4 weeks later...

Dec 07, 2009

I haven't been the best about keeping up here, but there are only so many hours in a day. So I FINALLY lost 26 pounds. I say finally because I was stuck at 24.6 pound loss for a week and today the scale finally moved down.

Now the past few weeks I'm experiencing the "it might not make you sick the first time you eat it, but it may just surprise you!". That is the WORST feeling. I eat dark chicken meat, and maybe 2 bites, and mashed potatoes... I've done this for about 2 weeks, well Saturday the meat did not agree. I KNEW it was going to come up it was a matter of waiting for it to come up. I just feel gross when that happens. I'm SO grateful and happy that it has only happened 3 times in the past month because I hear some people do it ALL the time. I'm also blessed not to have to deal with dumping. 
I also have problems with my vitmins... I take liquid B complex but it does not have enough thiamine in it so I supplement.. I get dry heaves within 20 -30 minutes of the extra thiamin... I found centrum chewables I can tolerate, but still find them to be rather gross. I also found a good B 12 sublinqual.

My ability to drink liquids has improved, Im still not close to the 64 ounces a day, but I'm doing more than 8 oz. a day. One thing that is odd it the change in taste... I can't do scrambled eggs they are nauseating, milk doesn't taste very good, nor does cottage cheese. Before surgery I could drink  milk like crazy, now its hard. But I use it with my protein shakes and I don't notice things.  I also find my sugarfree koolaid/crystal light TOO sweet and water has a funny taste, but I love lemonade, which I could not drink before surgery due to heart burn.

I'm back at work and I do better if I don't eat with the rest of my co-workers, otherwise I'm too busy visiting that I'm not as 'in tune to my eating" and have overeatten on soup 2 times, that can be painful too.  So just being 100% aware of things is important.

Thanksgiving was not hard to get through, which surprised me. Funny thing there is i LOVE pickles so on with my little bit of potatoes and turkey I ate a tiny pickle - No problem. The next day I tried a pickle - it said "no way".. that's the weirdest.

I'm not doing so good with daily activity right now.

OVER ALL - I do my best everyday, I am grateful I had this surgery. I'm already wearing clothes that did not fit before. I believe I'm eating the way I'm suppose to... soft foods, adding a new food daily (if I chose). I still stick to what I know - yogurt, pudding, cheese sticks.

I don't mean for this to sound negative at all... it's all a learning experience. I'm grateful!

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