Hello!

I suppose I should start by telling you a little about myself. I am 24 years old and recently underwent Gastric Sleeve surgery. Throughout my entire life i have struggled greatly with my weight. It tended to fluctuate year after year and it never seemed that by me killing myself in the gym was doing any good. When I was going into my junior year of college i was told that I had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). For those that do not know what this is... it is a ovarian cyst condition where my body cannot digest sugars properly and because of that the stored sugar becomes fat in my body and i also develop cyst on my ovaries. There is not much you can do for PCOS other then cut down on your sugar intake and take vitamins but i tried that. At first i thought everything was going well and i dropped down to 160lbs! However, within a year and a half i was back up to 200lbs and getting bigger then ever. By this time i had pretty much given up on ever being at a healthy weight but once again i tried diet after diet. I tried Atkins, Body by Vi, Sensa, you name it and all of them were the same. I would lose about 15lbs and then no more.

After giving up and settling I spoke with a long time friend who i had not seen in over 6 months. She too had always battled with her weight and told me that she had just underwent weight loss surgery and if i was serious about it i should check it out! I questioned if i should even check out weight loss surgery because i was only about 230lbs but on the website it talked about women battling with PCOS and how it was ungodly hard for them to lose weight and how much one could benefit from weight loss surgery! Within 5 minutes i was already on the website and checking it out. I had applied to the program and was just waiting to see if i was accepted. That Monday i received an email saying that i was accepted and that I needed to complete a lot of paperwork and have it faxed to their office. 

About a month later i got my first appointment! I was so nervous but i went and checked it out. I had a appointment with a social worker, a nutritionist, physical therapist and a physicians assistant. For the next 6 months i would go to doctors appointments with my nutritionist and physical therapist. I would be educated on how to work out properly and foods to eat and vitamins to take. Every months my progress would be assessed by a team and then i would either be "ok'd" for surgery or told to keep working!

The month of december came and i  received a phone call from the program. I was "ok'd" for surgery and could make my surgery date for a month later! Instantly, i was shocked! all this work and educational classes had finally paid off. I could not believe that all my problems could finally be solved! I could finally do all the things in life i have always wanted to do and not have my weight holding me back.

Now came the hard part. Christmas break was soon approaches and i would have numerous family get togethers and loads of food bringing dangled in front of my face. Not only would this be extremely hard for the average person but be extremely hard for me lol Trying to be on a diet during the holidays is awful... You might be asking yourself now why would i be dieting right before my surgery? shouldn't i be eating all my favorite foods. Well you see, before bariatric surgery you have to go on a 10 day liquid to decrease the size of your liver. This makes it easier to go around during surgery and it takes less time. 

So here i was on this damn liquid diet for 10 days....