Feeling crazy.....especially today....

Your emotions are totally normal. You are doing great Crystal keep up the good work........... walk, get your fluids in & rest . Next year at this time you will look back and remember how hard it was , but you will see how awesome you look and feel and say wow it was worth all that. Having a support group to go to will help alot. Our emotions go up & down and the support of others going thru the same thing helps so much. You will do fine, just keep remembering every day gets better. Take 1 day at a time. Take a deep breath read a good book or watch some funny shows and relax...... Take Care

Number one -- give Mom credit for being concerned about you. Sounds like she needs more information about WLS and the post-surgery process. And yep ... this first week has been a lot harder than I expected. By now I expected to be "back to normal" -- 7 days post-op. But guess what? There's still a lot of pain (especially gas at night) and yesterday it was all I could do not to crunch on a carrot rather than make another bleh protein shake. Y'know what? Doesn't matter. Each of us responds as best we can. Each day is getting a little better. Pushing myself to walk helps enormously (we were reduced to walking at Meijer yesterday - everything else was closed). Yesterday was actually a day of wonder for me. It's like having surgery lifted some kind of "mental block" out of my head, and suddenly, I was visuallizing all these things I could do in the future that just weren't options for me because of my size in the past. There's a whole lot of good things out there to focus on, to help get past the here and now. Chin up! Let's go do another hall lap!

Hey Sweetie Sorry you had a rough day of it yesterday but we all heal at our own pace. Maybe your mom is just worried about you. I have been out with make up on and walking the malls. I walked the Mall today with my daughter and bought more yummy protein, and then in the afternoon I walked Walmart. I am having no pain just a bit of aching. I finally got in all my proteint and fluids today so that was good. and you know what by the weekend you'll be great.... I am sure. anytime you need to talk just let me know!! XO Elisa