5-31-10 Back to work tomorrow

May 31, 2010

I am enjoying the last day of my 2 week break from work.  Tomorrow I start again and am a little apprehensive about going back to the stress that is my job.  I guess I will take it one fire at a time and put each out as best I can.  If I need to leave early, I will, don't want to overdo it.  I think that even though I am apprehensive, it will be good for me to start my life back up again.  Right now I kind of feel like I am in limbo and need to start acting like myself once again.  I am on my second week of liquid solids and can't wait to add a little more variety to my diet.  I'm not hungry but I am really sick of milk, puddings, soup with just potatoes and pumpkin passed thru the blender.  I want to chew something.  I am dying to have a cracker with some cheese...  UGH!!!  I weighed myself this morning and lost another 3 pounds which is a bit discouraging.  But if I look at the overall weight loss, that makes it a full 20 pounds in 2 weeks.  So that's pretty good, certainly better than on any diet I've ever been on.  Still... I have been eating nothing but liquids in 2 weeks you would think the weight loss would be greater.  The body just adjusts to your eating habits and stubbornly holds on to that fat.... very frustrating

But patience is a virtue and time heals all wounds, right?  So I just have to wait and see what happens.  My tummy is just a little sore, but so much better.  The tape on the areas where they opened me up are falling off by themselves and it looks like there will be minimal scarring - that's a relief.  The belly is still huge but at least it won't be marked.  I finally slept on my bed all night last night and not on the recliner - I think I am sleeping better than before I had the surgery.  I just need to get off my lazy butt and do some walking.  I am going to try and get on my treadmill and see how that works out for me.  I will update on how it went at work next week.  Good luck to all!

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