7 Months Post Op

Jul 14, 2010

Here I am, 7 months post op.  This month has been a bit of a challenge.  My weight hasn't really done anything but stalled out on me.  Which, I'm really not worrying about so much.  There's a reason for it and it's called lack of exercise.  Aside from two nights ago, I haven't exercised in a good couple weeks.  I was sitting here and trying to understand why I'm not moving or actually lacking the energy.  I think it's a combination of things quite honestly.  First, it's been extremely humid around here and that seems to just knock me on my butt...strips my energy and I don't want to do much of anything!  But the other thing is that I'm supposed to be on a thyroid medicine and I ran out of those pills about a month ago.  At that time I didn't even have enough money to get the refill so I've been going without those for about a month.  I take them for an underactive thyroid.  I did just get the refill Sunday and have started taking them again.  So between the humidity and not getting those pills in - I think that's what's to blame for my lack of activity.  And maybe a bit of laziness too.

I've tried a protein bar recipe that I got from my You Tube friend gastricrose.  They weren't bad.  Here's the video for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDtSLqywYg&playnext_from=TL&videos=eWwUzzwGoJE.   She also shared her quick breakfast as well and I tried a version of that.  I didn't think of it much as a breakfast, but it made for a mighty fine snack.  Here's what I did:

1/2 cup cottage cheese
3 oz. honey vanilla greek yogurt (Yoplait brand is what I used)
2 spoons of blueberry preserves.

Mix it up.  Enjoy.  This snack provides 18 grams of protein.  The blueberry preserves made this a very nice sweet treat!  I really enjoyed it.  Gastricrose used Apricot preserves and I'm not sure which flavor of greek yogurt she used, but it was Yoplait brand. She also mentioned it was good with Strawberry preserves.  She used the sugar free preserves.  But I didn't because I have found that many of the artificial sweetners make me sick.  So I just either stick with regular cane sugar or I use Stevia. 

I do fine with getting in the protein (via food) and stay away from bread most of the time.  However, on occasion I do have a breakfast sandwich, which is made with an english muffin, ham, egg and cheese.  I can actually get through the entire sandwich now; however, it takes me about 45 minutes or so and is cold by the time I'm done.  I've noticed I seem to be able to eat a little more now so I guess that means my stomach has increased a bit in size?  I still eat very little in comparison though.  I'm completely filled with 1 slice of pizza or 1 hot dog just to give you an idea.  I'm trying hard to keep the carbs at a very minimum because not only do they fill you up so much faster, but I DON'T want to fall into the carboholic routines again and risk gaining any weight back. 

The area I do need to work on still, all these months later, is getting enough fluids in.  Plain water isn't tasty enough for me.  So I usually drink Glaceau Vitamin Water Zero.  Or I'll have lemonade or ice tea.  But I still am only getting about 40 oz of fluid in a day and it's just not enough.  Thinking I need to cut back on the food and up the water.  Yup, 7 months later and I'm still working to balance my food and water.

On another exercise note, I bought myself a jump rope and I also have a new bicycle so I'm planning to kick up the exercise and hope for a better 8 month post op report! 

My weight this morning:  290.5 lbs.

Love and peace to all.  If you read this, leave a comment.  I don't get out here much but if I know that someone is out here, I might visit more :)

Dottie

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