May, 2009. Three months post DS

May 09, 2009

How I'm doing:   GREAT!

I've lost weight after the first two weeks after the surgery, when I had a blockage and didn't poo at all, and didn't lose a pound.   As soon as that cleared up, I started losing weight.   

I'm having a three month stall right now, but I'm not too concerned about it.   I've been reading the DS board long enough to kind of have expected it to happen.   I also read enough to know that I should take measurements, especially during the stall.   People say that during a stall, the measurements still decrease, and that's true too!    I've always been the one that doesn't react to things the way other people do.    So this is great to be following along the path of so many others who have had such spectacular success.   I dare to hope for a (largish) fraction of that.

I am pretty much doing an Atkins like diet.   I've been avoiding pretty much all processed carbohydrates.   The only carbs I've been getting have been in the veg I eat.   I even have stayed away from fruit to avoid the carbs.   I have the occasional grape or bite of banana - I had three large grapes this afternoon.   Yumm    In the period between having the sleeve and the DS, I started craving sweets.   That was weird.   I'm very thankful that those cravings stopped after having the DS.   From time to time, I wish I could have a regular sandwich.   Or fantasize about a bit of ciabatta bread, or noodles.   But I'm certainly not suffering for lack of those things.

My entire life, I've hated bacon.   HATED it.   My daughter once told a friend when we were out to lunch and I was picking the bacon off my side salad (I would have ordered it without bacon if it had occurred to me that they'd put bacon on a SIDE SALAD) that I'm afraid of bacon.   Not afraid, just disgusted by it.   After I got over the whole process of working my way back up to solid foods, I slowly became.....  Bacon Curious!    I thought about bacon for a couple of weeks, and finally we got a pound of bacon.   I've griped about bacon and the horrible smell in the house for so many years that it's rubbed off on my husband, who used to LOVE bacon.   So I'm not supposed to cook it when he's around.   Well, we got a brand that's not super-smoky tasting.   I don't like that smoky taste, still.   But it took me less than two weeks to go through an entire pound of bacon!    Nobody who ever knew me would have believed that!

So - to sum up (because it's too late to say "to make a long story short") I feel great.   I have more energy than I've had, and I've been able to tolerate more and more activity.   I can do individual things easier and with less huffing and puffing and making a schmagilla out of it.    I'm still huge.   I still have the size of a normal adult human being to lose.   But I'm happy and upbeat, and optimistic.   It hasn't solved all my problems.   I still have kidney disease.   I still have to take ProCrit to force my body to make red blood cells.   I still have to take insulin for diabetes.   But I truly think that, as I lose weight, even if all those things fail to disappear or even get appreciably better, everything else will be so much easier and better for me that it'll still be 100% worth it!

Dennie

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