One Month

Feb 28, 2017

Tomorrow (Wed) will be my one month surgaversary!  I'm in a stall, which is expected, but I'm down 15 lbs since day of surgery, so that's a reasonable loss for the first month.

So far I haven't had trouble with any particular food.  I'm not sure if that's good or bad.  I suppose the good part is that I don't need to feel deprived or regretful that some food that I love has been taken away from me.  But this means discipline / battling head hunger is going to be much harder.

I had a cookie the other day.  Nibbled a bite.  Then ate the whole thing.  It was a small cookie, a cream cheese sugar cookie that my daughter made, not one of those huge commercial cookies or anything like that but still. A cookie.  I didn't dump.

On Sunday I ate 1200 calories, higher than any day since surgery.  Yikes!!  I let myself get too hungry, and I made a couple dubious food choices.   Not that 1200 calories itself is particularly devastating.  One more week and a couple days, and I move to Stage 4 of my diet and the goal is 1000-1200 cals a day, so it's not that horrible.   It's just so far outside of my normal intake right now.  I had stomach issues all day today as a result -- by that I mean diarrhea and cramping/gas, not pain in my actual stomach.  

I miss being able to guzzle liquids when thirsty.  That hurts!  

Missed a day here, a day there of my vitamins but pretty much otherwise remember to take them all every day.  Omeprazole is non-negotiable, same with Mirapex for RLS.  I'm still having issues with RLS, so probably need to add back in magnesium (Natural Calm). 

The big thing about starting Month 2 is that my working out restrictions are lifted:  I'm free to start the MPC workouts and not just walk!  I'm still so tired, but hope that the exercise will result in more energy over time once I adjust.  

Tired O'Clock is all day every day now, but I hear it gets better.  Looking forward to the brain fog lifting eventually too.  I'm not producing at work like I should be because I just can't focus.  I wonder if higher caloric intake would help with that (the moving up to 1000 to 1200 cals a day).  We'll see in a week or so!

I plan to schedule a DEXA scan here shortly to get my body composition.  It's not exactly 100% "before", but still early enough on to compare later.  I'm going to pay the extra for the bone density scan portion of it too.

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