beachybikegirl
Month 2
Aug 23, 2015
If I thought month 1 was an interesting ride I had no idea what was in store for me during month 2! Where to begin, I'll start with the weight, during month one, I lost 21 lbs in the first 3 weeks then only 4 lbs the last week. Which by any other diet standards 4 lbs in a week is not bad, but when you just lost 21 lbs in 3 weeks you really get greedy for more. My weight loss was slow during month two.
So my mother-in-law, who had been living with us for the last year and half, had a series of strokes which put her in the hospital. My husbands brother flew in from out of country because the doctors said it was serious. So now there was a lot of stress in our house plus a house guest plus family in the hospital which didn't look good. I hadn't told much of my family about my surgery, I mean he was and is out the country for an extended time so it wasn't like I was calling up all my relatives saying "Hey how are you, I'm having the gastric bypass on Thursday." And because he was here for such a serious reason it didn't feel like the right time to mention this but he certainly noticed I was eating differently and less. I also had my gall bladder removed so I mentioned that had happened and I just need to have a soft easy diet. The focus of the month was really on the mother-in-law. In some ways it took the focus of me, my surgery and, my recovery. At the same time, I have just had a major life change, had lots of questions and no one really to talk to. I had one friend who had the surgery but she lives in a different time zone and hard to catch on the phone. Thankfully I found this website OH has differently helped calm my crazy. Any questions or thoughts I have had I can just type it into the search button and low and behold some else has asked this same question and here are some answers.
My mother-in-law passed and we had to fly to New York for her services. While there for a not-so-great reason we tried to sneak in a few "vacation like moments." We have young son and we were supposed to go to Hawaii but as life would have it that was not to be thank goodness we had purchased trip insurance. I wasn't sure how I would handle the food. Sammy's noodles and our favorite pizza joint, I knew would be a challenge. Night one, the family got Sammy's, I was able to eat a small amount, a couple bites of noodles, a bite of a dumpling and some chicken. I felt victorious, I indulged in just a few bites of one of my favorite places. Next was our favorite New York pizza joint, I had ordered a meatball slice, thinking I could at least eat the toppings but the meatball was too spicy. I ended up having a few bites of my son's cheese slice. It was wonderful in so many ways. I used to go there and have 2 big slices and wish for more, this time I had less than 1/2 a slice, was full and satisfied! Now I have to say, I was 7 weeks out at this point, if I were at home I would not have had pizza but I was in New York it was a moment with my family and I feel great victory over this moment.
There was also a big family lunch at a Chinese restaurant. The menu was preset, and I didn't think to ask what was on it. I brought a protein bar incase it was going to be stuff I couldn't eat. The first course came out and it was cold cuts and jellyfish. So I broke out the protein bar, I had about half it when the 2nd, course came out, there was some beef so I had a couple pieces and then 7 more courses came out... I had no idea! I felt silly for eating half my protein bar when there was plenty of protein options. I had a bite of chicken and that was it. It felt pretty good to eat very little and stick to the plan. Although I did have some people just put food on my plate and tell me I wasn't eating enough. I just politely giggled and said I was full.
Now up until this point for month two I had lost only 6 lbs, SO disappointing, I was hoping for another 20 and I was no where near that goal. I kept reading as much as I could here on OH and I thought I am going to go back to what I was doing in the first 3 weeks be super strict and finish this month as strong as possible! So for my last week of month 2, week 8 since surgery, I returned to work, (I'm a teacher) It is a busy week of prepping my classroom and attending meetings. I had a protein shake in the morning on the way to work, protein bar for lunch, string cheese snack, by the time I left work I had already 57 grams of protein. then I would eat some chicken or fish for dinner. The week flew by and when I weighed in on Saturday I was down 4 lbs which I was quite happy after have 4 weeks of losing only 1-3lbs.
When I look at other people's stats, there is a trend of a large first month and smaller second month so closing out the month with a 10lb loss is not too bad. I also have my period going wacky, I have had it every other week since my surgery! So that's been fun too!
Looking forward to what happens during Month 3!
