The Medical Bariatric Weight Loss Program Is Not Starting in January
It's starting in a month or so. The wait list for the medical bariatric weight loss program is shorter than expected, so I got a call yesterday to see the doctor today for my first assessment. After the medical history review, the assessment was some frank discussion about eating and exercise habits.
For once I was not embarrassed by my answers, since I have been trying to follow some program. He was impressed that after the initial surgery information session that I took it upon myself to start getting used to SlimFast at least once per day. The actual program uses OptiFast and only OptiFast four times per day for twelve weeks before other foods are reintroduced, and the use of Optifast is reduced.
My emotional eating is still an issue, although it is less frequent and that's what I really have to control and conquer with this program.
The program starts sometime between late-September to mid-October. After the first 12 weeks, there are 14 more weeks of medical supervision. I still have to deal with the half-day unpaid or vacation I'll need to to take, but with the program starting now, I will not lose most of 2014's vacation. At most it should be five days (10 weeks), if the program starts mid-October.
I am cautiously optimistic at the moment. I'm still wondering about psychological effects within myself with a body shape change, as well as perception by others as the physical person they know will change. That's where the whole "chub attraction" for certain others I know fits in. "Less than 300" in my timeline is pre-2000. I can only think of two LJ friends who have ever seen me at a weight less than 300 pounds. No-one at work and no-one in my more recent social contacts have seen me below that weight.
To be sure, I am focused first on my better health and mobility and the positive effects that will come from that. It just means dealing with the other stuff I mention above, which I will do. how I will act and react is all theoretical until I start seeing the results and finally let myself believe that I can maintain this.
For once I was not embarrassed by my answers, since I have been trying to follow some program. He was impressed that after the initial surgery information session that I took it upon myself to start getting used to SlimFast at least once per day. The actual program uses OptiFast and only OptiFast four times per day for twelve weeks before other foods are reintroduced, and the use of Optifast is reduced.
My emotional eating is still an issue, although it is less frequent and that's what I really have to control and conquer with this program.
The program starts sometime between late-September to mid-October. After the first 12 weeks, there are 14 more weeks of medical supervision. I still have to deal with the half-day unpaid or vacation I'll need to to take, but with the program starting now, I will not lose most of 2014's vacation. At most it should be five days (10 weeks), if the program starts mid-October.
I am cautiously optimistic at the moment. I'm still wondering about psychological effects within myself with a body shape change, as well as perception by others as the physical person they know will change. That's where the whole "chub attraction" for certain others I know fits in. "Less than 300" in my timeline is pre-2000. I can only think of two LJ friends who have ever seen me at a weight less than 300 pounds. No-one at work and no-one in my more recent social contacts have seen me below that weight.
To be sure, I am focused first on my better health and mobility and the positive effects that will come from that. It just means dealing with the other stuff I mention above, which I will do. how I will act and react is all theoretical until I start seeing the results and finally let myself believe that I can maintain this.