Happy New Year everybody! :). I can see now that these blog post that once were days apart are probably going to be weeks apart due to my YouTube being up and running.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYkL_ZZWuw7kEq4N-IWQ4zw?view_as=subscriber
Sorry but sometimes speaking is just easier than writing but I will do my best of keeping up both! So I am almost 3 weeks out. Getting into the fluids is getting easier, especially when I add protein powder to food and I don't have to worry about drinking the protein shakes. Everything is slow for now, eating, drinking, walking....all slow :). It is the process though so slow we shall go! I started a cup of coffee around 8:45 and finally finished it at 10:15. Then I wait 30 minutes to eat. So at 10:45 I made an egg with cheese and am slowly working on eating it. I am not hungry....that kind of goes away with surgery so its about making yourself eat for nutritional value. It's hard to keep eating when you don't feel like it (even after just 2 bites). Kinda crazy that before, it was hard to STOP and now its hard to GO! I prefer this though and I know in time it will balance out. Refried beans with the white cheese dip from Mexican restaurants has been my favorite. I can only eat 2oz at a time but with those I feel like I WANT to go for days, but I can't :) They are good and they go down easy. When I ordered the plate of beans, the waiter looked at me crazy and I had to repeat myself. When I got them and finished, it didn't look like I had ate anything really and then I asked for a to go box so who knows what was going through his head haha.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYkL_ZZWuw7kEq4N-IWQ4zw?view_as=subscriber
Sorry but sometimes speaking is just easier than writing but I will do my best of keeping up both! So I am almost 3 weeks out. Getting into the fluids is getting easier, especially when I add protein powder to food and I don't have to worry about drinking the protein shakes. Everything is slow for now, eating, drinking, walking....all slow :). It is the process though so slow we shall go! I started a cup of coffee around 8:45 and finally finished it at 10:15. Then I wait 30 minutes to eat. So at 10:45 I made an egg with cheese and am slowly working on eating it. I am not hungry....that kind of goes away with surgery so its about making yourself eat for nutritional value. It's hard to keep eating when you don't feel like it (even after just 2 bites). Kinda crazy that before, it was hard to STOP and now its hard to GO! I prefer this though and I know in time it will balance out. Refried beans with the white cheese dip from Mexican restaurants has been my favorite. I can only eat 2oz at a time but with those I feel like I WANT to go for days, but I can't :) They are good and they go down easy. When I ordered the plate of beans, the waiter looked at me crazy and I had to repeat myself. When I got them and finished, it didn't look like I had ate anything really and then I asked for a to go box so who knows what was going through his head haha.
It is so wild that before surgery, I probably would have ate this entire plate using chips, well I wouldn't have ordered this, but you get it. I watched Blair and Josh eat chips and salsa and their entire plates and it was kinda like UGH how do they do that lol. Its been 17 days and I act like I didn't eat plate fulls :)
After surgery, a common thing with weight loss patients is transfer addiction. I don't think much of it because a lot of time, unfortunately, it is alcohol, and I don't drink often and I don't have the urge to drink. The other part of the time it is usually shopping, which I also don't like to do. Online shopping is another story but really its always been about just putting stuff in the cart then closing out so I figured I would be ok with that. I think I got lucky and something that excites me at this point is making food for others and watching them enjoy it. I have always liked to make the people I love, happy, and usually that was by laughter, and I will still strive to do that, but now it is this. I made these frozen meals for my family and I love to serve them, and watch them eat it, and get feed back. Yesterday I went to watch the Chief's game at my In-laws and I made cookies, and 7 layer dip, and meatballs, and brought chips and crackers, and I knew I wasn't really going to eat any of it but seeing them happy with something I could produce, was exciting. Weird? I don't know and I don't care. If my new addiction is serving others and trying to make them happy, I will take it. I really wanted Club crackers last night, they are delicious, but number 1 they are not healthy, and number 2 I am not ready for that kind of food so of course I didn't eat any. I wasn't hungry but the craving was there (head hunger). Here is what I attempted to eat:
I ate half of the string cheese and poked around on the dip (I could have everything in it but I didn't love it without chips)
I only eat 3 meals and the rest of the day is fluids. So 6oz total if I can eat the whole 2oz I serve myself and then water, Powerade, propel, etc and Premier protein. If I feel like I need a snack I have a sugar free mint and then I am satisfied. I have lost 13 pounds in 2 weeks YAY!!!!!. I weigh in on Thursdays since that was my surgery day. I will measure once a month and the quickest way to see all those updates is YOUTUBE, sorry :). I will eventually update here too. The healing is going so well, I have no restrictions any longer, I will go back to work this coming week (1.16.19) and I will be killing this weight loss, just watch :).
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