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I guess my stall is over because I had dropped several pounds when I weighed on Monday.  I have even lost another pound or so since then.  Yay!

On the other hand I just had to force myself to vomit.  It's only the third time I've done that.  THe other two times were clearly from eating too fast and I've learned to slow things down quite a bit.  I don't know what it was this time.  I had some popcorn, then had my calcium chews.  I became increasingly uncomfortable.  Maybe I was too full.

Interestingly, I have tolerated just about everything I've eaten so far.  The times I have vomited were due to discomfort rather than the "coming back up" pouch-rejection that I hear other people talk about.  It seems that for me, if I eat something that I don't tolerate well, I get pouch pain but most of the time it just passes.  Obviously I try to avoid those foods that cause pain.  Turkey lunchmeat doesn't seem to work well for me...I can eat it slowly, but today I had some pain from it, and frankly it doesn't taste good to me.  Ham, on the other hand, goes down easy, especially with some cream cheese on it. 

So yea, I think turkey is one of the few things that I will probably avoid unless it's very moist.  Also I had a tough meatball once that was painful (vomit #2) but seriously, those cafeteria people at work just don't know how to make a meatball.  It was like rubber, I should have just thrown it away.

A lady at work mentioned my weight loss today.  She doesn't know about the surgery and commented on it.  She was at the same lunch meeting as me, too, and I wonder if she saw me eat a few shreds of meat off of the boxed-lunch sandwich and thinks something is wrong.  I just told her it was "hard work"!

On the work front I will have five work trips to take over a 3 month period.  At this point I'm worried that I will outgrow the size 28 pants that I JUST bought by then and have to buy nice work clothes again. 

365 pre-op
339 surgery
306 today

I guess I haven't posted any updates in 3 weeks.  Things have been quite hectic.  First, I went to the ER on February 24 with an irregular heartbeat.  My heart was racing up to 190 and I was in atrial fibrillation.  After some unsuccessful drugs they "cardioverted" me - i.e. they shocked me to get my heart back in rhythm.  I had to stay over night.  They did not find a cause for the issue...no blood clot, no structural defect, no electrolyte imbalance.  I am now taking Toprol to make sure I stay in rhythm.  I saw my PCP this week and she checked my EKG and electrolytes again then suggested I see a cardiologist to see if there's anything else I should do.  I don't want to stay on the Toprol.  It is having some undesirable effects, namely blunting adrenaline response.  I played my violin in an orchestra concert on March 9 and I didn't get the rush I normally do...so sad. 

Other than that, the big news has been the big stall.  I KNOW that everyone goes through this at about the same point but it does suck.  First I am feeling like I am not losing fast enough because I only lost about 30 lbs. since surgery and so many others lost that in like a week.  Then I have been seriously stuck for two weeks.  I was drinking two protein shakes a day for awhile, that didn't do much.   I guess I have to keep doing the right things and wait it out.

So, yea...I did order some new pants because I was tired of my pants falling off.  I bought a belt too but most of my pants don't have belt loops. 

365 Pre-surgery
339 Day of surgery
309 Today