Research, Research, Research

Oct 26, 2010

New update. It’s been a few weeks since I last posted on the blog. So far so good. Yeas I would do this again and no it wasn’t as bad as I thought, just harder.   I’m down about 91 pounds since I started my pre op back in May, 37 lbs since surgery. Right now I’m losing about 4 lbs per week. I’ve lost something like 30% of my excess body weight so far. Way ahead of the goal the Dr. set for me. As of yesterday I am on Stage 5/Maintenance per my NUT. This means that I am on my own cut loose and looking for trouble lol.   If Attitude is the number one thing I think you need, then next comes information. If you are looking into this surgery educate yourself. Talk to pre-ops, post-ops, Drs. Nurses, read the websites get your facts straight. This is no easy way out BUT it is a great tool to be used to change your habits and ultimately your life for the better. There is so much info out there I learn new stuff every week. Plus it’s way different when you are on the inside looking out.   In my journey I realized very quickly my Honeymoon period is a little shorter than some others and I am dealing with that now. I’ve had very little in complications. I can eat almost anything. Scares the hell out of me. However one thing I can’t do, is eat much of anything. So I’d say the last week has been a great introduction to what not to do: Don’t eat too much, too fast or too big. All lead to very uncomfortable circumstances. In my mind all good, because it is teaching me to follow the plan, but at first I had such trouble I fell back to shakes.   The NUT knocked some sense into me and now I’m back to food with a new attitude, working through the hard part. Long term I’m told the shakes are a poor substitute for food and will lead to less weight loss or more weight gain if I don’t watch it. Too much of a slider food. Too easy to get easy calories. If I took advantage of or abused that I could double my intake of food and still be hungry. Then over compensate by eating more food.   That’s it for now! w/b

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