Frankie82
Nutrients, calories and bras.
Oct 16, 2014
I can’t believe that it has been 10 weeks already. I am down 43 lbs from surgery date, a total of 79lbs in total. Damn! That’s a big number!
I am having some issues from my surgery. The first being I still really haven’t returned to work. Thankfully, I have an awesome medical plan, but I am really losing it spending so much time at home. I went back at week 5, but I tore the surgical sites at work. I honestly felt like I did fresh from the hospital when that happened. I am working part-time next week to see how my body handles things.
I am having a hard time getting calories in. Vesuvius (my pouch) is great in that I do not have any food reactions (still have not had sweets) but he certainly lets me know when he’s full. I also do not have much of a hunger response, so combine not being hungry with it hurting when I eat, and it’s hard to get calories in. Today I doubted MFP and dug the boxes out of the recycling to make sure that that the calorie count was correct. It was. I ate all day and still only hit 650 calories.
There are also some nutrient deficiencies present in my blood work. When I met with my nutritionist at week 5, we upped my dosage of vitamin D to 2000iu up from 1000iu. I’m getting a minimum of 2000iu, plus the D in my calcium, plus the D in my A+D supplement, so I was really surprised to find a deficiency in that one. My iron is also low, but my vitamin B12 is through the roof! Waiting on my GP for a follow up, but the high end of acceptable B12 levels is 650 (units of something) and I came in just under 1300.
I’m missing my old wardrobe. There are just some staples that everyone has that you miss when they’re gone. I’ve been doing very well with buying from thrift stores and from swap groups, but I have a really hard time spending money on something that I’m going to wear for a month. Tonight I spend two hours going through beautiful clothes trying to find something that will work for an event tomorrow, mostly because I didn’t have a convertible bra and I can’t stand straps showing. I just dropped off five wool pea-coats to the women’s centre this week, yet I don’t have one that fits me because I just can’t justify the cost.
