Hunter is making spaghetti for dinner! So I'll be eating hamburger meat in no-sugar-added pasta sauce. Can't wait!
7/29/13 Data:
Weight: 263.6
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary:
Monday, July 29, 2013
Day 33 - 4th Day of purees/soft foods
Another Monday, another day at work. It's getting better and better on the pain management. I went another day today with no pain meds, so yay for me! I went to see my doctor today for my (rescheduled) 2 week check-up. I've officially lost 16 pounds since the day before surgery, according to their records. My BMI has dropped from 42 to less than 38, which I think is awesome! I'm making progress, so that makes me happy.
Hunter is making spaghetti for dinner! So I'll be eating hamburger meat in no-sugar-added pasta sauce. Can't wait!
7/29/13 Data:
Weight: 263.6
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary:
Hunter is making spaghetti for dinner! So I'll be eating hamburger meat in no-sugar-added pasta sauce. Can't wait!
7/29/13 Data:
Weight: 263.6
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary:
Day 32 - 3rd day of purees/soft foods
Sunday came awfully quick. We rolled ourselves out of bed around 10:00 and got ready for breakfast/lunch. I intended to get up early and eat breakfast but that didn't happen. We headed to our favorite Sunday morning restaurant that serves the BEST breakfast taco/burritos in town. And they're super cheap, which is the best part. So we ordered some barbacoa for me and then I stole some of Zac's refried beans. I ate just a small amount and was SO full! I got a little queasy and I think it might have been from the fatty meat. It was good though, but I don't think I'll do it again anytime soon.
MILESTONE: I haven't taken my pain meds for TWO days! I've really been wanting to cut back so I'm glad I'm doing ok without it. I'm still on the hunt for liquid Tylenol....no luck yet. :-(
7/28/2013 Data:
Weight: 265.6
Exercise: 10 minute walk with Dan and Hunter
Food Diary:
MILESTONE: I haven't taken my pain meds for TWO days! I've really been wanting to cut back so I'm glad I'm doing ok without it. I'm still on the hunt for liquid Tylenol....no luck yet. :-(
7/28/2013 Data:
Weight: 265.6
Exercise: 10 minute walk with Dan and Hunter
Food Diary:
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Day 31 - 2nd day of purees
Saturday was pretty uneventful. I got up pretty early at 7:00, ate breakfast, then went back to bed at 9:30 for a nap. Got up in time for lunch. Sensing a pattern here? :-) I did get enough energy to clean up the kitchen because the mess was driving me crazy. Then I may or may not have taken another nap......
7/28/13 Data:
Weight: 265.2 (25 pounds!!)
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary:
7/28/13 Data:
Weight: 265.2 (25 pounds!!)
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary:
Day 30 - First official day of purees/mashed
Boy was I excited about Friday. Although it was a little anti-climactic since I actually started eating real food the day before. However, I'd been looking forward to Friday for a week. My plan was to meet my friend Jolene at Cheddar's for a cup of their baked potato soup. In the past, I remember it being really thick and creamy. But this time it was thinner, almost brothy. And it just didn't do it for me. So then, since I didn't have enough protein at that meal, I felt like I was hungry the rest of the day. I've realized that I need at least 20 grams of protein at each meal. It helps fill me up and I truly believe it helps me lose weight.
When I got home, I ate/drank dinner (a protein shake) then laid down at 7:30 for a quick nap. When I woke up 3 hours later, I realized how incredibly tired I was!
7/27/13 Data:
Weight: 266.2
Exercise: Slept right through my walk!
Food Diary:
When I got home, I ate/drank dinner (a protein shake) then laid down at 7:30 for a quick nap. When I woke up 3 hours later, I realized how incredibly tired I was!
7/27/13 Data:
Weight: 266.2
Exercise: Slept right through my walk!
