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Hi..In a slightly better mood than yesterday...and  I mean ever so slightly. Having my last meal of the day..lol.  Took 2oz of broiled chicken added a drop of low FAT MAYO and a hell of alot of dried dill. Put it in the ninja blender...and what do you get...Chicken salad for dinner. Wow..but at least it had some taste!! This early AFTERNOON I TRIED SOMETHING NEW...2oz of jarred baby food..Turkey with broth.  Now I know why babies cry and spit up...totally tasteless. Definitely needed salt or pepper or something. 

A suggestion for something fairly tasty.  Go to Wendys and get an order of their take out low fat chili. The low fat chili has only 5 grams of fat and I believe 8 or 10 grams of protein. I take it home..and puree it in the Ninja blender.  It is real tasty...especially if you sprinkle a bit of no fat cheese on it and nuke it up. Never thought I'd say yum to Wendy's , but it is real tasty and filling. I'm getting real bored with the puree menu. only 6 more days to the semi-solid food stage.

I'm trying to hang in there...but i am still bummed about my decision. Speak to ya soon.

hi. had a real tough weekend.  I am seriously doubting my decision to do the surgery. (yeah , i realize that it's a little late for that since I underwent the surgery two weeks ago). Here's what I am feeling... Everyone now is in total agreement that I will never be able to eat like I used to. But I can honestly say that  eating is  and was one of my life's pleasures.(Right behind you know what) lol lol  Even though it's not healthy to eat like I want (large portions, fattening foods, wine and drink with meals, etc), I still was making a conscious choice to indulge that way..to enjoy this pleasure to the FULLEST.  Now that will never be the same.

So now that that has been taken away from me forever, what am i ABSOLUTELY GAINING ON THE OTHER HAND. I've got numerous medical problems- diabetes type 2 (insulin dependent for at least 10 years), high cholesterol, heart disease( already have two stents in place), horrific arthritis in my knee (so bad that I require a knee replacement in the future), super enlarged prostrate...need I say more. No one is saying to me that any of these medical issues will go away or even get better as a result of my undergoing the sleeve gastrectomy. All they are willing to commit to is that some of these conditions MAY GET BETTER. Thats just not good enough for me.  If I'm forever giving up one of my life's pleasures (eating like I want), then I at least want something DEFINITE IN RETURN. Simply telling me maybe isn't enough for me. I really didn't think the surgery through properly and thoroughly before I did it....AND I AM REALLY HAVING TROUBLE WITH THE DECISION I MADE . I am actually so miserable with my decision that right now i am even considering looking for a surgeon who will attempt to reverse it. Yeah I know that it has not yet been done...but I might even consider being the experimental fir

BTW I have lost 20.2 lbs in the first 14 days.  Unfortunately just massive weight loss will not replace the loss of one of my pleasures (as I've said above). I am really messed up about this.  Speak with ya soon. 

Just kidding. The last two days have been tough however. Yesterday at about 5:30 pm I had my "Dinner" which was pureed turkey breast.My wife had grilled up the turkey breast and then pureed it for me. YUM. About two hours after finishing, I was at my daughters house and was sipping some decaf coffee (about a half cup over a one hour period).  We went home and suddenly I started  feeling pretty bad cramping in my stomach....followed by about 2 1/2 hours visiting the toilet bowl. Nice way to end a really good day, right?

Fast forward to today: No problems with my early morning 2oz of cottage cheese and no problem with my late morning 2oz of egg salad...but then it got interesting. Yesterday, to change it up a little my wife decided to grill me up a pork chop and then puree it. I decided that would be my early afternoon meal...2oz of pureed pork. Double yum!! I waited an hour after eating, took a small sip of water.......and I have been throwing up since (it is now 5 hours of throwing up...including 3 times out my car window while I was driving home. Lucky no accident.)

