I was just dosing off when I heard my cellphone alert me to the fact that I had a voicemail, it pulled me right out of the zone. I got up and saw that it was from my best friend Alyson. I thought, oh no...she remembered. Who would forget?! She recently called me to let me know that she wanted to get the LAP-BAND® procedure done. I'm always the voice of reason, its why my friends and family call me. I thought she wanted me to talk her out of it, I am regularly the voice of opposition as well on such topics as weight loss surgery. After trying to convince her out of it for about forty-five minutes and saying the routine "we are fat because we are lazy", "you don't need surgery", "we need to exercise and eat right", "anyone who eats their diet would loose weight", yada yada, she says "I'm still doing it". I immediately went into my support mode following up with, "if this is really what you want I will support you", etc. Well, somewhere in that conversation I told her that I would do the diet with her that they give you before surgery just to prove to her that anyone can loose weight on their diet plan with surgery or before surgery. So...here I am. However, after her consultation with the doctor she decided to go with the gastric bypass. I am anti-gastric bypass. I mean...have you seen Carnie Wilson? Its not a cure all. You still have bad habits of eating too much, not exercising, and your not going to learn these things with surgery alone.
Bottom line: She is my best friend and I promised her I would do it. It doesn't matter which procedure she does, I will do the diet with her. Its not just about proving a point, its also about supporting my friend and she thinks me doing this blog is funny...She laughs at the word Fat-Famous and wants to make sure I mention her name in this blog, so here it is girlfriend and Good Luck!!!
Alyson, Alyson, Alyson, Alyson, Alyson!
Now I have to go look at the 18 pages of program diet material she just faxed me. Ugh! Tomorrow is day one...yikes!
By the way, the blog is purple because that is her favorite color :)
ReplyDeleteHAHa! You are too funny! Thanks for the support. The procedure that I'm having done is Gastric Sleeve. Will you be blogging every day? I'll let you know how day 1 goes for me... Don't forget your vitamins!:-)
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm going to blog every day or at least try to. I figure it will keep us both on track and responsible for our diets. This is definitely a diet! LOL! I have to go buy my protein shakes and bars. Which protein shake did you find was closest to yours? I'm going to have to sit at Wal-Mart for a few hours doing some label reading...thanks pal (sigh) LOL!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at this diet and I'm sure that I will have to blog multiply times per day lol
ReplyDeletemultiply=multiple but you knew that =D
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