Connie_S
Feels Like it's Going Soooo Slow!
Jul 28, 2009
OK, when I think rationally about all this, I realize that to have lost 33 pounds in 40 days (from the start of my liquid diet to last Friday: July 24th) is pretty amazing by any standards....but mercy.....I go entire weeks at a time without the scale budging downward and I still have an annoying tendancy to pick up fluid and put on from 2-3 pounds here and there. And when I do that, I hold onto it for several days. Sheesh. I've read so much about people saying how fast it goes, till I think my expectations were way out of line.I guess my age (50) is playing a factor in this. And the arthritis. I can walk now, for 20 minutes or so every other day. But to try to walk every day kills my knees even yet. I really think the weight would come off at a more steady pace if I could walk for 30 minutes every day. Maybe, when I've gotten rid of 50 or 60 pounds, I will be able to do that. I really hope so because I want to make the most of my window of opportunity. I have 200 pounds to loose and my doc doesn't seem to think I will attain that. I've got to show him I can!!
I am still having a problem with nausea. I often get nauseated by the protein shakes, but I have learned I can tone down the sweetness by adding a few more ounces of water. So, mostly, I mix them in 4-5 ounces now. I can get that in within the 30 minute window. And I have also found that nibbling on a saltine cracker when I do get nauseated helps sometimes. Some days, it just doesn't seem to matter what I eat (and I am only eating what I am allowed to have), it isn't going to sit well. And other days, it doesn't seem to matter what I eat, it's going to be fine. There's no rhyme or reason to it that I can find. Generally, the nausea only lasts 30 minutes to an hour after I eat, and is greatly relieved by lying down. But now that I am back at work, I can't do that. So, sometimes it's pretty miserable.
The good news is: This too shall pass. After all, everything does sooner or later! So I am looking forward to better days ahead! Days when I can walk effortlessly wherever I want to go...like maybe the park, or the mall, and shop for clothes in any store that takes my fancy. Days when I can take a regular sized folding chair to the park and sit comfortably while enjoying the music on a summer day and not die from the heat. Days when I don't have to only go to the theater with the chair arms that raise up, because I can now fit into the regular seats! Days when I no longer have to take any blood pressure medicine at all (I've already been able to stop one pill and am on half a dose of the other)! *sigh* I've got a lot to look forward to now!! I am very thankful.
And for anyone who is planning this journey, or who is going through it with me, I wish for better days ahead for you too. Life is just too short to spent it taken prisoner by weight. Blessings to you!! connie
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Morganton, NC
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06/25/2009
Surgery Date
May 27, 2009
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