Kicking off the Process (Weight Loss Surgery)

Last Tuesday, July 14th 2015, I attended the first class (of six) required by Kaiser Permanente prior to scheduling weight loss surgery. I'll talk more about why I'm doing this in a future article, but I thought I'd start the discussion by describing a funny story.

I was rushing to get to the class - it is almost an hour away from my house, and I wasn't expecting the level of traffic that I ran into. Therefore, I was flying around the streets in an attempt to get to the meeting location on time. Made it, but just barely. A little stressful.

The class ran for about 1 1/2 hours, and was filled with great information. The nutritionist that was assigned to the class is fantastic, and readily answered all of our (the class is 24 people) questions. Afterwards, we were weighed, then sent on our way.

At which point some crazy combination of psychological and physical bells started going off - I was HUNGRY! Too much talk about food, too much talk about how I shouldn't eat so much food (which is generally a trigger to make me want to eat more food). I hung a screeching right out of the Kaiser driveway and blasted down the road, looking for something to embrace eat.

And wouldn't you know, there was my good friend, Mr. Taco Bell. I ordered a larger portion of MexiStuff than I ever have, and gulped it down in an instant.

Huh. Not a great start, right? I have to get this train back on the tracks...

-sd