Imminent surgery
Well, the day is almost here. Friday at 8:45 AM at Fair Oaks Inova
hospital with Dr. Osvaldo Anez. I will try to give a report afterwards
(whenever that ends up). Something curious happened yesterday, and I
didn’t quite know how to react. The last time I was weighed was on a
digital scale about 4 months ago. Astoundingly, I was up to 441. So
for the last four months, at all my tests, doctor’s appointments I have
been using that as the weight (not many doctor’s have digital scales and
if they do they don’t go high enough. Not even the surgeon I ended up
with has a digital scale. Well, the first surgeon that I had said that
I could come by and weigh any time. So, I figured I would go in and
get a final tally before the surgery to see how much I would lose. I
figured that I would probably be about the same, or higher. Well, it
turned out that I had lost 30 lbs in that time. It is interesting
because it was lost without trying or being aware that I was doing it.
In fact, if anything I would say that I almost consciously didn’t diet,
because I wanted to savor for the last time certain foods.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting, and not sure what to think about
it. I wonder what dynamic was at work that caused it. I know that some
surgeons require people to lose a certain amount prior to surgery, but
that wasn’t the case here. I guess I got a head start.
Danny
April 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
I know with me, the harder I tried to lose weight, the more I wanted to eat.
When I wasn’t obsessing about it all day, I didn’t think about food as much.
Thankfully, those mental games are over for me since the surgery. That’s been
one of the biggest reliefs for me. Good luck with your surgery!
Jen in Naperville
259/187/150
April 20th, 2006 at 10:20 am
I think that when we’re MO, a lot of our eating is just reflexive. Head
hunger. Maybe once you started focusing on your eating and really savoring it,
you found yourself 1. satisfied sooner, and 2. not eating reflexively. That
would be my guess. But it’s not uncommon, Danny, for people to lose weight
before their surgery. Didn’t happen to me <G>.
Pam in Niceville
April 21st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
good luck he his my doctor i had my surgery 7/25/03. just keep your head up and
put god first it would be alright.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting, and not sure what to think about
it. I wonder what dynamic was at work that caused it. I know that some
surgeons require people to lose a certain amount prior to surgery, but
that wasn’t the case here. I guess I got a head start.
Danny