The view from eight weeks

Oct 17, 2012

I'm on a work trip so I'm just taking a few minutes to update my blog. I mostly trolled and lurked this week. No real reason, just tried to step up some of my other projects. I spent a full week in the shop working on my cars, got a trailer put together for my kayak, pulled the big boat out of the water for the winter, walked six days with my dog and got on the water for a couple hours on Sunday morning. Wow! This is what my life used to be like... Maybe I should take a few more weeks on light duty?

I have been starting each day with a protein shake and eating five or six times a day. I'm up to 3-4oz at a time. The denser the food, the less it takes to get me past the hunger and back into whatever I was doing. I have not made a really serious distinction between "meals" and "snacks?" I made a big pot of 2oz fowl balls (turkey meatballs) and was eating a couple a day. I stepped it up to one and a half at a time. Cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese sticks, turkey breast, eggs, turkey sausage, grits, kashi, some nuts and a little dried fruit make up the rest of what finds its way into my mouth and my new stomach. 

I do find myself pretty hungry pretty often. I don't know about "head hunger". I know that my stomach growls and gargles and when I'm hungry. If I can eat, great, if not, I try to drink some water or water alternative. Sometimes it makes me feel better for a minute, other times not. If anything, it's a little less convenient than my "prior life." I am getting used to it.

I weighed in at 246, down 54lbs from surgery. I'm down to the last week and a half of the beta blocker and hopefully, I will be able to stay off of BP meds entirely. My BP has bumped up just a bit again, but not anything crazy - 125/85? we'll watch it for another week or two and then make the call. Other than that, I only have Actigall for another 20 weeks and my Prevacid until someone tells me otherwise. I'm thinking by my anniversary in June that I won't be taking anything other than vitamins.

Other than being busy, I have had a pretty normal, if not boring, week. My new life is becoming routine except for my shrinking body. It's pretty terrific. My first goal is 56lbs - halfway to 112 - which is my total goal.. I have to believe that this time next week, I'll be there. My pants are feeling loose and my belt is out of holes... I hope that nine (weeks) is my lucky number.

  

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