Today’s the day I find out if I can have the operation or not. At 11:00 I have to go to the Cardiologist’s office to have a ‘stress test’. The test involves getting wired up with ECG wires and being made to walk on a treadmill. They start it up, and I walk, faster and faster as they accelerate it until I can go as fast as possible. It doesn’t last long but feels like it goes on forever. The idea is to test my heart’s responses to the pretty violent activity and will be used by the specialist to determine if I’m capable of surviving the stress of the diet. The test should start around 11:30 and as I said, doesn’t last long so should be over by 12:00… or earlier if I pass out… or die (yes it is possible)!!
Actually, I’ve had these in the past and have hated them all. At the time I had the last one, I was slightly fitter than I am now, but still thought they were going to kill me! This time I’ve let myself get even more unfit, if you could believe it’s possible. I’m quite seriously concerned that I’ll ‘fail’ and be told my dream of losing this excessive weight once and for all will be gone.
The appointment with the Cardiologist is set for 1:30, i.e. after lunch, and at that time my fate will already be sealed and I’ll be told whether the current main focus of the blog, i.e. having a Gastric Sleeve Operation, will have to be abandoned and the focus of the blog veer abruptly towards a ‘standard’ diet on which I follow the slow path instead. Whatever happens, I need to stick to a real diet from now on. It may already be too late, but if nothing else it’s making life interesting 🙂
My weight, which is, after all, the *real* emphasis of the bog (and the main record I want to keep), has dropped slightly after the past week of overindulgence and I’m back 151.7 kilos, still nowhere near the 148 kilos I wanted to have reached by now. Still, things are what they are so, whatever happens today, I’ll just have to wait and see. 😦
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