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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League City, TX
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34.5
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RNY
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09/16/2009
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Jul 18, 2008
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