Random Things

Aug 01, 2010

Random Things Share  Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 7:43am | Edit Note | Delete So...today I have officially been back to work for 1 month. It's been a rollercoaster ride of sorts, but I am still hanging in there and SURVIVING! Things are so different during your 6 weeks recuperating time that when it is time to go back to work ...it is a shock to the system. No matter how much you try to prepare for it. I was extremely worn out the first week back to work but now 1 month later it is better.

During this first month back to work, of course, I got to eat different foods during this time also so two big things going on at the same time. I tried lettuce from a salad for the first time at our work cafeteria and that made me soooooo sick and it didn't agree with me nor stay with me. So needless to say I haven't touched lettuce since, it will have to be a lot longer time before I embark on that again. Speaking of food intolerances, I've also had problems with tuna. One day i can eat it just fine the next time it says "let me out NOW" and out it slithers. I have had issues with cabbage as well.

Knock on wood, I haven't had any food issues this week. I am trying to make smarter choices and think about what I am putting in and how I put it in so it doesn't want to see the light of day again. :) I have been eating a lot of salmon, even tried shrimp and that went well. I don't eat fruit and I know I should be doing that and will work on that.

One thing I have found hard to do since I have been back at work is to get my daily walking in. I am trying and today I am off so I am going to walk walk walk. I still have a ways to go on weightloss but I haven't regretted this decision at all, even though at times I have felt like I was having morning sickness all over again, this has truly been the greatest thing I have ever done for myself!! All in all I feel sooo much better. I still have a fear of going up or down steps so that is why I still ride the elevator (dont laugh people have asked me why I don't take the stairs?)

I have gotten a lot of nice comments and please bare with me I am still not used to this, this is all new to me!! I am getting better accepting them....I've also gotten some not so nice comments about why didnt I try different diets etc, excuse me, first of all I did try everything before having this surgery done, and second of all it's NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS...it's my body, last time I checked!!

My family I think was a bit skeptical when I first told them I wanted to have this surgery done but they have all come a long way in their support since I have had the surgery and they see how well I am doing. It is so weird for me personally to think back about the day of the surgery, I was NEVER nervous or scared, I felt a complete calm and I knew I was doing the right thing. This is coming from someone that said she would NEVER have that surgery. Now that's what I call a miracle of sorts, it has been my silver lining......................

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