The time has come

Well, I went for my first dr visit today...  my initial thought is I AM HUNGRY .  They drew blood, did an ekg (that was abnormal, who would have thought - tried to tell them i didn't have a heart).  I am only allowed to consume 500-700 calories per day which can only be made up of protein for the first week.  This will throw my body into ketosis, meaning it will use the stored fat (and boy is there a lot of it) to burn for energy first.  I thought I took a lot of medicine before, little did i know I would be able to run my own drugstore :

These are my new daily medications in addition to the ones that I already have, plus I need to add a fiber supplement since I can't have salad.  They also told Joelle that by about Wednesday I will be both grumpy and tired - bet you can't imagine that either.  They went to stick me with the needle today and I had to turn away... the nurse got a real kick out of that.  The good news is that if I follow this exactly as they are telling me too, I could lose 100 pounds by Christmas.  I haven't been that size in over 10 years so it's kind of exciting to think about.  I will have to go every week for a while and they will closely monitor my weight, body mass index, and total water weight in my body.  Right now, 44% of my total weight is water which is atleast twice as much as it should be.  The more fluids I drink, the more fluids will be flushed from my system - i can't imagine what losing all that will feel like.  So, I'm off to a good start...  I ask for your prayers in my perseverance and prayers for my family in putting up with me....  this will not be a race, it will be a journey.  213 pounds to go to reach my goal weight....

One week away.....

I'm really kind of excited about all this - I'm looking foward to the future and being skinny and small... maybe even wear a speedo to the beach :-)  Seriously, I have reached a point in my life where I'm tired of being overweight and nothing else has worked, so I'm going to try Medi Thin weight loss.  For those of you who don't know what that is, it is physician supervised weight loss.  I will be going to the same dr who delivered Lainey and Kaitlyn - who would have thought?  He thinks I might be pregnant... LOL!!!!  He said all this could be baby fat.  (for those who know glen so well, you know these are his words...I am just being his secretary - joelle)  I really don't know what to say - this was all my wife's idea.  Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.