Thursday, January 22, 2009
January 21, 2009
"He couldn't have called the feeling pity; not loss either, and not nostalgia; it was sorrow, really, a sorrow of familiarity."
Monday, January 19, 2009
For Becky
I am watching Beth Ann try on maternity clothes. We joke that she is getting bigger and I am getting smaller. So far things have not changed much for me. I am still eating unrestricted (no fluid in the band to make me eat less), but I am still not eating as much as I did before. I have a new routine down now. For breakfast I have a chocolate (protein) milkshake. Around 10 or so I have a mid morning snack of cottage cheese with slivered almonds. Then around noon I have a hard-boiled egg and for an afternoon snack I have strawberry-kiwi protein drink mixed with pink lemonade Crystal Lite. It gets me through the day and then for dinner I eat whatever Beth Ann made for dinner. Tonight Beth Ann made beef and cheese enchiladas, with homemade salsa and fresh guacamole (my contribution).
I spent my day off cleaning the bathroom, top to bottom, and watching the movie "Atonement." I have about 30 minutes left and I don't really get it. I was originally wanting to try to have an appointment today to get my first "fill", since it's now been 4 weeks since my surgery. The soonest appointment I could have was 1/31. So the next 2 weeks I will be getting hungrier and hungrier. Then as soon as I get restriction on my band, it will all change and be like it was the first few days after surgery. It's when the weight will really start to come off. I'll try and keep you updated, but fair warning: there may not be another post until then... :)
I spent my day off cleaning the bathroom, top to bottom, and watching the movie "Atonement." I have about 30 minutes left and I don't really get it. I was originally wanting to try to have an appointment today to get my first "fill", since it's now been 4 weeks since my surgery. The soonest appointment I could have was 1/31. So the next 2 weeks I will be getting hungrier and hungrier. Then as soon as I get restriction on my band, it will all change and be like it was the first few days after surgery. It's when the weight will really start to come off. I'll try and keep you updated, but fair warning: there may not be another post until then... :)
Monday, January 5, 2009
Updates
Well it sure is hard to sit down and write when I'm not home all day recovering. I am healing quite well and am still adjusting to life with a lap band. The swelling has gone down considerably around my stomach so now there is barely any restriction. The band itself has not been inflated at all - I go in on 1/31 to get it adjusted, so my hunger/fullness changes throughout the day.
In the morning, because I have been laying down all night, I have to drink warm liquids to start the day, just to loosen things up. It gets a little better at lunch - I can usually eat with no problems. By dinner I can eat my whole serving (though it is still a much smaller serving than normal). I think by the time I am due for my adjustment at the end of the month it will be as if no band is there at all. It's kind of a process--to get to the perfect point of how filled the band is.
On Sunday morning I made some hashbrowns for breakfast, along with eggs. I still forget sometimes that I can't eat like I used to, so I could only have a few bites of each. But my last bite of hashbrowns was a doozy. I forgot to chew enough (15 times each bite) and all of the sudden I felt like I needed to burp, but couldn't. I knew what this was- I had heard about it. When you don't chew enough or when the food can't get through the band, it comes back up. It's not really throwing up - there was no heaving or wretching involved. I just sort of coughed it back up. Lesson learned.
I am going to try to go to the support group meeting tomorrow night. It's at 6:00pm downtown so getting there might be an issue, but I want to try. I would be interested to know how others are doing.
On the food front things are getting better. I can now have chicken and fish that's not from a can. So tonight we made a chicken and vegetable casserole. Yesterday I had avocado soup with crab and the day before I had baked fish with vegetables. So I am glad to finally be off of mushy foods. I am still struggling to get all of my protein in each day, although today I discovered that a hardboiled egg has 17 grams of protein. I need to get 60 in a day, so I am going to have Beth Ann make some for me. I don't know why but I can't ever make hardboiled eggs.
In the morning, because I have been laying down all night, I have to drink warm liquids to start the day, just to loosen things up. It gets a little better at lunch - I can usually eat with no problems. By dinner I can eat my whole serving (though it is still a much smaller serving than normal). I think by the time I am due for my adjustment at the end of the month it will be as if no band is there at all. It's kind of a process--to get to the perfect point of how filled the band is.
On Sunday morning I made some hashbrowns for breakfast, along with eggs. I still forget sometimes that I can't eat like I used to, so I could only have a few bites of each. But my last bite of hashbrowns was a doozy. I forgot to chew enough (15 times each bite) and all of the sudden I felt like I needed to burp, but couldn't. I knew what this was- I had heard about it. When you don't chew enough or when the food can't get through the band, it comes back up. It's not really throwing up - there was no heaving or wretching involved. I just sort of coughed it back up. Lesson learned.
I am going to try to go to the support group meeting tomorrow night. It's at 6:00pm downtown so getting there might be an issue, but I want to try. I would be interested to know how others are doing.
On the food front things are getting better. I can now have chicken and fish that's not from a can. So tonight we made a chicken and vegetable casserole. Yesterday I had avocado soup with crab and the day before I had baked fish with vegetables. So I am glad to finally be off of mushy foods. I am still struggling to get all of my protein in each day, although today I discovered that a hardboiled egg has 17 grams of protein. I need to get 60 in a day, so I am going to have Beth Ann make some for me. I don't know why but I can't ever make hardboiled eggs.
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