3 Month Surgiversary

Feb 09, 2011

Today is exactly 3 months since surgery and I think I'm doing pretty good. I had an appointment today with my surgeon and at my weigh-in I've lost exactly 70 pounds. I'm pretty excited about that, but I'll be honest, I'm not very excited about the gravity issues I'm having with my skin. Not so sexy. My boyfriend tells me he doesn't care and he'd still think I was sexy if I looked like the monster with all the loose skin and eyeballs in his hands from Pan's Labyrinth (Hahaha, what an image!).

I'm tolerating pretty much everything I eat now, which is great. I'm feeling better about being able to eat real food and not feeling so afraid of it anymore. I know how to eat right and when I do eat right I feel good. The few times I have slipped up I've ended up feeling bloated, sluggish, nauseated, and just plain crappy. I'm trying to get in a more balanced diet, but sometimes it's really hard. Most of the time I end up just eating fish, chicken, or ground turkey with very little or no veggies, and my NP told me I really need to start working on getting more fruits and veggies in.

I'm kind of struggling with my doctor's guidelines. They say I should be eating aroun 700 calories a day, but in order to get in all the protein and veggies I need in 3 meals and 2 snacks I usually eat closer to 900 or so. I also work out almost every day and burn around 1000 calories, so I feel like 700 isn't enough for the intensity of my workouts. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, but also try to incorporate more fruits and veggies in because I don't feel like it's very wise at this point to decrease my calories when I've lost so rapidly.

I'm also having trouble with bathroom stuff. I have random days where I have (avert your eyes if you're squeamish) hours upon hours of liquid diarrhea. Sometimes it lasts all day and I can't even go to work. So today they decided to do a poop test and I had to fill specimin cups, which was pretty much the most disgusting task of my life, and it was my own poop! Anyway, I hope they figure out what's causing that because it is just miserable and seems to be brought on by nothing at all.

If you've read this all the way I appreciate your interest and apologize for the gross details. Haha.

-Andrea

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