4 week post ~ op appt.

Jan 31, 2011

 I was hoping so much that I wouldn't need packing in my main incision. I thought it had been healing up nicely. I guess  Dr. Naim's assistant Carolyn agreed because she took a look and really felt around for any hollowness, a sign of improper healing, and said it felt solid and like scar tissue, then she cleaned it and put a regular band aid on it. YAY!


We discussed my issues with getting proper nutrition in this week..... that some days I just didn't eat anything. Also my water intake. I am really working on that. It's so different now that I can't gulp down a pint at a time. I mean I love water. I don't have a soda habit or really even a coffee habit, and staying away from coffee since it is dehydrating anyway. I drink herb teas.

Dr. Naim gave me clearance to eat soft food.  I need to eat something 3 times a day, as much as I can. Protein first.
Now I can also try watermelon, cantaloupe, mangoes, apple w/o the skin, sweet potato and even maybe some salad chewed up. I don't have to puree it all anymore.

I was excited and went to the grocery store to buy some cantaloupe and watermelon and a bag of iceberg lettuce salad ( figured that would go down easiest since it's is mostly water anyway) some Newman's own Asian light dressing, some edamae , some lentil soup, one sweet potato,  lite ranch.

 I sampled a fresh cherry while at the store, and it's been several hours no problems.  it took me about 5 or 6 bites to even eat the cherry, well it was a big one....

I just don't get it when people say stay away from fruit, yet admit to "cheating" on chips and other stuff! I mean how much fruit are you actually going to eat anyway? a couple a bites? three at the most? and fruit has enzymes, vitamins, water and fiber as well. At the moment my weight loss is  very good, and on good days I get in about 600 or so calories; bad days 200. I would think that when one starts to seriously work out one would need some extra carbs, and when one is doing maintenance one is trying to be like a normal person in maintaining their weight. I think it is all a trade off really, some eat a little candy some eat a little fruit...... I  was told by my Doc's to try fresh fruit last visit. The visit prior she noticed my coconut WATER and wanted to look at the stats; commented that it didn't look bad it has electrolytes, sugar content isn't too high, no fat.


 Now I get home and put this all away, and... ha ha I want none of it. I sit here sipping water while typing.

My stomach does not like (at the moment):

1. eggs
2. fish of any kind, no tuna, no sole no salmon no sardines no herring ( no omegas?) have to ask Dr. about this~ those little red krill oil thingys I keep seeing on TV are teeny compared to the horse pill size regular omegas.
3. chicken
4. peanut butter


food in general.....

 I will really try, even if it is a couple of bits or sips of protein shake. This sounds way better then jello, pudding , syrup and crap filled with aspartame, and possibly splenda  which the former is greatly suspected to be cancer causing.  I buy stevia in the raw. It's cool how it has caught on outside the raw food movement. In Japan they have used it a  sweetener for about 40 years, in various products, with no adverse health problems noted. 



~ CBS reports newwww.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/health/webmd/main712605.shtml study links aspartame to cancer/ leukemias.


My weight loss is right on target, and I feel better and more positive. I can feel the weight loss, and I know my heart is grateful because it doesn't have to pump/build extra blood vessels to 27 lbs of useless fat anymore.

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