Well, day 2 of 100 Days of Weight Loss is all about commitment. H’m. I think having surgery is pretty darned committed.

Okay, I accept that it isn’t magic though. Now, pretty much everyone I know, knows someone who’s had gastric banding. Some have done brilliantly. Some, not so much. I mean, it is possible to melt down those chocolate bars and just pour them into your guts. Apparently it’s also possible to live (for a while, anyway) on brandy alexanders. So there you go. If I want to behave like a complete boob, and waste $3500 and all this time and effort (and probably some pain, but let’s not think about that) then I can, I’m sure, manage that quite well.

But I am committed to this, to making it work.

I will be able to stick to this because, well, first of all, I hate vomiting and I’m not particularly fond of drinking. Way back, a whole lot of blogs ago,  I mentioned that Mum would offer Sissy and me an icecream at the end of shopping. I was usually thirsty and would ask for a drink, but I was told I could have a glass of water when we got home. Thus, I learned the valuable lesson of how to ignore my thirst. I don’t like drinking anything very much. Have to make myself get down the regulation 2 litres each day.

So what I’m getting at there is I don’t think it’s going to be much of a chore, sticking to my program.

As for today’s commitment:

so far I’ve had

2 glasses of water

2 cups of tea (no milk or sugar)

1 serve of OptiFast shake

lunch will be:

1 serve of OptiFast soup

roast veggies (it’s too bloody cold for salad)

dinner will be:

1 OptiFast bar

man. I can hardly contain my excitement.

No photo today, I’m just gonna go and chuck a bucket of cold water over my head, in the hope it will help me to calm down.

Oh, but we are going to plant our almond tree today. So happy about that. I love eating nuts and looking forward to when the diet will allow that again. I bought the tree yesterday and have its bokashi patch all ready and waiting for it.