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Goal's reached! 159.5 lbs. Now to lose a few more 4 cushion. 

 I am now considered in the normal zone! 2 more pounds to my first goal. Then I will opt to lose another 5 to 10 pounds as cushion for the maintanance period. 

Now a size 30 jeans and small shirt and not even 7 mos yet!

 My calories maintain between 800 - 900. I do not eat any simple carbs. The complex carbs I allow myself depends on my exercise. 

I go to the gym five days a week for an hour each time. Normally I am doing the elliptical for 35 minutes and recumbent bike for 25 minutes. I do weight training at home three days a week and ride my bike on the other two days. My rest days are the weekend.

I never had one hundred pounds to lose so I will never be in "that club". However, in less than 6 months I have lost 83% of my excess body weight! I am 11 pounds from my goal although I may try to take off ten more pounds as "cushion" for my upcoming maintenance period.

I am in size 32 jeans (down from 42 jeans, 44 suit). I wear small/medium shirts!

PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 I officially hit onderland this morning at 199. This also marks the halfway mark for me. I have gone from a size 42 pants to
a size 36. My shirts went from a XL to a M.

Quick update....

18 pounds until Onederland.

Getting in 100+ grams of protein a day, along with 64oz of fluid.

Pureed diet has become dull.....should be cleared for reg food in less than couple of weeks. 

Now down to a large shirt!!!!!!!!!!!

Not used to almost always having to get something in my mouth...barely ate before believe it or not.

No more Nexium (Barrett's Eso). No more HCTZ (HBP). No more Simvastatin (chol)! I am one only one medicine for my thyroid!

After being so dehydrated that I needed hospitalization, I am finally on the full liquids phase that my doctor gave me (docs all differ on stages ya know). Yesterday I was able to get down at least 48 ounces of water (his minimum and considering my bowels are still slow, more bloating is not needed right now). Today I got all of my early post-op protein requirements done by lunch! So now I should be able to edge closer to his big goal on protein. I also had 1/2 SM Egg Custard for late breakfast. For lunch I had some cottage cheese! Boy did that taste good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I am just concentrating on getting in some more fluids. I may toss down some leftover RTD shakes just to boost my protein while keeping some in me throughout the day. I probably will not eat any food food today. This is day one after all. As long as I can get my water and protein in (so far, easy) then everything else is a treat. 

The only downside is that I have some wound leakage. I have gone through two shirts and two shorts. Thankfully my wife is a nurse. She checked the opacity, scent, and color. It is not "some big word she uses". I guess in laymen's terms she meant it is not infection. She called my doc since that was one of his "Reasons to Call". The nurse agreed with Lisa. I am being seen for my follow up on Thursday so that's fine either way unless anything changes. So now I am half naked with gauze on me lol. After all, I do not have a large wardrobe. 

(TMI ALERT) My bowels are still extremely SLOW. I am lucky if I "fart" once a day. Needless to say I am BLOATED. I burp some so that helps. I will ask the doc about this Thursday.

Side note....the IV weight gain is quickly coming off. It just sucks that all of the hard work it took for me to get down to 219 or whatever it was....was moot. I will be glad to be rid of the bloated gut. It was nice having a flat gut two weeks ago. 

I wish I could say it has been a magical week since surgery, but I would be fibbing. It has been a rough week.

I had surgery on August 3rd. I was supposed to be the 2nd case of the day which would be around 9. Well, some water pipes blew in the hospital which meant my doctor did not have water to quick sterilize his instruments like normal. So his partner had to trade his case with mine. This frustrated me because my nerves just kept escalating. Perhaps I should have just gone home! I managed to get a little cocktail which calmed me until I went into surgery somewhere around noon. I recall being wheeled into the OR room which I rarely have done before but I guess the cocktail wore off. I recall mentioning how nervous I was and then I must have been given the rest of my cocktail because I was out.

I woke up more sore than any scope surgery I've had before. I was quite nauseous. It was a relief to know that RNY could be completed along with repairing of my hiatal hernia. (We had a back up in case adhesions made RNY impossible.)

I was able to head home the next day around 7. The doc said I was good to go as long as I felt ready enough. Part of me knew I felt crappy but I also did not expect to feel wonderful. So I discharged.

That evening I sipped as much as I could but I could tell something just wasn't right. I did not sleep well that night. The next day I got up early to start my sipping routine. I could manage to get down a couple of ounces before I started to feel horrible again. I would burp and start vomiting. I drank as much as I could manage but it was not enough. Lisa called my docs partner since my doc was out of town. He said I could go to hospital tonight or come see him the next morning.

We decided to see him first thing in the morning. We waited and waited. He wouldn't be in until 11 so we had to wait a couple of hours. Home was too far away so we waited. After we finally saw him, he advised me to be put in hospital for dehydration and testing. 

Of course I was severely dehydrated. My urine was darker than tea, almost like coffee. It was hell getting an IV and blood drawn. I went for my first x-ray soon after getting a bolus of fluids. NPO. YUCK. I got some ice chips the next morning. Doc said he saw some dilation at duodenum along with irritation. The doc needed a barium MRI. So I drank what I could of that stuff and it actually did not taste as bad to me as it did before, oddly. Somewhere in there I was allowed a meal....clear liquids. It still hurt to eat but no vomiting. Then all of a sudden my ice gets taken away and I was back on NPO. No one could tell me why...so I wondered if something was found and I needed another procedure or what. It was late at night so no answers until Sunday morning. That morning I was given a follow up x-ray to see where barium went in that time. 

Doctor came in for his morning visit. He concluded that my digestive system was slower than normal to begin wakening up. This allowed gas to build up, nausea to hit bad, and no movement of any kind. Bowel sounds were silent longer than normal. That was easing up in the hospital so IV fluids obviously was needed while things started to wake up. Then I asked to come home!

I was able to finally come home that early afternoon. I was able to do very well on my clear liquid diet. I have to start all over in the stages to work with my digestive system as it slowly awakens. Today is my final day of clear liquid diet. Tomorrow I begin my two weeks of stage 2 full liquid diet. So I am essentially a week behind schedule with a huge amount of IV fluid weight to lose. It is discouraging. I went into this down to 217 pounds. Now I have to battle down from 232 from IV gain.

Right now I could truly enjoy some damn cottage cheese. Tomorrow. I would also enjoy some beans. A couple more weeks. I just hope nothing else pulls me off track and weight loss can begin. It would totally blow if I am delayed just enough to dip into the week 3 stall without any loss. The only good thing is that I really do not have a lot of weight to lose. I could never be a member of the hundred pound loss club..just do not have that much to lose. So although this part is slow, I do believe I will be at goal at a faster rate.

Okay..back to sipping....