Tazzlover8
4 days post op.
Sep 19, 2009
I am doing wonderful. I was released the next day. I have been doing great on my walking. While I felt gas pressure the 2 days after surgery.... I dont feel any now unless i have just "eaten". I felt a lot of lactic acid in my legs on Friday, but I have been doing a lot of walking and I think that might be part of the reason.I have not been adding much to my food list at all. I am doing the horrid protien shakes. I dont really like the taste of them no matter what I have done to jazz them up. So I drink an ounce.... and a take a small lick of yogurt or peanut butter. I cut the milk in half so it was easier to get down the whole shake. It is much faster for me to do four ounces of liquids than 8.
I worry that I may have already stretched my pouch though. While it takes me a while to drink the 4 ounces.... I AM getting in about 80 grams of protien in a day. I am also managing to get in half of the water too. I see so many people struggle to get in the protien, and I wonder, did I do something to my pouch already? I have only had liquids.
I have a little discomfort on the insicion that was made in my belly button, but otherwise, as long as I keep loose clothing on I am not really in any discomfort at all. I was out shopping with my mom yesterday. Only at Sam's but still. I am very happy with my progress back to being normal. In fact, I thought I was only going to be returning to work half time on Monday. I think I will be ready to go full time. I am feeling that close to normal.
The worst part for me is still the head hunger. I dont feel physically hungry. I dont even know if I could tell you what that feels like. But yesterday was a bad day for me emotionally. Dad cooked hot dogs on the grill and oh how I wanted one. They smelled so good. I knew I couldnt actually eat it. I knew that if I did try to eat it now it would probably hurt going down. But they smelled so good. Again, I cried thinking, what did I do to myself? Again, I think that is because I am so sick of only having the protien shakes and water. I think the lack of variety of flavor is really just getting old. And I wont allow myself to have anything other than the protien shakes and water(not including the lick of yogurt to make the taste go away) until I have hit my 80 gram mark for the day. So far, by the time I get there, it is almost time for bed.
The up side is the scale now reads 273.6 as of last night. So since I started the liquid diet for preop, I have lost a total of 16.4 lbs. I am curious to see how much it reads this morning. I admit I have become a scale junkie since I started the whole process. I know I shouldn't, but I just have to know. Sometimes weighing myself as much as three times a day.
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About Me
League City, TX
Location
34.5
BMI
Surgery
09/16/2009
Surgery Date
Jul 18, 2008
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