Full Steam ahead

Well I obviously am not the best at keeping this thing updated. I guess that is ok because I am a useless bloke!!!

So I saw the surgeon on the 12th and it all went really well. Nothing special needs to be done and he is more than happy to perform the surgery.

I guess the only thing that I will be doing is optifast for a little while longer than most people.

I understand that the majority of people go on the optifast diet for about 2 weeks prior to the surgery but I have been asked to go on it for about 3-4 weeks beforehand.

I am not looking forward to this stage as I have been on that crap before and hated it. I always start off really good on it but then after a few weeks of it I get the shits and start avoiding it. I am sure I will go well this time as I know it is only for a month a the most, I can usually ensure that my will power will keep me going for that long.

So the surgery is set down now for the end of May, I have a few appointments I need to have before then with dieticians and psychologists etc.

I must admit that I have been very scared of the upcoming operation due to my size, but since meeting with the surgeon that fear has all but gone, he was very comforting.

I have completely lost the plot with my eating at the moment, I think I know in my head that I only have about a month of "normal" eating left before I go onto the optifast and then the surgery after that. It is worth nothing that my "normal" eating habits are obviously subjective to myself, they would be considered far from normal for a normal bloke off of the street.

I now need to organise my leave from work and arrange for some family to come into to town while I have the surgery, as none of my immediatley family live here they will travel over to stay with my wife and I so we have a support network during this time.

Not sure if I should be doing this or not but I am really spending a lot of time daydreaming about exactly what I will do when I am a more normal size, the list is long.

This will sound silly to most people but the thing I am looking forward to first and foremost is to go into the big mans store and buy clothes, there is nothing more depressing than only being able to by a few shirts for your waredrobe as the big mans store only stocks a few different shirts in my size, once I drop a few sizes the range of clothing really opens up (despite the fact that it is still a big mans store).

I guess my next real post will be next month when I start the optifast. Next month I will aim to list an accurate starting weight and measurements including clothing sizes etc.

Thanks to the couple of people that have posted, it is really cool to know that I have people following this, please feel free to contact me by leaving posts. Or send me a message if you would like my email address (I am not sure what the protocol is on this but I have read that I am not suppose to leave my email address posted as I think people use it for spam etc).