I Wanna Be a Vegetarian, So Freakin’ Bad – Four Weeks Post-Op!!

Dec 12, 2012

 

My stomach is mouthy…and it’s latest beef is that it hates beef…well, really all meat…except fish.  It’s okay with fish.  It’s not even too crazy about eggs.  I tried a hot dog the other day that it didn’t mind too much…but ground beef, chicken that is too dry, anything like that…forget it.  Not having it.  Thankfully I have been eating protein shakes for breakfast and a protein bar for a snack, otherwise, I would not be getting my protein in.  Don’t get me wrong, anytime I sit down to a meal I go for high protein, low carb, low sugar, but my stomach does not like it…unless it’s fish.
I think it might have something to do with just not being completely healed yet.  Here are things my stomach loves:

 

1. Rice pudding – I could eat this all day, every day…unfortunately the only benefit from eating it is how good it makes my stomach feel.
2. Sugar free Popsicles – there’s water in these, right?  Hope so.
3. Low Fat Yogurt – Yoplait anything is da bomb…especially red velvet cake!  Oooh la la!
4. Reduced Sugar Apple Sauce with cinnamon – yum!
5. Sugar free pudding

 

So you see, even though I have been able to eat regular foods for over a week now, my stomach isn’t too crazy about them, so soft foods are still where it’s at for now.

 

I have yet to get sick again like I did in weeks 2 & 3, thank goodness.  It is noticeable how much better my stomach is getting at digesting more complex foods.  I try to be gentle with it.

 

In other news, my incisions are healing very well.  I’ve got one between my ribcage that apparently opened at one point and that’s the one I’m having the most trouble with, but even it’s starting to close up.

Let’s see…vitamins!  Oh, vitamins!  I despise the Flinstones with Iron vitamins I have and they don’t even have enough Iron in them…so I think I’m going to order some chewable special Iron vitamins and kick these to the curb.  Our calcium chews are okay though.  So I think I give myself a C for vitamins.  I really need more iron…especially since my silly lady parts have been wanting to bleed off and on since I got back from Mexico.  I think they’re confused…but either way…

 

As for my personal favorite, bowel habits!  Weeee!  Well, in short, I don’t poop unless I take a laxative in the morning.  Basically it.  This is helpful because I control when I poop, but not helpful because if I skip the laxative (which I’ve done on occasion) I feel overly full for the entire day.  Another downside?  My trips to the bathroom have been accompanied by painful stomach cramps.  Today wasn’t too bad, so maybe they will eventually stop…one can only hope.

 

Other than that, my energy level is staying pretty constant as long as I have half my protein bar for a morning snack.  This is how my food habits have been as of late:

Breakfast: Protein shake with at least 20g of protein

AM Snack: ½ a protein bar – 10g of protein

Lunch: Something high in protein – either grilled chicken, fish, or sometimes ground beef

PM Snack: ½ a protein bar – 10g of protein

Dinner: High protein as well – pretty much the same as lunch.

Sometimes Late Snack: Most likely rice pudding to calm my stomach.

 

If I stick to this, my energy stays up.  If I skip the AM snack like I did today, I am tired like I am now.  Boo.  Oh well, ya’ live, ya’ learn.

 

Hope everyone is having a good day!

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