Almost three months out...

Jun 27, 2010

I'm almost three months out from my surgery and a lot of things have happened and a lot has changed. I can say that I'm beginning to feel more "normal". I do still have problems if I eat veggies that are two undercooked with them not staying down. I also sometimes overeat without realizing until it all of a sudden comes back up. It is still a learning process. I have not noticed much difference in my restriction as far as food is concerned. I can drink water a lot better now and that is all I drink really. I get most of my protein from my food at this point. I'm down 76 pounds at this point and I'm pleased. I had a little setback the first of June. I woke up Saturday the 5th and after my morning trip to the bathroom I noticed I had some pain in my lower right part of my abdomen. I thought it odd and it almost felt like I had to go to the bathroom but I just went ahead and got ready for work and headed on in. The pain began to get worse about 10am and a few times I felt like I was going to be sick. I decided I needed to go home and lay down. I figured I had eaten something wrong. When I got home, I couldn't get comfy and then I tried sitting in the rocking chair and nothing helped. I decided to go to the ER. I thought I might have an obstruction or something related to my DS surgery. My blood work came back fine but the CAT scan showed I had early appendicitis. I was admitted to the hospital Saturday night and had my appendix out on June 6th - almost two months to the day after my DS surgery. I was so bummed. I had just started to get my strength back a little and then I had to start over a bit. I'm about recovered from that surgery and today went out and bought a Wii Fit Plus. My goal is to start exercising at least 5 days a week for 20 minutes each day. Then I'll work my way up to longer. I love the Wii Fit Plus - it is a lot of fun. My husband set up a profile too and he weights much less than me but his fitness age was much higher than mine! That made me feel great. 

Off to try another new recipe tonight - I've been trying new recipes from sparksrecipes.com where you can search by lowcarb and also trying ones from allrecipes.com where I've been searching by type of meat. Tonight is brocolli and ground beef casserole with lots of cheese. Yummy. :) 
 

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