nikki0576
were I am at today
Sep 25, 2007
3 weeks post op
Sep 14, 2007
I am feeling pretty good, I am having a hard time with the pureed foods, nothing taste good anymore. A lot of the time Ihave to force myself to eat because nothing sounds good and when I fo go to eat the food it doesn't taste normal.
I am down from my starting weight of 292 to 248, so i am pretty excited about that, although I haven't lost anything this week I have remained right at the 248 mark but I guess my body is going through that slow down period and I am losing inches, I hope. I have always been afraid in the past to have this surgery done because I have always been afraid that I would fail beacuse I have failed at so many other diet attempts so when you see the scale stop moving so early after surgery it is really scary but I am staying positive and listening to everyone else on the board.
Since i have been home from the hospital I ahve been walking on my treadmill everyday I came home on Saturday and was on the treadmill on Monday of course I only did 10 minutes that first day but I am so totally motivated to continue my good health with exercise. Since then I have been walking about 40-55 minutes a day on the treadmill at least 4 days a week. I know in the end it will be well worth all my hard work.
I don't think I am getting in all my protein but I am trying I have been making my protein shake with skim milk and whey protein powder in the morning and eating chicken and tuna salad for lunch (even though they don't taste very good) I am puching them down.
feeling good
Sep 06, 2007
It has been 2 weeks since my surgery, I had a rough time in the beginning. I had the surgery on Wednesday and when they went to give me fluids on Thursday I couldn't keep anything down, i kept throwing up this foam. My upper GI showed that the hole where the food goes down was extremely swollen, so Doctor came in and gave me a shot of an inflammatory drug and that didn't work so Friday was worse, so he gave me another shot of something else and I woke up Saturday feeling like myself again, YEAH!
So far So good, I lost 20lbs my first 4 days home from the hospital, Yeah. I feel pretty good I have a lot of mind hunger, I am not hungry but my mind tells me that everything looks good or sounds good. I am on full liquids for one more week, then move on to pureed foods which I am pretty excited about when you have been on liquids for 4 weeks it becomes kind of a drag.
Today
Jul 22, 2007
I am not sure what else to do, I don't want my surgery canceled because I couldn't lose it all but I am really trying, I have been reading other people on this board say that they have been on an LD for 10 days before the surgery so maybe I will start an LD tomorrow and do that until my surgery date to see if that does anything. I guess I better run I am at work.
But I get off in 45 minutes WOOHOO!
07/31/2007:
I am so bummed my surgery has been rescheduled and I don't even have a date yet. My surgeon branched off into his own practice so he has to be approved and re-do all of his credentials for all of the different insurance companies and he does not have his for Health Partners and of course no one told me this until they called yesterday to say they would have to reschedule me. This sucks I am so sad, here I work so hard to get approved and get my date and then 2 days before it gets canceled because of something my surgeon did not me. UGHH! So I have to wait until next week to get a date, I go in on Wednesday for a weight check and if he has his clearance then he will reschecule my date. Man oh man this sucks.....
