Ten Days Post-OP and 15 pounds gone!

Dec 20, 2008

This is just hard for me to believe. It doesn't feel like I've lost anything and I didn't want to be jumping on the scale everyday. I read that it doesn't show up until about a week because they fill you full of gas (but I didn't have that problem!)

So I did my first official weigh in, jumped on the scale and it said 204.5. I couldn't believe it. That is 15 pounds down from where I weighed in 9 days ago! Huh. How about that?

I'm healing really fast and well, I'm back at work and fully engaged (because I have no other choice). I'm on liquids until next Tuesday, but it's OK, I don't seem really hungry although occasionally I do get hungry but a sip or two later I'm fine.

I can't believe I have been able to survive on liquids like this. I think of it as giving my poor overworked body a good vacation and I don't like my vacation being cut short so neither would it.

It's just weird, like tonight, we were having dinner, DH looked over at my soup bowl which was 3/4 full. "You didn't like your soup?" I did, I'm just full! How can that be?

And the big bonus? I took my blood sugar. Of course, the battery had run out and took me days to get to the store to get a new one, blah, blah, blah. Guess what? it was 90. I don't think I've EVER had 90 before. Well good for me!

The only issue I have had is that I think I developed some lactose intolerance which they say can happen and may last a few months. Yep. Three times I've had milk and three times I've had a reaction, so I have to figure out how people deal with that.... some kind of pill maybe?

All in All I'm pretty happy about this right now

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