I just want to post this on my profile!

Aug 07, 2009

I wrote this in my sleeve group and decided to post it on my profile just in case someone else would like to read it.

Ok,  I know that I have been complaining and not posting.  It's been hard learning my new friend sleeve.  But I think I got these new tastes,and new way to cook my food thing down packed.
I can not do what everybody else does.  I can not follow all recipes.
My sleeve is very funny acting.  The smell of Mrs. Dash makes me sick and I was cooking with it. Duhhhhhh!  To why I could not eat.
Miracle whip and mayonnaise makes me really sick.  I can not season my food.  Get a pan, spray some Pam and cook it!  It's just plain simple! 

I can not eat the way I use to.  With all the seasonings, and condiments.
I like pinto beans but three spoonfuls and I'm done.  A piece of fish is just that, "a piece".
Water is my friend.  Just not for a long time after I eat.  If I can't do 2oz's of something I don't do it.
Splenda makes me feel sick so I leave it and all other sweeteners alone.
I mixed my vanilla carnation instant breakfast with a spoonful of decaf coffee no milk and was in heaven.  I even added ground flax seeds to my coffee and enjoyed it.

Things that were bland to me before are good now.  I may only eat a small amount, but I'm eating. 
My blood work came back excellent with my iron a little low.  But that was it.  I'm tired because I had surgery!  Another duhhhhhhhh!
Some of us take a while to get used to change.   This VSG took me out of my comfort zone for-real!  I studied, I read, I asked, I researched, and still nothing can really get you ready for the way your going to feel.  For the changing of your life!  You will learn about not eating much, chew your food slow, and are you really ready for this?  But there is no training for the big change you feel when your best friend food is not your friend anymore.  When you hate to eat because you don't want to get sick, or get the foams, throw up, or just want that full feeling to go away.
I learned that my sleeve is not a get thin quick scheme.  It's going to be a journey that I'm going to have to work hard at.  Yet I do believe that I am starting to like my friend sleeve.  It may seem strange but my friend sleeve is good to me and good for me.  We just need to get to know each other better.

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