Three-Month Update!

Oct 17, 2012

Well, this is my 2nd attempt at posting an update... the last time my laptop spontaneously re-booted in the middle of my typing  So, although there is no way that I can recapture what that post was about, I'll do my best.

The last few weeks have been very stressful- work-wise. I'll avoid the details there because it's pointless to re-hash. However, I'm doing my best to balance my work life with what I need to make my WLS successful. While I'm continuing to lose at a decent pace, lately I'm not satisfied with my lack of regular exercise, water and supplements. My main goal has been to increase my water since last Saturday. I had a very scary episode....

On Saturday, I had breakfast at 10 which consisted of a hard-boiled egg salad with lite mayo, salt, pepper and paprika. (A meal that I've had several times before). About 2 hours later while drinking water, I felt nauseated. I stood up and I immediately had saliva filling up in my mouth as if I needed to vomit. But nothing came up but saliva / water... Of course, I started googling potential causes... postnasal drip came up as a possible reason (TMI). So what do I, gargle with Listerine. Well that was the DUMBEST thing that I could have done because I must have swallowed a bit of it... which led to most God-awful symptom - DRY HEAVING. For those who haven't experienced this torture, dry heaving, at least for me, resonated throughut every nerve ending in your body. I was so exhausted after that episode for at least 12 hours... And  I only dry-heaved for what felt like 10 minutes!! I was so scared that I almost called an ambulance... I was able walk it off / calm myself down enough to call my surgeon's office. When the surgeon on call heard what I had eaten and that I hadn't have any major complications in the last 3 months, he told me to wait 2 hours for stomach to settle and then try to keep down warm liquids. He said that food reactions can be unpredictable. I decided to only eat sem-solid foods for the next day to give my pouch, Sammy, a rest. It's so bizarre, Sammy is great today. No eggs for me for awhile. Sorry for the long story...

Other than that, things have been pretty uneventful. More folks keep asking me if I've lost weight over the last week. I think because I started buying smaller clothes it's become more noticeable.  I feel a bit guilty when someone asks me what I'm doing and I say that eating healthier and working at it every day. However, it's my body and my business and I get over that fairly quickly. My closest family & friends know and that's all that matters to me.

In order to get me motivated to get my butt in gear, I signed up to run in the Color Me Rad 5K in December. Now, I'm training and I (me!) actually jogged for the first time in SEVEN years. It felt great.

Well, I've rambled enough, peeps! I'll do a better job of blogging more often to avoid these looooong essays.  I hope that everyone is doing great! Ya'll are my inspiration and motivation. Life is GRAND on the Losers' Bench!!!!

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