Because of the job change and the molasses like speed of the University of Chicago, and quite a few other intervening issues, I have moved to the university of Illinois. The doctor there came highly reccomended by my own doctor, and it looks like I will be having the Lap band procedure. Several reasons for this: I’m a bit scared of the complexity of the other operation- and while it looked like a good fit, there were a few “oh by the ways” that seemed a bit too risky.

So the bottomline is that I will probably have the surgery end of march. In the meantime, I need to lose 35 lbs.

This should be a piece of cake, god knows I’ve done it so often before- so I’m doing Atkins up until I get down to the line, then they have an all-liquid diet I have to do for two weeks.