Spoke to the dietician and she feels that the meats-turkey and pork--weren't pureed enough. It seems that the consistency of the puree has to be like that of baby food. Guess my wife didn't do that...so that's why i am joking about her attempting to kill me. Really though, she has been totally fantastic; I really love her for being her to help me through this experience. Speak with Ya soon.

Monday morning..and one week post surgery. First time stepping on the scale.....DOWN 17.6 POUNDS!!!!! WOW. Pretty good I guess.

Next milestone: Starting tomorrow I can Eat real food (pureed). 2-3 ounces every three hours.   Boy that will be a relief from the every twenty minutes of liquids that I've been existing on for the last week. I'll let you know ....see ya soon

P.S. Anybody out there reading this blog. If yes, try to contact me, please.

Its Sunday night and I am really looking forward to tomorrow morning with a lot of anticipation. It will be 7 days after my sleeve gastrectomy surgery, and the first time I will be stepping on a scale.  I can feel that I've lost a good deal of weight, but I really want to know exactly how much. I promise that I will fill everyone in tomorrow.

Got outside today for a little over an hour. Even though I was just sitting in the passenger seat of the car (being driven around by my wife), it still felt great to get out of the house. Plus, I went for two walks today--a short one this morning and a much longer one about two hours ago. No problems at all.

You know that it's pretty bad when you have to go to two different areas in a supermarket searching for different flavors of fat free/sugar free pudding or jello.This eating of liquids every twenty minutes is really, really boring and is really getting pretty tiresome.I'm looking forward to Tuesday when i am able to start eating pureed solid food. YUM. Speak to ya soon.

Wow. This is real strange. I thought there would be more pain. The only time that I take the pain meds are during the night. I sleep mostly on my stomach and my weight puts a little too much pressure on the incision sites. So right before bedtime I take 10 or 15 ml of the pain med and I am dead asleep for the next four straight hours. Repeat again and I now have 8 hours of restful sleep.

I actually sat up and did work at my home from 8am to 5pm.I am a sole practitioner attorney in NYC, and I knew that the surgery would keep me out of the office for a least a week. I planned ahead and brought home plenty of work.  The hardest problem today wasn't doing the actual work. It was doing the work while the stupid kitchen cooking timer went off every twenty minutes--reminding me it was time to "eat". The first week post surgery is constant "eating"-- every twenty minutes for all your waking hours.  Eating is the operative word--if you call 1-2ounces of Protein shakes, sugar free pudding or jello, broth, yogurt (plain-no fruit), water, tea , coffee, ice pops, fruit pops, etc. You get the idea? So think about it--I did 9 hours of work, which resulted in the timer going off 27 times, causing me to make believe I was stopping work to actually eat. By about 2pm I said to myself, "I think i know what Pavlov's dogs were feeling"

The other difficult part so far is taking medications. All of my current meds have to be crushed before they can be taken, and I am still on what I consider a friggin boatload of medications. No matter how you do it- crushed and taken plain on a spoon, crushed and mixed with something you are ingesting every 20 minutes (for example, mixed with the fat free chocolate pudding), or mixed with your liquid protein shake or other liquid- IT STILL TASTES HORRIFIC. Nothing like a teaspoon full or more of crushed chalk to brighten up and start your morning. lol lol

Well, getting through it so far. My wife has been more than supportive--SHE HAS BEEN TOTALLY AWESOME. My two kids,too,have been fantastic. I do know that everyone supports me in this and i will keep pushing through.  See Ya soon.    

Everyone said this surgery was my last chance, but I wasn't so sure.  I guess I'll still have to wait and see about that.  Today is the second day post-surgery and I'm still in a little bit of pain, but more important, Im physically shot.  Speaking of shot, It looks like i have five bullet holes courtesy of Dr. Bessler (see photo).  There still is some pain, but its manageable.  Gotta tell you, the nursing care at Columbia Presbeterian Hospital was absolutely fantastic and they made this whole thing much more tolerable. The only drawback today is that I am totally exhausted, but thats probably due to the anesthesia and the post surgical pain meds still in my system.  Speak with ya soon.