Bucket list for weight loss

I'm supposed to keep a journal of my journey.  I just made my first post.  It's scary to put all this out there for anyone to read....keep wondering if people (friends and family) will just shake their heads and roll their eyes, Janet's off on another tangent.

I've got lots of thoughts about what is to come.....thinking of the things that I've never been able to do.

• I'll be able to sit on a chair and not have rolls of fat hang off the edge.
• Even better, when I sit, I'll have a lap for all my grandbabies to sit on.
• I will be able to move more freely and maybe can get my friends daughters to teach me how to move like a dancer, with grace and form - I'm talking about you Shannon Lonnen!
• When I walk will I realize that I'm walking different?  Will it be easier?  Will I feel like I'm going to float into the air?
• What will I do with all that excess skin? Ick!
• I've decided I'm going to participate in the Color Run in Tampa on Dec 2....my girls are going to do it with me and Tim too....celebrating a Mom that can finally move.

Should have done this years ago but I kept telling myself that it was the easy way out and if I took the easy way out the victory would not be as sweet but with all the meetings the last six months I've come to realize it's not the easy way out!  It's going to be hard.  I've spent 6 months with a nutritionist...it ain't gonna be easy.  Three times a day I have 3 oz of meat that I have to cut into dime size portions (3oz measured not weighed) then along with that I can have 2 oz of veggies.  No drinking 1/2 hour before the meal or for a hour after.  Chew each bit 20 times.  Lay the fork down between bites.  Sit at the table, no tv or reading books, etc.

Surely I can do this, I'm a grown up woman. There is one thing that has me concerned...Diet Coke as in, I can't have any, at all, never, ever,again.  No Diet Coke!?  What am I gonna do?  I love that stuff....when it's icy cold to the point it almost has ice crystals and you take that first swig......the bubble and the cold and the taste...that's my idea of Nirvana, kinda.

The surgeon's office called and I'm waiting on a call back.  I have to have a nursing consult over the phone then she sets an appointment with the dr.. for me.  After talking to the dr it should be 2 weeks and then surgery.

I'm scared but looking forward to this next step.  I would covet your prayers for my health and for my family during this time.

In the Love of the Lamb,

Janet