With the new year approaching, I am looking forward to new
beginnings. As I shared in a previous
blog, I will be having gastric bypass surgery on February 13th. There are some things that have to happen prior
to surgery. My liver needs to be healthy. To accomplish this, I am required to go on a
strict diet for the 2 weeks prior to surgery.
I will have 2 protein shakes (15-25 grams of protein, less than 7 grams
of carbohydrates) and one meal of 4-6 ounces of protein and 1 cup of
vegetables. This should result in a loss
of about 15 pounds. Finding protein shakes that meet the requirements and are palatable
is somewhat challenging so I ventured out to Walmart today and bought each kind
that they had that met the requirements.
I also ordered some protein broths to try out. Over the next few weeks, I will test them out
and hopefully find something that I like.
When the time comes for me to “have” to use the shakes, I should be
prepared.
Another step that I took was to try to create a fail-proof
environment. After having 17 people
living in the house over Christmas, there was quite a bit of food that was not
weight-loss friendly. I didn’t want it
all to just go to waste, so my daughter-in-law Dani went through the cupboards,
fridge, and freezer and took everything that I wasn’t supposed to eat. There wasn’t much food left in the house, but
I won’t be tempted to eat something I shouldn’t. I also packed up my cookbook collection.
There’s no sense in having them here tempting me to cook things that will
interfere with me reaching my goal.
My last step for this weekend was buying ingredients to make a
couple of the recipes from the cookbook that Corey and Raissa gave me for Christmas. It is written specifically for success after
weight loss surgery. Tomorrow I plan to
prepare and puree the recipes, freeze them in ice cube trays, then store them
in Ziploc bags so I have some ready meals when the time comes.
This may seem like some drastic measures and I know that not
everyone would need to do this much prep work to be successful, but I know the
hard work now will pay off later.
This isn’t the end. If
you’ve read any of my blogs, you know that I try to find a lesson in everything. When I was creating my fail-proof
environment, I thought about how we need to make our spiritual environment
fail-proof. If you know that there are
areas in your life that cause you to be tempted to sin, you need to do the work
to remove those things when possible and have a game plan in place for when
temptation arises. Just as having food
in the house that isn’t consistent with my successful weight loss, having
things in my life that I know will cause me to sin doesn’t make any sense
either. Is it easy? No. Is
it worth it? Absolutely!!!
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