The last supper.

Tonight I had my last (for a long while) big meal.  I've been able to enjoy food (to excess) the past 2 days.  Tonight I was treated to dinner by Danielle (someone I have been blessed with through this process) to celebrate my losing the weight to get my surgery scheduled.  Danielle has been through this ENTIRE process (2012) and has lost 145 pounds.  To anyone contemplating getting this surgery or any bariatric surgery make sure you have a support system.  Your support system is imperative to succeeding.  Being blessed with support who has been through the same process is even more amazing.  Deciding to go on this journey has been a HUGE (like my ass size huge) life changer.  At the end (or the beggining of this new life, however you want to think of it) I will be a different person both physically, mentally, and emotionally.  This process makes you feel very isolated at times.  Feeling isolated sucks.  I have contacted psych and I will be seeing him on Friday so we can figure out where my head is before the surgery and I have already scheduled 3 more sessions for after the surgery.  I know the mental aspect of all of this is a HUGE (like my thighs) component. But anyway enough about all that and onward to my "last" supper!!! I've had some cravings I needed to squelch in the past 2 days.  I wanted chocolate cake, Mexican, and a burger.  So Danielle recommended going to Longhorn because they have a MASSIVE ( like my breast bahaha) chocolate cake!!! That's all I had to hear to agree!  I enjoyed every single thing I ate ( except for the spicy chicken balls, they were hella hot) and left STUFFED ( like my belly in Spanx!).

My last diet coke/carbonated beverage. I plan to kick these out of my life for good! Carbonation can cause a lot of indigestion after surgery and stretch the pouch. I so enjoyed the hell out of this though!

Spicy chili (or something like that) chicken bites. Shoo they weren't joking. Good but I needed a fire extinguisher and Kleenex!

 If course had to have the "healthy" salad with lots of ranch!! I won't be able to eat a salad for 3-4 months and that is only if my pouch tolerated it after that long

 I forgot to take a "before" picture of the 6 oz steak and loaded baked potato. So good!

Last but not least the "Texas Stampede".  Heaven on a plate right there folks.

Yes this was a lot of food BUT for the first time in my life I didn't clean every plate.  I left something on each plate and I feel good about it.  That's a big deal to someone with a eating disorder of sorts.  Besides the annoying drunk lady who laughed loudly like a man sitting at the table beside us it was a great evening!!