Having a Liquid Dinner

This meant something else entirely in my college years.

So, popping in for a quick update! I have a day, time, and location for my surgery! This coming Friday 4/19 at 7:30am, I will be sliced and diced at Forest Park Medical Center in Dallas. I've heard it's supposed to be one of the top 20 most beautiful hospitals in the nation, so I will be sliced and diced in style.

My pre-op diet so far has been a low cal, very low carb diet that started back on Monday. Since then, the combo of subsisting on air and attitude and workouts with Mr Jovan Johnson and Miss Erica Rivers has led me to drop 12 and 1/2 pounds already!! I've been strongly debating coming out with the exact numbers, but quite frankly I just still feel a little sad and embarrassed by the number, so for now we just celebrate the number 12 and 1/2.

How many more times can I say the word number? Lord this post should be in the department of redundancy department.

See what I did there? Pure wit even on 20 grams of carbs per day.

So, the great news is that I've finally seemed to break the carb cravings cycle. Well, that was until I started to read the latest copy of Cooking Light Magazine. Then I realized I still shouldn't be allowed within 100 yards of a grocery store just yet. The first couple of days I felt really run down. I mean like come home and head straight to bed kind of run down. That, and I was trying to remove myself from all of the temptation in the kitchen. Truly. This last week was kinda like those final scenes in Ray where he's detoxing from his heroin addiction. But by the grace of God, and one or two late night jam sessions, I made it out.

Now...the whole point of the pre-op diet is to reduce the fat collected in the patient's liver. Gross, right? But fatty livers are hard to move out of the way to get to the actual stomach to perform surgery, so my job is to be as low carb/sugar as possible, and drop as much weight as possible. Some doctors do this by putting their patients on an all liquid diet, others do this by putting them on a South Beach phase 1 diet. My surgeon is the kinder of the two.

But of course I'm not.

So, first week South Beach, and Second week (or 5 days at least) liquids for Kelly!!

Now, I have never fasted, for spiritual reasons or otherwise. So I'm nervous. Like really really nervous. But so far we've made it, and each day the surgery date gets closer. Besides, post op I'll be on all liquids for a couple of weeks anyways. Of course I'll only have 20% of my stomach left which makes it easier to fill, but until then I'll just have to have larger portions of water, broth, protein shakes, crystal light, etc.

I'm saying that, but did I mention how scared I actually am???

So, challenge 1 down, and good to go. Now challenge 2 accepted! Hoping I can lose a few more between now and Friday morning.

Time to get my liver squishy so that the rest of me isn't as much.