http://www.thatfatchick.com A fat chick chronicles the journey to lap band surgery Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:53:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because of scheduling conflicts, I'm going to have to reschedule my second appointment, which I should be attending this morning at 10:30am. Dammit! http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/08/27/argh/ My second meeting is in four days. I'll come bearing gifts of completed homework, one month of logging meals and my passed-with-flying-colors psych. eval. Here's to hoping that I've lost a bit of weight since last month! http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/08/23/number-two/ My husband is supportive of my choice to have the lap band surgery, but has an issue with what he calls my aversion to sweating. My aversion isn't of sweat, my aversion is of pushing my body to do something it is not physically capable of doing right now. I'd ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/08/14/aversion/ I had my psychological evaluation done on Monday evening at 7pm. The appointment lasted an hour, and everything went perfectly. The psychologist I met with handles all of the evals for bariatric surgery patients, so she knew the basics, and had many weight related questions for me: highest weight, lowest ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/07/22/psychological-evaluation-done/ It feels so good to know that things are moving along. First appointment squared away, exercise eval in two weeks (I wasn't able to make my appointment the other morning), psych. eval and blood work this coming week, and then my second meeting in August. Everyone at the center assured me ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/07/19/it-feels-so-good/ Last night I tried to explain to my husband how being so overweight affects my life. I don't think he really got it, because his response to the situation was to make a mockery of everything I was telling him. He trivialized my feelings and the struggles I've had with ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/07/16/ouch/ So yesterday I met with a nurse, nutritionist and dietician. I didn't realize it at the time, but yesterday's appointment was also the first of the six sessions I have to do over the course of six months. Cool! One more step completed. So, the appointment. I was weighed (321 lbs., ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/07/16/moving-along-nicely/ Finally, after a few phone calls, including one to the director of the surgical weight loss program herself, and picking up paperwork from my doctor and faxing it to her directly, I'm moving on to the next step: meeting with the nutritionist! My appointment is... today! In seven hours! I'll definitely update ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/07/15/here-we-go/ I have been a very bad blogger. My excuse? I work. A lot. I have been overwhelmed with work from all directions since early April. There have been other things going on as well. Nothing bad, nothing extraordinary. Just things that take up my time, and a lot of it. I ... http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/05/27/on-hold/ Has it really been almost a month? My apologies! Life has been getting in the way, kicking ass and taking names, and then some! I promise to update with a blog entry within the next twenty-four hours. :) For now, goodnight! http://www.thatfatchick.com/2008/05/06/oops-2/