FINALLY!!!!!

Apr 21, 2009

Hey y'all!!! To God be the Glory!!! Finally the surgery is complete. I am now 1 week post-op. Glad to say that everything went smoothly, no incidents, no complications...praise God.

So now I am on my 2nd week of my liquid diet and next week I get to move to pureed foods for 2 weeks....yeah!!!!!! Then after that, I will slowly work my way into solid food....

I thank God for the team at my doc's office. I'm appreciative that they watch us so closely even as far as when to begin the next stage of eating...after all of the reading I've done and horror stories I've heard about people eating too soon, stretching their pouches and even sometimes causing the pouches to develop a leak....nah man.....I'm not trying to be laying on the hospital table again, not after what I have just been through. So on that note, I am going to do EVERYTHING I am told to do!

I went for my 1- week post-op appointment on yesterday and I am down 16 pounds since the surgery on 4/13/09. Total weight loss so far since my FIRST surgery is 33 pounds....so to be one week out and have these kinds of results already I am so amped right now!

Even through all of the pains that I have experienced, the headaches, the head hunger , I would do this all over again because as I get stronger everyday, I thank God for the second chance to live a healthier life and be a better example to my kids. They are so excited about this journey. They are part of it because their lives will be impacted by my changes because the last thing I ever want for them is for them to struggle their whole lives with weight the way I did and then have to get wls....nah, I'm gonna teach them what I have learned so they dont have to experience what I had to go through!

Keep me in y'all prayers! I will keep you posted!

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