Maybe I don't dump or won't be too bad.

Oct 26, 2009

I was helping my husband bake a cake for my son's cub scout Halloween party.  I had a tub of whipped buttercream frosting.  After he was done frosting the cake, I have no freaking idea what the heck happened, I completely lost my mind and didn't even realize until after I did it, that, OMG, I just ate a huge spoonful of frosting.  Honestly, I had a moment where I completely forgot that I had a gastric bypass.  It's like the moment was so real and so typical of me pre-bypass, that I completely lost sense of the fact that I had surgery.  So anyway, after I swallowed it, I sat there and instantly obviously remembered, wow, WTH did I just do.  I was waiting and waiting and panicking that I just ruined my night... convinced I was going to dump dump dump.  

Well, 6 hours later, I'm still fine.  Is this a sign that I may not be a dumper? I read online that only 30% of RNY patients are dumpers.  Of course spending so much time on OH, you'd think the percentage would be more, but this is a concentrated amount of people on here, so it seems like everybody dumps.  Could I actually be in the group that doesn't?  I can say, that may be a nice thing, but also a curse at the same time.  It's not like I'll be testing the waters too much, at least for the first 18 months.  Before I had this surgery, I told myself it would be nice to live the life of "everything in moderation".  Which means, if I want to have a sweet someday, I can without physical reprecussions.  I'm sooo early out though that it could all change.  Some people start dumping a few months out spontaneously.... that could be me I guess.  I don't really know how much sugar was in my giant scoop of frosting, but I'm sure it's a lot.

For my birthday I had a very small scoop fo Breyer's no sugar added ice cream.  It has 4g of sugar and 5g of sugar alcohols.  I did fine on that.  I did have a small lick of frosting on my finger off of my birthday cake.  I was still fine.  

Aside from all this dumping talk, I am having a hard time adjusting to soft foods.  I did ok on some chicken, and today I made an egg rosette from Cleopatra_Nik's profile and it was good.  I have gotten stuck twice though now.  It's not a pleasant thing to have happen, but I am a pro at getting stuck because when I had the lapband, even though I chewed to mush I still got stuck all the time, especially on stuff that was really thick going down.  So anyway, I'm afraid to try new foods.  I tend to go back to my mushies or liquids instead of trying a new food.  It's really hard for me to move on to a new food though.  I hope I snap out of it someday.  Yesterday for dinner I successfully had a slice of turkey, a couple tablespoons of mashed potatoes and one stalk of cauliflower and had no problems though so that is promising.

I'm tired of yogurt (as good as it is), and I'm tired of cottage cheese.  I need to get creative!

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