One Month Down

Nov 29, 2011

Wow, I can't believe it. Its already been a month!! I know people say it either drags or flies by and my first 4 weeks have FLOWN.My surgery went well. No complications so far. Just the ridiculous gas pains and some throbbing in my shoulders from the position they had them during the procedure. I stayed in the hospital for 1 night and ended up sleeping in the chair for most of it bc it was more comfortable. As soon as they had me up and walking I was off. I guess not many people walk as far or for as long as I did bc the nursing staff was baffled as I lapped the nursing station. The next morning after a shower I walked up to the next floor while the nurse pushed my wheelchair beside me=) Go Me! Ice cold water went down really easily so I was able to get an entire bottle down before I was discharged. Once home Mom took over Jackson duties officially. I had some AMAZING friends take care of him while mom bounced back and forth between the hospital. Flash forward a couple days and I was walking laps up and down the street with my belly band on. My followup with Dr Cronk went amazingly well. He said from the looks of things he would of never guess I would of had surgery a week earlier if he hadn't seen my scares and known better. Woot! THEN...I lost 14lbs in my first week...DOUBLE WOOT!! The pure liquid diet killed me. I just wanted to chew something!! As soon as I could eat some runny grits I was all over it. 

Flash forward today and I am 4 weeks out. Everyone says that they can see a difference in me, but I am still not seeing it. Been told its normal. Took my one month pictures and measurements tonight. I can actually see the difference between the two sets of pictures. Also, I have lost a total of 9 inches (probably plus some because we could track where mom measured my waist at).

My big trouble is making sure I am eating the proper amount of food when I eat. I haven't really gotten any sort of overfull feeling, so I feel like I'm eating too much. Pulled out the scale and am trying my best. One day at a time...right? Trying to also get back into going to the gym. Jackson has been sleeping in lately and it makes it getting to classes in the AM difficult.

Well I guess that kind of sort of catches my story up!

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