dieting- the final frontier.... PART 2

[sonjajade]

My mom was here and I forgot half of what I wanted to say, so here's the REST of the story!

So at the thing on tuesday, they took my height weight, blood samples, did an exam- everything.  It was like a physical.  They lady told my blood pressure was really good, which is a relief because when I was at my regular doctor's it was high (and I'm already on medication for it, so I was a little panicky about that!).  Official height- 5 feet 3 and a half inches!  That half really counts when you're as short as I am!  Anyway, the nurse who gave me my physical told me that I needed to see a cardiologist because that mitral valve regurgitation might have gotten worse since it was last looked at, and if it's bad I have to have that fixed before I can have the weight loss surgery because apparently it can interfer with how I process anethesia (COM, Sammy, can you verify that?).  Then I have to have an endoscopy (standard procedure) to look inside my stomach, check out the sphincter to the small intstine, check for a hiatial hernia, just have a good look at what is already gong on in there.  They're gonna put me under for that, which scares the bloody hell outta me.  Anesthesia in general weirds me out so ugggh.  Test run for the actual day of durgery for me I guess in that regard.

So- dr. appointments everywhere this month- cardiologist on Wednesday, endoscopy on the following Tuesday, regular dr. for vitals and weigh in on the 22nd, as well as a dentist appointment.  The psychologist hasn't said yay or nay as to whether or not I'm sane or crazy of whatever, I suppose no news is good news.

In the mean time, this 6 month journey is supposed to be travelled on a 1200 calorie diet, high in protein, low fat and low carb.  I'm doing the best I can but damnation is it tough.  I haven't hit the calorie mark yet, I'm mostly trying to switch from high carbs low protein to the other way first.  I figure the calories will be easer to count once I know what it is I'm supposed to actually be eating.  and the more protein I eat the more full I will feel, so maybe it will be a more natural progression.

Still supposed to exercise 3-4 days a week an hour at a time, but I had to skip the Y all last week simply because we were broke and I didn't have the gas to get there without not being able to get to work.

Now that I've eaten a healthy dinner and had my sweet for the day, I'm about to strap walking shoes on and hit the sidewalk to walk this off.

Comments

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

awesome, I will give it a whirl! thanks jen!