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Greetings to all my buddies.  I have been away from this site for far too long.  I've been busy with the renovations of my house and work.  My battle is going well.  Since I posted last I've met with my primary care physician, the nutritionist, the psychologist, the medical doctor on the weight loss team and just last week the surgeon.  I also completed my 5 weeks of mandatory behavior change group.  What a team these people are.  I feel prepared now to take this on and win (or lose) big!   When I met with he surgeon this week he gave me some positive "vibes" that I could get on the December schedule for surgery.  The team at the Obesity Consult Clinic (The OCC) meet every Wednesday to discuss the progress of patients and schedule surgical procedures.  I may learn of my December surgery date as early as next week!!!!   In the mean time I continue to lose my weight.  I have roughly 20 pounds to lose before the surgery -- my nutritionist, and I feel this is very doable!!  I'll keep you all posted more regularly.  That's all for now!!!

I'm having a hard time sticking to my plan of loosing my initial weight.  Yesterday was not a good day -- it ended with a later than normal ending to the work day which lead to the, "oh let's just order Chinese food for dinner because it's so late" call.  I could have stopped after one plate of food...but I didn't.

I have to keep track of what I eat and not delay changing my eating patterns.  It's no surprise that I love food...maybe I'm just having pre-mature separation anxiety with food...

I started my journey (for the second time) on September 4th.  I went back to the Obesity Consult Center (the OCC) and met with the shrink for the second time.  I had been there 18 or so months earlier but was not convinced that WLS was the answer for me.

After thinking long and hard, I now know that it is.  I will be aggressively working to loose my initial weight so I can get a surgery date scheduled before the end of this year...stay tuned, there's a whole lot more to come!