Day 29 - LAST day of liquid diet

Praise the Lord!  I finally made it to the last day of my liquid diet.  I really wondered if this day would came, but it got here so fast.  It literally feels like just last week that I had my surgery.  My 2 week post-op appointment is scheduled for 2:30 pm today.  OH wait.....I should say "was" scheduled for today.  That's right, folks.  I got a call from the doctor's office this morning telling me he couldn't make it, yada yada and could I come in on Monday.  I said "yes, of course, BUT I need to know if I can go ahead and start the soft food or DO I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL I SEE HIM?".  I'm pretty sure I went into dog-pitch at some point and scared the poor girl on the other end, but I had a moment of pure terror thinking I'd have to wait 3-4 more days until solid food.  I think she heard the desperation in my voice because she put me on hold, talked to the nurse, and told me that if I'm tolerating the liquids ok, I can go ahead and start on the purees/mashed/soft foods.  Next to my marriage and the birth of my two sons, I don't think I've ever been so happy.

So within minutes I talked myself into my first solid food in over two weeks.  Tuna fish mixed with lots of RF mayo and pickle juice (to make it really soft and mushy) and some salt and pepper.  OMGITWASSOGOOD!!!  I mean, look at this.....have you ever seen anything so yummy in your life?

Well, it may not look yummy, but it was SO good.  I think my co-workers got sick of hearing me say (after every single bite) "OMG this is SO good!!".  I did take it very slowly and chewed every bite like 20-30 times.  I'm very nervous about doing any damage to my insides, so I'm taking it very easy.  But man, it was so nice to have actual food.  I'm so sick of the protein shakes.  I know I have to keep drinking them because they're a great source of protein, but ugh.  It'll be so nice to get my protein from other sources.  Thankfully, I love me some meat, so there won't be any problems there.

When I got home, I actually made dinner for the first time in awhile.  Well, 2 weeks to be precise.  One of our favorite dishes is egg/cheese/sausage breakfast burritos.  So I cooked up the eggs and pork sausage and broke them up pretty good.  I made the guys their burritos and then made myself a small bowl of eggs and sausage.  Again, I chewed very slowly and thoroughly and didn't have any problems with anything going down.  I had about 1/4 cup in total.  And even threw away some of it!!  That's a big step for me.

Like most children of the 70's/80's, I am a serial plate-cleaner.  Remember all those starving people in China?  Plus, my eyes have always been bigger than my stomach, so I usually would get way too much food, then feel compelled to eat it all.  That's a lethal combo.  I experienced it the other day when I was heating up my soup.  I poured it into the bowl and I thought "OH NO, it's not ENOUGH!!".  Because let me tell you, 8 ounces does NOT look like much.  However, once I got it down I was full.  Which is the whole point of this surgery, amiright?  It's true when they say it's psychological.  You really have to work on your brain to get past alot of your issues.  They don't just magically go away.  Unfortunately.

7/25/13 Data:

Weight: 267.2
Exercise:  10 minutes with the hubs - we need to start "training" for a Graffiti 5K we're run/walking in October.
Food Diary: