My Journey of a New Me!

These past two days have been a million times easier than the first 4.  Yesterday (Day 5) I woke up and had energy for days. I mean, I have no clue where this energy came from, I don't want it to go away. The only downside to all that energy, no matter how much house work I did, I couldn't go to sleep when I wanted to. I still had my occipital nerve pinched so I was still in a fair amount of pain, but I pushed through it.  Today (Day 6) I got that occipital nerve fixed and I feel amazing. Still a ton of energy. I am managing to get most of my fluids in. I still have to choke down a shake or two. The water is going down smoothly. As I was making mac and cheese for my kids for dinner I didn't even have the urge to take a bite. I have worked and come to far to turn back now!   I have pre-op appointments on the 19 to get all the labs done. The kiddos have been taken care of and Jay is still being super supportive. Even when all I want to do it quit, he tells me no....

Today is July 12, 2017. Today I start my liquid diet for my sleeve surgery. The date for my surgery is July 24th at 9:30 AM. Yesterday I got the news that I am approved for surgery and received my date for surgery. I  cannot begin to tell you how excited I am for this new journey. Some of you might think that I am taking the easy way out. Well, let me tell you one thing, if you think for one second that this is the easy way out, you are sorely mistaken. For roughly two weeks, the only things that I get to "eat" is in liquid form. That means, no sushi, no seafood, no tacos, no hamburgers, no cake etc. Then again, some of you might think that this is going to be too hard for me to do. I can guarantee, that the hard thing that I have to deal with on a daily basis is the pain that is in my back every day. My knees that scream at me when I walk down the stairs, my ankles that give out for no reason at all, causing sprained ankles every month, the constant heachaches that I g...