Before....

I just wanted to post a before picture.... Like, full on, Biggest Loser outfit with the sports bra and spandix shorts and everything...cuz I do have some pictures like that that I have taken recently for my own personal use, for comparison purposes...and then I went and saw them again, before I uploaded them and thought... nah, I ain't down!! LMAO...they're pretty scary. I will post some before pictures but I think I will put more clothes on.

Anyways... change of subject...My doctor wants me to continue trying to lose weight with diet and exercise because that shows "good faith" on my part that I will comply with any post surgery diets and exercise regime and it will also just be better for me over all to be smaller when I go in for my surgery but every since I have decided to get this surgery I have been TERRIBLE at dieting and exercising. I hate it. I don't know if it is because I know that I am going to get this surgery and so I am eating like crazy because I know that I won't eat that much after surgery or because it is that I know I will be smaller anyways after the surgery so I don't care how big I get now or because I am just an unhealthy eating burger bandit... what ever it is, I need to nip it in the bud. I need to start practicing what my lifestyle will be post surgery because it will be a major life style change for me.

I have been given some instruction on how it will be after surgery and I have been wanting to incorporate some of the things that I will need to change about my eating habits in to my way of life now but I find it beyond difficult. The main thing is the chewing and the drinking. I am a person who chews 3 MAYBE 4 times and the food is down the pipe. Post surgery, I will need to chew 20 times and then swallow. The purpose for the 20 chews is 2 fold. First it will grind the food up as small as possible so that when it goes in to my small pouch of a stomach it is already broken down as much as possible to make digestion that much easier for my stomach. My nutritionist says that I don't want big bulky chunks for food in my small stomach pouch. Makes sense... Second, the reason why I should chew 20 times is so that it takes me 30 minutes to eat a meal. Taking my time to eat my meals will reduce over eating and throwing up, which apparently is common after this surgery. They say that if we just give our meal TIME to get in there and get settled that we will be full and not stuffed. But people usually eat fast and the food hasn't been able to settle in and let you know that you are full and so your mind says "I'm still hungry" and you keep eating and by the time your stomach processes that it is full and tells your mind that it is full, you would have already over eaten and are feeling crappy and stuffed by this point. SO...if I chew 20 times and eat slow, I will be able to tell when I am full before I am stuffed and I will be helping my stomach in the digestion process by grinding up the food as small as possible.

Another thing I will have to do post surgery is what is called the 15-30-60 rule. It has to do with drinking and eating as well. So 15 minutes before I eat, my nutritionist says that I need to stop drinking. So if I am having lunch at 12 noon, I need to stop drinking any kinds of fluids at 11:45am. After the 15 minutes have passed, I need to take 30 minutes to eat my meal. After my 30 minute meal I should not drink anything for 60 minutes. That is the real challenge. I ALWAYS drink while I eat, I drink before, I drink during and I drink after... I love to drink. I have attempted to do the drinking rule and I just cant do it...I feel like I'm gonna die...in real life. I need to drink...but I will try to slowly incorporate the whole drinking thing. A little bit at a time, with every meal, drink less and less until I am able to do the whole 15-30-60 rule.

Wish me luck.... Ill need it.