9 Days out....

May 20, 2011

Day 9 post op. The first few days were rough but each day gets better and better. Today there is very little pain and I can get around with ease. But I am very light headed and if I exert myself just a little too much I get really weak and get the shakes so I have to lay back down. I was hoping to go back to work yesterday but I just don't think I will make it. A trip to the grocery store yesterday had me feeling like I was about to pass out. I'll go back Monday and I should be better. My first post op appointment is Monday and if all looks good I should be able to move to purees or mushies, at least full liquids. Everything is going down much better now. The first few days I could barely get a swallow of water. I am attributing the weakness to being on just clear liquids. I have never been more excited about eating applesauce and cream of wheat...lol.
I can't believe it but I've actually lost 20lbs since my surgery day. I started at 280 on the day of surgery. Today I weighed 260. I know the losing will drastically slow down. I did some research and yes most of the weight I have lost is water weight.

http://www.atkinsexposed.org/atkins/14/Losing_%28Water%29_Weight.htm

I wanted to understand what was going on in my body so I looked into what is actually happening. Although this is about the atkins diet, it explains what is happening the first few weeks on a diet without carbs. I am still excited and even though most of it is water weight. I told a friend of mine that I lost 20lbs already. Her response, "Well, that is only water weight you know". Said it like it doesn't count. 20lbs is still 20lbs, and I don't believe the whole of the loss is "only water weight". I am surviving off 400 calories a day, I'm sure there is some fat loss in there. Bottom line is the first stage of losing a large amount of weight is losing water weight but the psychological impact of seeing the scale move so drastically has me pumped up and ready to work this sleeve. I can't wait to get on mushies and full liquids and make good choices so the scale keep on moving down. I can't wait to get cleared for exercise so I can work out and tone my body up. I am so glad I made this decision. I'm just ready to get back to healthy and 100% so I can work this sleeve they way it is meant to be.

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