I Feel Suddenly Lighter

Jan 09, 2013

 

Almost to the 8-week Post Op mark!!!

Weeee!  A strong sense of normalcy has taken over around here.  All of our holiday vacation time is over and now it’s back to work all the time…five days a week.  Yuck!  But at least it keeps me busy and moving.  

 

So, what’s been going on with me, you ask?  Well, not really a lot.  I have lost a modest amount of weight and I’m trying not to get antsy, but I wanna lose more!  I wanna, I wanna, I wanna!!!  Okay, I’m going to stop throwing a hissy fit…I’m down to 328 – three pounds away from my 100 lb loss!  Eeeep!  I know that’s a huge deal even though the beginning of it was lost pre-op due to a low calorie diet.  Someone told me that because I lost 60 lbs pre-op I didn’t need the surgery…I was like, SCREW YOU BUDDY!  Between you and me and the whole world, I was starting to slip on that diet and I actually gained ten pounds back before I went to Mexico.  I remember having wild and crazy binges pre-op and I’m so glad those are a thing of the past.  I used to have a serious problem with binge eating and it’s really impossible to binge eat anymore, so PROBLEM SOLVED!  Well, for the most part.  Sometimes my wacky head and that food monster comes out and wants to eat a lot, but I must be keeping it in check because I haven’t gotten sick on anything since those first few weeks *RUNS AROUND FRANTICALLY LOOKING FOR WOOD TO KNOCK ON* 
 

Speaking of eating, I am able to eat pretty much anything I want at this point (I have yet to dump, which is surprising), but some things go down better than others.  Chicken is kind of difficult for me, but I can stomach it.  Most beef is really tough to get down.  Some bread is kind of tough…mostly if it’s dry.  Heavy tomato sauce usually requires me to take a Prilosec before I start eating.  Pickles are a little tough which makes me sad because I LOVE me some pickles…my fave?  The Hearty Garlic ones from Claussen.  YUMMY!  My favorite is taking a piece of sliced turkey, a little bit of Miracle Whip, a tad bit of cheese, and wrapping it all around a sliced pickle…OMG…soooo good…but then my stomach is like, “What the…?!  SMACK, SMACK BITCH!”  I have eaten all other ingredients elsewhere without that result, so I know that’s what it is. 

 

As for water intake, I’m still not getting in 64 oz…how do you all do it?  I literally have a glass of water with me at all times and I have yet to reach the total.  I probably get pretty close because I actually go to bed with a glass of ice water every night, and I can tell when I haven’t drank enough because I get a headache and dry-mouth, but I am pretty sure I haven’t been getting in the minimum.  *Sigh*

 

In other news, I’ve talked about bowel movements on here and I’m going to do it again.  I’m not 100% sure if this remedy for constipation really worked or if I’m just attributing it to this because I hadn’t eaten or drank anything else this morning, but it’s worth a shot.  If you’re a coffee drinker, I made a half a pot and when I put my grounds in, I shook about three shakes of salt in it.  I had heard that this would cut down on the bitter taste of coffee because normally I can’t stand black coffee.  I still haven’t drank it black, but that’s beside the point.  I put the salt in and poured myself a cup with a little creamer in it like I always do and sipped on it while I was getting ready for work.  Well, twenty minutes in, all of a sudden I had a massive urge to go to the bathroom, so I went with it and ran in there and proceeded to have a humongous bowel movement – and being so newly post-op, those kind of bowel movements are few and far between.  Well, then I went back to what I was doing and then not five minutes later, I had to go back and proceeded to have another HUGE bowel movement.  Two in thirty minutes?  WTH? 

So the only thing I can think is that it’s because of the added salt in my coffee.  Coffee has been known to move my bowels before, but NOTHING like this.  I had heard awhile back that drinking dissolved Epsom salts in water would cause that, so maybe it’s related.

So if you’re having issues pooping, try coffee with a pinch of salt in the grounds…Holy colon-cleanse!  A word to the wise though, the second bowel movement had some stomach cramping with it, but I can only assume that was because I must have been backed up for awhile and the stool just felt they had found a home, like those Mucinex things. 
 

Anyway, that’s all to report for now.  I’m looking at my clock and noticing that it’s closing time! 

Hope everyone is doing well, living, loving, and losing!
 

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