Not so easy way out!

Dec 12, 2012

To all that say it's an easy way out, I will literally kick their asses, it's been a hard journey, my body is still adjusting to food, learning to eliminate the bad but it seems like nothing settles it other than the Keifer drinks.  My stomach pains/ nausea come and go it's a weird sensation I've never felt,  food sits well at times and sometimes it's hell with the discomfort. Incision pains are gone but on over casted days I can still feel the big ones and spanks it is 24/7.

In another hand alcoholic beverages seem to settle my stomach better than food since it's not filling. =( I'm not trying to pick up  bad habits again, but it's hard since I have no escape from myself. My tolerance of alcohol is very low, 4 drinks tops every so often and I'm drunk.  Considering my tolerance on how it used to be is a hell of a lot more back then.  But I've become conscience of the caloric intake of drinks especially when you can't chug and drink a bottle of water afterwards with hangovers like I used to.  Sober life sucks but the benefit and the trade off has been life changing and saving.  Much of the aches and pains of knees feet and back have come to almost non existent which I have been ecstatic about but the attention I've been getting has been hard at times dealing with.  People who never even saw you as a person before all of a sudden are changing. (Still angered with the attention) I guess I should take it as a compliment but it's hard when all you ever saw from being overweight is always negative. I dunno, post op now is 4 months and change. Hoping that after 6 months things will change and as I know bodies heal different. Maybe getting on here more often for support and vent will help.

Sadly I'm still always hungry every 2 hours, planning is big in my life now, always I keep trying remember to pack snacks and panic when there is no water available.....

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Post op Rants

Aug 12, 2012

So I'm almost 2 weeks post-op, during the first week I had pretty bad nausea and incision pain. The liquid vicodin has been heaven sent especially for sleep since I'm not able to sleep on my back (I'm a stomach & side sleeper) I awake everyday around 4 am with colic's ( I figured they are hunger pains) since as soon as I drink water it goes away.  I've gotten good at picking stuff off the floor with my toes since bending over has been a challenge.  The abdominal binder has came in handy.  Now the problem has been the worse case of constipation, I know TMI but truthfully I didn't think I was going to have that problem.  Walking and increasing my intake of fluids helped some. MOM as the physician recommended didn't work for me so I started using 100mg of DSS daily along with fiber since constipation is not fun... ( I rather have diarrhea)  The liquid diet has been a challenge so I heard about a book that has saved my life! It's called Eating well After Weight loss Surgery.  Basically you can eat many things but just in a soup consistency for the first few weeks.  I figured it would be OK just as long as it does not upset my stomach.  I'm still hungry, but it doesn't take much of the soups to fill me up but I thought these hormones producing hunger were suppose to decrease I dunno..I'm still craving for every single type of meat, including stuff I never ate before such as seafood, go figure now that I can't eat it but I really can't wait to crunch it in my teeth.  Anyway.. I'm still recouping, some people have been freaks of nature where they're back to work in less than a week pain free.. and here I am not even close to ready to return since my job is physical.  I'm highly considering on asking my surgeon for another 2 week extension on my medical leave. My 2 week post op is on Tuesday and I'm down 10lbs since surgery.. wooohooo!! 
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