Food Diary:
Thursday, July 25, 2013
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:
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:
Day 28 (13th day of liquid diet)
I had an interesting conversation with a co-worker yesterday, who also happens to be a good friend. Now this friend is tiny. And I mean tiny, like 5 foot nothing and 125 soaking wet. So my 5'10" self looks like an amazon next to her. Especially when I was pushing 300 pounds. So anyhoo. She asked how much weight I'd lost and I told her almost 23 pounds. She said "does that scare you?" And I said "what do you mean?" And she said "that you're losing so fast?". So I was thinking (1) does she not know the point of this surgery and (2) can a fat person EVER lose weight too fast? Then she says "yeah, I really need to lose about 8 pounds". Now, I have lots of slim friends that say this to me. And I get it. I do. But when you need to lose 100+ pounds, it's REAL hard to have a lot of sympathy for 8 pounds. And I think THEY think it's the same thing. But it ain't. Not...even...close, amiright?
7/24/13 Data:
Weight: 267.4
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary: **Note** I combined all three shakes into one entry for my convenience.
7/24/13 Data:
Weight: 267.4
Exercise: 10 minute walk
Food Diary: **Note** I combined all three shakes into one entry for my convenience.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Day 27 (12th day of liquid diet)
OMGTWOMORE DAYS!!!! I cannot wait to have real food in my mouth. Even if it is pureed. I'm already salivating just thinking about the egg salad, tuna salad, pudding, peanut butter, creamy soup, etc. Although I'm a little nervous about getting it down, I can't wait to try.
I made an adjustment on my protein shakes. I had gotten some protein mix from Complete Nutrition called Annex. The only flavor I thought I could stand was Chocolate Malt. Turns out, it was NOT good. And I bought a HUGE tub of it. So I was gonna gulp that crap down until it was gone. But my friend Tricia reminded me of the peanut butter powder (PB2 - amazing!), so I started adding that in. It made it taste SO much better. So I realized that with the protein powder (22g), Mootopia milk (12g) and PB2 (5g), I was getting 36g of protein in each drink. And I remembered the nutritionist saying your body could only absorb 20g of protein at one time. So I was wasting 16g each time!! I decided to only do 1/2 scoop of powder, 1 tbsp of PB2 and 1 cup of Mootopia, bringing it to 25.5g each drink. It also cut back on calories a bit, so that helped. I also cut out the cream of mushroom soup, sadly, because it had way too many carbs. I'm going to miss it. Which is sad, right? I also realized how many carbs are in the NSA popsicles. But that's on my eating plan, so I assume it's ok right now. I was reading Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies last night and it said I should keep my carbs to 20-30 net grams per day. But surely they mean after I start eating real food. That's what I'm going with anyway.
7/23/13 Data:
Weight: 267.8
Exercise: Walk with the boys. Probably 10 minutes.
Food Diary:
I made an adjustment on my protein shakes. I had gotten some protein mix from Complete Nutrition called Annex. The only flavor I thought I could stand was Chocolate Malt. Turns out, it was NOT good. And I bought a HUGE tub of it. So I was gonna gulp that crap down until it was gone. But my friend Tricia reminded me of the peanut butter powder (PB2 - amazing!), so I started adding that in. It made it taste SO much better. So I realized that with the protein powder (22g), Mootopia milk (12g) and PB2 (5g), I was getting 36g of protein in each drink. And I remembered the nutritionist saying your body could only absorb 20g of protein at one time. So I was wasting 16g each time!! I decided to only do 1/2 scoop of powder, 1 tbsp of PB2 and 1 cup of Mootopia, bringing it to 25.5g each drink. It also cut back on calories a bit, so that helped. I also cut out the cream of mushroom soup, sadly, because it had way too many carbs. I'm going to miss it. Which is sad, right? I also realized how many carbs are in the NSA popsicles. But that's on my eating plan, so I assume it's ok right now. I was reading Weight Loss Surgery for Dummies last night and it said I should keep my carbs to 20-30 net grams per day. But surely they mean after I start eating real food. That's what I'm going with anyway.
7/23/13 Data:
Weight: 267.8
Exercise: Walk with the boys. Probably 10 minutes.
Food Diary:
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