Getting ready ... For the rest of my life!!

I have one exam left to go, as I sit here writing this post, I should actually be studying, because my last exam is at 9am tomorrow morning.  I am just getting a little excited about finally being done school for this year.  A while back I had said that I was looking forward to college next year, but then I changed my focus and chose to pursue my love of computers instead.  Well, I did some research today and discovered that I actually have an entire year of high school to go, in order to get my upgrades for the courses I need to even have acceptance considered into the most ideal University in Canada for computer engineering.  I am determined, I am going to be a student at the University of Waterloo, and when I get determined about something there is very little that can or will hold me back from achieving my goal.  Not only is the UofW the best school in Ontario (or Canada for that matter), it will also put me back down into the area of southern Ontario that I call home.  So I am entirely prepared to go back to school again next year and get the grades required to be accepted to my first choice of schools.

On the WLS topic, I have one week left (a week today) and I will be starting my Optifast.  I am actually finding that I am looking forward to it.  The only exception to that is that every year the family and I go down to North Bay's beautiful waterfront for the Canada Day festivities.  It's going to be an interesting situation taking a big bottle of water (for drinking), a shaker bottle (for my Optifast), stuff for the kids including sunscreen, and multiple other things.  It really won't be a whole lot different for me, because I usually do carry all kinds of stuff down with me.  However, I will be bringing food for everyone else and shakes for me.  Which is where things will be a little different.  I am hoping that one of the many vendors with fast food will be willing to give me ice for my shakes, so I can at least cool the water down that I will be putting into them.

278 lbs

I have taken my before pictures.  My husband took them for me last weekend.  I can say with all honesty, that I was pretty disappointed with how I look in my bathing suit now.  I have to say that I am completely looking forward to looking at myself in a bathing suit next summer and seeing a completely different person looking back.   Next summer it is my 15th wedding anniversary, so hubby and I would like to go on a canoe trip through Algonquin Park for two weeks.  It's going to be so nice to not have it in my head that if I get into a canoe I'm going to sink it.  I got into a canoe last summer for a short river trip, but the whole time I was in it I was very careful about how I moved, for fear of taking on water.  I wish I could find some pictures of what I looked like before I started gaining this weight.  I will ask my mom if she has any, she would be the only person I can think of who would have something relatively handy.  I am doing a major overhaul of my house in the coming  weeks, before surgery, so I might just locate some as well.  If I do, I will scan those and post them for you to see.

I'm going to keep this relatively short today, due to the fact that I am supposed to be studying for my math exam tomorrow morning.  I will post something on June 30, which will have my pre-Opti weight.  That will be my starting point for my pre-op weight loss.  Then I will be tracking my weight through the full 3 weeks that I am taking it, and will regularly post my updated weight.

Have a great week everyone!