6 weeks out!

Dec 18, 2009

Today is my 6 week surgiversary!  Super weird that after thinking about surgery and researching and waiting all that time, here I am 6 weeks post-op.  So far I've lost 32 lbs which is certainly awesome, but I just had a vision of it coming off so much faster.  I think the fact that I weigh myself everyday makes it seem like I'm losing slower because I keep seeing the same number over and over.  Oh well.  I'll deal with it.  I like weighing everyday.  I like to know whats going on.

I'm at the point now where I'm learning to eat regular foods and figure out what works for me.  So far I've been pretty lucky; I haven't had many problems with specific foods and I've never vomited (thankfully).  I am having problems figuring out how much food is too much.  Seriously more often than not when I'm eating lately I make myself overfull.  I am measuring but still sometimes it's too much and I'm having a hard time stopping before I get sick.  Sometimes I find myself trying to finish because the food is on my plate or because yesterday I was able to eat that amount.  I'm slowly learning to stop if I'm starting to feel full.  Which is not the old full of pre-op but I can kind of tell.  Unfortunately, the way I tell is that I get kind of bloaty and start burping...  Not something I enjoy doing.  So I still have to figure out how to stop before the bloaty and burping.  Oh well.  It's a process.  I am also not the best at chewing well.  I've gotten things stuck a few times, but the first time was definitely the worst.  I'm getting better each time.  When I start a meal, I have to count to 20 in my head for the first few bites and then it's kind of a habit for the rest of the meal.  I have only had to give two foods up so far and one I should never have eaten anyway: chicken and latkes.  Chicken I tried three times and it got stuck three times so I will be avoiding it until a later date.  Now latkes I know I shouldn't have eaten but it was Chanukkah and I really wanted one so I ate one with Fage and had bad cramping pain.  The next night I did it again, same pain.  I waited a few nights and tried it again, no luck, BUT at least this time I figured it out two bites into it and had very minimal pain instead of having the whole latke and then being sick the rest of the night.  It was still hard for me to stop eating even though it was making me sick.  I made my sister eat the rest so that I wouldn't want to.

Food problems aside, I am doing great on my protein.  I'm getting about 80 - 110 grams a day and I don't even supplement with shakes every day.  I'm just eating super high protein foods and adding low fat cheese onto most of it for extra protein.  So far it's working out.  I'm also doing well on my water.  I get at least 60 oz. a day and usually closer to 80.  Vitamins also have been good.  I get all my multi-vitamins, b-12, and iron, and most of my calcium.  I'm supposed to take 5 calcium a day but I usually only get 4 and sometimes only 3.  It's hard because you have to take them at least 2 hours apart and I don't always have enough hours in my day to take them all.

Bottom line, I know I'm only 6 weeks out but so far I would do it again.  Honestly this has been very easy for me and I've already lost 32 pounds.  I am extremely grateful and look forward to my continuing success. 

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