Background Information

The pre op diet is going quite well, have had a couple of small lapses (maltesers-the lighter way to enjoy chocolate, apparently) but all in all not too bad.  I am kind of fighting with myself at the moment, thinking this is the last week I shall "properly eat" for a long time and  I'm spending it on a low fat diet!  I have in fact spent the last few months pigging out knowing I was going to get the band done but still  I feel robbed.  I think my brain now automatically thinks - not anothoer diet and I instantly feel down, but this time I just keep telling myself it is for my op and I feel much more positive about it.

I have spent the last 24 years on and off diets, you name it I have done it.  I have been all sizes, infact I keep my wardrobe sized and it has varied between a size 8 to a size 24.  At the moment I still have a couple of size 10 items in it but I am wearing a size 20 at the moment so not at my heaviest.  I remember the very first time I joined a slimming club I had 15lbs to lose and I thought it was the end of the world.  Now if I was to lose 8 stone that would bring me down to that first joining weight!!!  So after 24 years of yo-yo dieting I am praying the gastric band will finally help me conquer my weight problem.

Pre Op Diet

Well today is the day I finally start the pre op diet.  As with every other diet I have ever been on (and there have been many) it was a case of I'll start tomorrow.  I should of started 5 days ago but well better late than never.  It is supposed to be a low fat diet to shrink my liver to make the operation easier - obviously easier for the surgeon as if diets were easy for me I wouldn't need the bloody operation in the first place.  But that said I am looking forward to the operation, I am travelling to Belgium to have a gastric band with Dr Chris De Bruyne on the 25th February 2011.  I type the date in full as I believe it will be a very significant date in my life, the beginning of my banded life.  I spent many months (much to the annoyance of my husband) researching all the options for weight loss surgery.  My darling hubby said it was taking over my life and you know what it had.  My weight has been such an issue for me for so many years that just the thought of finally finding a way to help me control the weight did become all consuming.  I felt I could not wait the 2-3 years on the NHS waiting list so ploughed on with finding the right procedure for me (Gastric Band) then looked into which surgeon I wanted to do the operation and whalah here we are finally starting the pre op diet in preparation for my banding in Brussels on the 25th.