Started Optifast

Oct 25, 2012

Yesterday I started the Optifast Liquid diet.  My surgery is scheduled for November 7.  It's like one day I was hoping for it and realllllly wanted it, then I said it will never happen, then one day I got the call.  Since starting the diet two days ago, I've gotten a little scared because my blood sugars were low four times and fell in the 50's while I was sleeping.  Last nite, I did not know how to treat my low blood sugar so I did what I could until I reached my physicians office today.  Thankfully, he was nice enough to pencil me in to discuss what to expect and tell me how to adjust my medicine.  So far, it's worked today but who knows what tomorrow will hold because most of this seems like trail and error. At the same time,  I look at all the photos on Ob and say to myself, "I hope that one day, that can be me," but then again in the back of my mind, I don't know if I have what it takes to do this.  I guess what I'm saying is that I'm taking one day at a time.  I've started this scary journey and I don't know where it is taking me.  The not knowing part is what scares me most. 

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