcia Garza in Monterrey. It's far from the cheapest option (costing a little under $9,000), but much much cheaper than doing the RNY here in the states without insurance (over $20,000).

So far on the pre-op diet I've lost 7.5 lbs.

I think that covers everything!