Hello!! My Name is Penny and my surgery is in August 2014. I am about 40 days away from my gastric sleeve surgery. I am nervous, anxious and I feel giddy like a high school girl some days. lol... I can't wait I wish the days would hurry up. I have started detoxing. Let me explain. I stopped drinking caffeinated drinks such as; coffee, soda or tea. I have stopped eating high calorie foods such as; McDonald's, Taco Bell, WhataBurger and so on. I am also excising more and adding more protein to my diet. I have started juicing 2X a day and started drinking more water. I really want to be success-full after surgery and I want to recovery quickly.
This is my journey.
6/23/2014 Day 1: I started my Detox of no caffeine and low cab diet. I had the worst Headache all day along with being tired and having a foggy brain. I though I was going to die half way through the day, but I made it and kept thinking this only is going to last three days.
6/24/2014 Day 2: Today was pretty much a repeat of day number one. Horrible Headaches, tiredness, foggy mind and was wanting to stop the madness. I cried by the end of the night because I was so tired and my head was throbbing, but I knew I could not stop because the end was coming soon.
6/25/2014 Day 3: Today I feel a little better. I still have the headache and foggy brain but the tiredness is not so bad. I am not saying I am not tired but I feel like I have more energy than I did on day one or two. Today I went to see the nutritionist. This appointment was set up for my passport to gastric sleeve surgery. She informed me if I put more protein in my diet that I will start to feel better by controlling the sugar spikes because I was just juicing and eating less carbs.
6/26/2014 Day 4: I feel much better today. I am more alert and I have energy. I took the advise of the nutritionist and kept juicing with more protien added to my diet and I don't have a foggy brain nor do I have a headache today. Thank you God!! LOL.. I am feeling much more better. I knew detox would take 3 to 4 days but this detox was terrible!!
I will keep everyone updated on my Journey as it comes my feeling, thoughts, emotions, and more. I have a few appointment coming up in July which they are called my Pass Port to Surgery. I have to got to a group meeting July 2nd for Patients who are going to have the gastric sleeve and for patients who have already have had it. My physiological appointment is on 7/9. I have to have a pap smear done on 7/10 and my last appointment which is a endoscopy with my surgeon. I am pretty nervous about this last appointment. Having to swallow a scope !!! Oh boy I can hardly swallow pills!! I hope I am fully asleep!! LOL
My blood test and a sleep test are both done. So It has been an easy process for me (knock on wood) lol. My insurance dose not require me to be on a supervised weight loss program for any period of time. I started this process back on 5/20. I will have my surgery in August!! I would love to have it sooner but time and appointments keep me from moving up the date. :/ I have been thinking about getting the surgery since January of this year 2014. I waited four months to start the process because I wanted to be sure I wanted the gastric sleeve and now that I know I am giddy like a school girl about it. lol!!!
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