Day 1 of being banded....

So a little over 24 hours ago I underwent surgery for lap band. I must admit that I was very nervous. Now that the surgery is over I know there was no need to be nervous. It was a breeze. I have had a csection and that was horrible. Lap band is not even comparable. When I woke up from the anesthesia I couldn't believe it was over. I felt like I had just done 500 ab lifts but besides that all was well.

Today has been good. I am sleeping on the couch while I recover because it is downstairs and closer the my butt than my bed. LOL

I have a little pain today and some gas pain in my shoulders but nothing that is not tolerable. I will be taking it easy until Tuesday and them go back to work on Wednesday.

Diet: I am on a clear liquid diet until tomorrow and them I can have full liquids. I have had tea, Atkins protein shakes, water, and broth for the last 36 hours. I am surprisingly not hungry at all.

Weird things: I can hear the liquids gurgling in my stomach. That is supposed to go away in a few days.
I am going to post my beginning pics and measurement's on this post. After today I will only do measurements, pics and weigh in on Wednesday.

Weight: 281
BMI: 51.2
Measurements:

If you fall 7 get up 8.......This is 8.....

So I am over the dieting game. I have been at it for..well....10 years. I have tried so many thing: Atkins, Weight Watchers, Medifast, South Beach, Nutrisystem, low cal, low fat, low sodium.... and the list goes on and on. After many tries and much consideration I have decided to do something that is some what drastic. LAP_BAND. I am hoping to have the procedure done in March. I have potentially 3 months left of an unbanded life. I have been doing a lot of thinking and could not decide if I wanted to gorge myself or start a healthy lifestyle and loose a little weight before the surgery. My inital choice was gorge.... but have decided to get healthy prior to surgery. I know borniung right? But I am sick and tired of being FAT!

I am doing this blog to catalog my journey of an unbanded fat person to a banded, healthy, thin person.