Well, not exactly, but for many foods it is my final week. I start the big pre-op diet on Friday and will not return to eating any kind of solid food for at least a month. So what is newsworthy about that. I have talked about that before. What's newsworthy is the fact that as I sit here in my hotel room in Atlanta, GA I am thinking back over the weekend at my Mom and Dad's and the good food I ate from Mom's kitchen. I am also thinking about a little something else. A littler George.
While I was there I helped my dad put up a digital antenna for their TV service. The original one was not working well and they bought a new bigger antenna and rotor to try and pick up the area stations better. I had to work my into the crawlspace under their house to feed a cable thru for the rotor and while I was struggling with getting in their, and panicking a little about being able to get back out, I got to thinking how much easier something like this will be after I lose about 100lbs. That night I pretty much tossed and turned all night for two reasons, sore from the days activities and second my mind was alive with wild imaginings of the things I will be able to do that I have not been able too or have been very uncomfortable to do for a very long time. Of course, I have already told how much I want to get back on my bicycle and start riding again, but I also was thinking about things like how much nicer it will be when I have to fly somewhere on the plane to be able to sit in the cramped up seats that won't be so cramped up anymore or going to the races at the Kansas Speedway without having to pry myself down into the seats.
This got me thinking about how uncomfortable and miserable a lot of things are for the people that are even bigger than I am. I am 100lbs overweight. What do the people do that are 200, 300, or more pounds overweight. I cannot imagine how miserable a lot of things are for them. I also cannot imagine how they must feel when they are ridiculed and made fun of. I see these people in a whole different light now. I just would love to be in a position to be able to help every one of them. But first, I have to get myself thru this week and it is dragging along. I hate to imagine what the next 2 weeks are going to be like. They are going to seem like forever. I will sip on some coffee with caffeine in it and wait to see what happens come Friday. I have not yet given in to dreading it totally but giving up food, carbonated beverages, alchohol, and caffeine all at once makes me now understand why my wife thought it would be a great idea for me to be out on the road during the diet. She told me it would be easier on me not having to be at home missing the food and being tortured by them eating and having food all around me all the time. But now I see that she is actually fearful for her life knowing what a bear I will be for the first few days after going off 4 of the main staples of my everyday being. Smarter that I ever thought her to be. You see, after 30 years together, she knows me well. So for her welfare and my sanity, I am working through the entire first week and part of the second week of the diet. I think that is best, don't you?
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