In the beginning...

I guess I'm starting a journey.  To make it short and sweet I am a 5'11ish chick, I weigh 296lbs and I should weigh between 155 and 176.    I'm married and I have one son.   I've always been overweight... always as in the first time I remember weighing in and realizing how much I weighed I was a 210lb 8th grader.  Like many of the other chubby kids growing up I had endless bad childhood and teenage experiences, not that I want to talk about them, but I guess that's part of my background info.  I've tried almost every diet under the sun.  Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, shakes, pills, and everything in between.  Back and forth up and down and every size in between.  I have decided that it is finally time to take out the big guns.  Get a tool, even a weapon to fight the disease of obesity.  On March 4, 2011 I will be undergoing a procedure called a sleeve gastrectomy.  Basically I'm getting my stomach cut down from many ounce size to four ounces.  To get myself started on my journey,  I am changing my diet in steps.  Next week begins phase one, carbohydrate elimination.  Also tomorrow morning I go in to see my general care doc to get my pre-surgical  clearance done. But that's a story for tomorrow.  As for today I am 100lbs or so overweight.  The size of a teenage girl, so that's my goal.  I wanna loose a whole person or three whole Tommy's depending how you look at it.  Wish me luck and pray for me... I need all the good thoughts and feelings I can get.
Blessed be,
Kris