My wife and I attended the Bariatric Diatairy and Fitness class yesterday. Wow! Words can’t describe all the emotions that we went through. This surgery is more than I had anticipated. We were there for a total of 4.5 hours and they just touched the tip of the iceberg. I had no idea that this would be so entailed. If you were not scared before, you should be now!! I thought I had done some research but none of the research that I did prepared me for what I am to expect after surgery.

I know that they are not going to throw me to the wolves after surgery. There will be follow-ups. There will be more classes to attend. There are several social media outlets to help you through the tough times as well as other support groups available. I’m just in a state of shock right now. What’s going to be the toughest part is going in the hospital able to eat anything you want and coming out only to be able to drink your food for two weeks. It will be at least eight weeks before I’ll be able to even think about eating solid foods again.

Something else the teacher said. Some of the things that I love to eat before surgery I will not be able to tolerate afterwards. Then again, there will be some foods that I hate now, I will be able to fall in love with. My mindset about food will change she said. 

One thing I just don’t get and maybe once I have the surgery I’ll understand but why do people go through all that they have to go through just to ignore what the doctor says and go back to eating again and gaining everything that they had lost?

Today’s weigh-in: 279.2

Total loss: 1.6

This months goal 275