My first Blog

Dec 30, 2010

Well it has been 10 days since my bypass.  Before i had the surgery I weighed 352lbs.  On the day of surgery, I had made it down to 340lbs. which for me was really good because I only had 1 week to prepare for surgery instead of 2 because of the holidays and end of the year coming up.  I had my surgery on my birthday and it was the best present ever to myself.  On the night after surgery I had already lost 2 lbs, but the next night I had gained back 5lbs.  It was hard to remember that after surgery your body needs time to adjust and get back in balance.  Once home, really the only problem has been handeling the pain.  I have not had any problems with  dumping, swallowing, keeping food down or liquids.  Really it just comes down to listeing to your body.  One week out from surgery I was down 5lbs from surgery weight and feeling down because it seemed so little for all that I had gone through, but 4 days later, I found that I had lost 10lbs.  So that blew me away and I thought has it really been 27lbs in 17 days?  I don't see any difference but then it took a long time to put all this weight on and it will take time for me to see the differences, make all of the habit changes and make this permentant change in my life and that's okay.  It is happening and it is up to me, now that Dr. Zare and his staff have given me the opportunity.  What an adventure and it is just starting.  I can't wait. :)

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