1st Day of 3-Week Pre-Surgery Diet

Aug 22, 2011

 I'm pretty excited about today because it means I'm one step closer to surgery . I was prepared for this, so I packed some stuff to take with me to work. I work 10 hour days, so i gotta pace myself. I made chocolate raspberry greek yogurt by mixing Torani chocolate and raspberry sugar free syrups with plain Oikos greek yogurt and Splenda. Probably didn't need Splenda, now that I think about it... I threw in a snack pack size low sugar applesauce and mixed a double serving of Nectar strawberry mousse protein shake with water. At this point, I find I'm prefering fruit flavored shakes mixed with water because I have a lifelong lactose sensitivity (causes gas and constipation and is no bueno). Most of the protein powders I've tried so far work OK with just water. I mean let's face it, they ain't all that great no matter what, right? It's gotta be all about the nutrition anyway.

Life Stuff: youngest child (we have 4) started community college yesterday. Her boyfreind dumped her the day before, so there's lots of emotion flying everywhere. Hubby and me feel like therapists because at any given time at least two of the offspring are stressing about something LOL. We have a strong family bond, though. We've been married for 26 years and all four children are our biological non-step children...pretty odd for our neck of the woods. Makes teamwork a lot easier, too.

Other Life Stuff: for four months now, I've been missing most of my lower back teeth due to an accident. I haven't been able to chew anything all that time. Only lost 10 pounds though phtttttttt. Today They will restore the left half and next week the right half. Just in time for my mush diet phase. I find that absolutely hilarious! Oh, and I told my mom that I'm having WLS. I said "I've made a decision about something and I hope I can count on your support." It worked 

Off to work now.

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