Feeling pretty good, TOOK A REAL SHOWER!!

Whew, ta king a real shower was great.  I feel so much better now.  I even put on my makeup which made me feel more like me.  I did some walking yesterday which really helped get some of that gas out.  LOL I never thought I would be so excited to pass gass!  My husband has been taking real good care of me so this morning I got up and made him breakfast.  He was thrilled!

Strange thing even though I don't feel hungry I find myself thinking about eating ALOT!!  This makes me feel like a loser who had a food addiction which I did not think that I had.  I almost think that I am sad about the loss of my friend food.  Strange.

I am going to attempt to do some work for my college classes, they are all online.  I haven't touched it since the surgery.

About my stitches, is it normal for them to be red around the area?

Amanda

Hey Amanda

You are a much better person than I am!!  Since I can't eat it I don't cook it.   My DH has been cooking for himself and our daughters although I've offered suggestions on what to cook and bought the groceries.  Right now it's just too hard to be in the room while they're eating things I love and not to dive in head first!  In  a couple of weeks I'll take over the cooking again since I really do love to cook and I've already collected about 18 pages of lap band friendly recipes to try.
 
In the last couple of days I've been finding myself thinking more and more about food and missing it.  When that happens I'll go fix myself a cup of decaf hot tea and that seems to help.

When I saw Dr. Morans PA the week after surgery she said my incisions were fine but to keep an eye on the redness.  If the red area starts getting large or draining or anything to give them a call.  She also told me to keep the plastic/glue stuff on and let it come off by itself.  What on earth is that stuff??  Have you seen the PA?  I just love her to death.
Keep on improving!
Ann

Hi Mandy,

I have to confess that I was much more like Ann than you when it came to preparing meals for the first few weeks. Thank goodness Ben is such a trooper and was willing to handle it all. I had hard time with hunger for a while, but it did get better. I remember absolutely obessing about food, but if it makes you feel better, I'm here to report that it all seems to balance out. I don't think about food more or less now than I did before. Meaning that I don't obsess over it. I am somewhat more thougthful about what and how much I consume, but I don't think I'm obessive about it. I think it's pretty normal to be fixated on food early on, because you are literally starving for a while.

Congratulations on such a good start...

Enjoy the weekend,

Barb

You are doing great! hubby was on his own as far as food.. basically even after a year he still is LOL I bet it did feel good to take a real shower and you are NOT a loser for thinking about food!! you are a WINNER for doing something about it so you can get healthy

Darcie

Yeah that first shower was wonderful for me too. I don't feel hungry either but I am a little worried that I am not getting enough calories right now. I think my two protein drinks only give me less than two hundred and I don't always want to eat a SF popcicle or SF jello. It took me two days to finish one jello. And there are nearly no calories in them either. But I see the NUT on Monday and I am sure she will adjust my diet to something else soon.

Hi Mandy,
Glad to read you are doing so well.
The others are right keep a close eye on any reddness and call your doctor if if seems to get worse asap.
You are not a failure because you think about food.
I dream about food sometimes and when I wake up and relize it was only a dream and I am happy.
Are you and Robert going to go to the zoo with all of us on October 4th?
                                       Annie

Ohh yeah that first shower. Wasn't it wonderful ...Do keep an eye on the stitches.  Hope you heal and get back to normal soon.
Myrtis

Ahhh yes, I remember the first shower.  It felt great, but I was kind of worried about incisions, drain, etc.  I didn't cook at all until I could eat, and then I made meals that contained some things that I could eat too.  Because of that, I wasn't too sad about food, except for a certain commercial that I'd see for brownies.  It actually made me cry a few times - oh, the after-sergery hormones.  :)

Hi Mandy! Glad to hear you're doing so well. Something about us women and our showers I was wondering if I would think about food and miss what I couldn't have. I guess it will be like when I quit smoking 20 years ago. I've never stopped wanting a cigarette! Would love to smoke one right now lol. I guess if I can not pick up a cigarette, I can get over not eating so much food anymore. Sometimes now I feel like I just can take eating like this anymore and am so anxious to hurry and have my surgery. I know that I am a food addict and that is a mental thing I will have to keep under control for the rest of my life.

Good luck and hand in there! I bet  the on line classes will help you to keep your mind off food.