3 weeks after

Sep 01, 2010

Well it was 3 weeks on Monday since I had my surgery.  I'm down 24 pounds since the start of the liquid diet (July 26) and down 14 pounds since the surgery.  I've lost (Aug 9) about 14 pounds since surgery.  That's almost 5 pounds a week.  The nutritionist says that this won't keep up but I should be losing about 2 pounds a week when my body settles down from the surgery.

Right now my whole life is about food.  Needing to either eat or drink almost every hour of the day.  I guess that I am looking forward to not having food be the focus of my whole life.  I am not having any trouble meeting my protein or fluid goals which seems to be a common theme of my friends who have also had the surgery.

The surgery is still on my mind as I have had weird thoughts that they haven't actually done anything to my stomach.  That it's all a psychological ploy to change my eating habits.  I thought that I was being weird but another friend also expressed having the same thoughts. 

One thing about this surgery is that I've cultivated a whole new circle of friends.  I'm glad they are there as theu give me a sounding board to bounce ideas with people who have been there.  Most are so excited about their new lives and the difference this surgery is making in their lives.  Most are down about 70-80 pounds but they are also counting the weight they lost pre surgery.  So about 2 months out it appears they have lost 40 pounds.  I just wish I had managed to lose weight before surgery.  But then I guess that's why I needed this surgery.

I have only had one really bad instance where on the first day I was allowed to have solid food.  I ate a piece of fish and didn't chew it properly.  It just stuck there in my chest and felt like a baseball.  Then whoops it all just came back up.  No feeling of nausea just the pain of feeling like something is stuck and up it came. 

I had intended to keep this blog a bit more faithfully and record all that I was feeling after surgery but now I can't think of the things I thought were important then. 

Now people are coming to me and are asking me questions and it's funny how a lot of their concerns were my concerns almost word for word.  The questioniing of whether they are doing the right thing.  The perception of time when you are waitng of and them getting the date. 

I have been at home for the past 3 weeks and am looking forward to having the next 4 weeks off.  I don't have to be back at word until Sept 27.  I wish that I never had to work again.  This break has made me realize how much my job affects me.  I'm really going to have to look at changing jobs when I get back to work.  I just hate the rejection process that you go through in applying for jobs.  Particulary when the employers are now intent on hiring from outside the company.  I don't even think its fair any more.  But that's a whole other issue not for here.

I promise to try to keep this up more.

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