Two week count down!

Jul 23, 2014

Where does the time go? Two weeks and about 7 hours from now I’ll be in surgery and it really does not seem that far away. I have finished 17 days of the liquid diet and, although I was not too keen on it when I was told 4 weeks, I do understand why the nutritionist does 4 weeks. First of all, it breaks your spirit quiet well (lol, not that bad). What I will say as positives for it is that you really learn what is habit eating and what are your physical signs of hunger.

I was at my friend’s daughter’s birthday party, and there were all sorts of tasty kid-friendly food. I’m not too keen on 23 small children running around, so I stayed in the kitchen to help. So many times I would take something out of the oven (nuggets, pizza bites, taquitos…) and go to pop one in my mouth. I wasn’t hungry; it was habit eating. Each time I took a platter out to the table I wanted to pop in some cheesy poufs, but again, that’s habit eating. I will say that helping cut and hand out the 16” tall, strawberry cake with multiple layers of vanilla mouse without eating it was really freakin’ hard!

I also went camping this week and being on the liquid diet makes packing a breeze! Threw a couple 6-packs of Glucerna into a cooler and my trusty water bottle, and I was pretty well set! I also realized how much habit eating goes into camping. I have just proven to myself that I can go camping, and enjoy it, without toasting marshmallow, making s’mores or banana boats, or eating the Jiffy Pop. I normally don’t drink coffee, but it’s a camping thing, so I heated up a bottle of chocolate Glucerna and it wasn’t a bad substitute.

I’m also going to recommend a cook book. I ordered a book from the library for some post-op recipes that I can make and freeze for the first few weeks post-op so it’s easy on my care-giver, and the book arrived today. I sat down with it and some post-it note flags, and after flagging 30 recipes that I wanted to photo copy and make, and only getting through half the book, I decided to buy it. It’s called “Eating Well after weight Loss Surgery” by Patt Levine and I was able to pick it up on Amazon for under $ 10 after shipping. I love that it has how to prepare each meal to suit what stage you’re in post-op for lap-band, RNY and the duodenal switch. It also has a sauce and desert (!!!!!) section. My one question about the book is she uses wine in a lot of the recipes, and I know that alcohol is a no-no, so I’m going to pick up some alcohol free wine from the grocery store and use that. I asked a friend if I could go to her house and cook there, as I don’t trust myself to spend a day in the kitchen, by myself, and not fire food into my mouth

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