Thanksgiving

I made it through the biggest eating holiday that was ever invented!!! It was much easier than I ever imagined. I ate nice and slow and mostly just had turkey. It was easy to concentrate on eating my 3 oz slowly as everyone else was busy eating too, I didn't feel rushed and spaced out my bites, 2 of the 4 keys to not getting sick! Unfortunately the whole weekend wasn't will out incident. I did get sick the next day. I went to moms to have leftovers and was a bit to eager. I ate to fast and got myself sick. I pretty much ate to fast and paid the heavy price!

I was very surprised that I wasn't tempted to eat a bunch of junk. I credit alot of that to my taste buds being a little off still. Things don't taste the same anymore. I was certain that the food I had made for the holiday was horrible and nobody would eat it but on the contrary everyone said it was the best they had tasted! If it was up to me I would have thrown it all away because when I tasted it, it was gross!

All and all it was a good holiday and now I know Christmas will be a breeze!

Solid FOOD!!!

I have been graduated to solid food!!! It is so nice to be able to eat real food again! I had chicken the other day and it was so good! I could only have 3 little pieces before I was full but those 3 pieces took me about 15 min to eat. I took the rest of the chicken home and have been eating on it for 3 days now. I can't believe how much money I am saving!

I tried to take my dog for a walk the other day but it did not go well, he was pulling to much. So I am walking alot just have to leave the doggie at home for now. I am starting a more in depth work out next week, so I will let you know how that goes! I am gonna start slow with some swimming (I love swimming).

So far I have lost 25.5 inches! I m so glad I am loosing slow, it is helping my skin keep up :-) So far no saggy skin!!!! WOOHOO!!!

I am looking forward to next week and Thanksgiving! I have already planned out my dinner and am looking forward to some yummy turkey!

I want you all to keep my friend Kim in your thoughts and prayers, she is having her WLS the Monday after Thanksgiving. Pretty soon she will be apart of our LOOSER'S club, YAY!!! So here's to Kim can't wait for you to join us, hope your excited! I'm excited for you.

One Month Anniversary!!!!

I can not believe it has been one month today since I was in the hospital!!! It feels like it was forever ago. Everything is going well I had a little bit of solid food today and it went down well! I am really looking forward graduating to Phase 3 on November 23rd! Phase 2 seems like it is lasting so long but four weeks down 2 to go :-)

Clumping

For those of you who do not know what "Clumping" is it is basicly when you eat something that is either to dry, not the right food or you eat it too fast, and your tummy rejects it by making you vomit!

This happened to me for the first time last night! It was horrible! But I felt much better after I purged the food from my body. I think my problem was I ate too fast. So after that I was back to liquids only for the rest of the day to let my tummy have a rest.

Clumping was too bad but it is not something I wan to happen again, I HATE throwing up!!!!

But today is a new day and I paying better attention when I eat so I can prevent having clumping happen again!

It's been awhile

Sorry it has been so long since I have written! Life has been crazy, I had family come visit and right before that I had to have my house fumigated (yuck!). But I am back now! I had my first post-op apoinment last week and it went well! I was told I could start going some light exercise, I was excited about that. Also I am only a couple weeks away from getting to start eat non-mushed food again!!!!

My incision sites are all healed up and now I am just treating them with some special cream to help them not scar.

As of today I have lost 40 pounds!!!!!!!!

Loosing like crazy

I am down 34 pounds since the start of my journey!!!! I can not believe it. I am feeling ok but am having some issues with food. Since I started Phase 2 last Monday which is the Pureed Food Phase, there have been ups and downs with this so far. I am having some pain and nausea when I am eating. This does not happen all the time so I know it is either me eating too fast or my food is too dry. It is a horrible feeling when this happens. I have to stand up and pace around the room for awhile and I always pray I do not vomit!!! If I where to throw up I would have to go back to all liquids for a day so my stomach can recover. So I try to avoid that at all costs!!!!

I am still in shock that it has been three weeks since I have had a soda! I don't think I have gone this long with out one since I started drinking them when I was child! I have never been able to quite them but now I am proudly 3 weeks cold turkey into my no soda life. I will never be able to have soda's again, the carbonation's is very bad for the tummy and I hear it is very painful. I try to stay away from things that I have been warned are painful :-)

So as of starting week 3 I am doing great and only minor aches and pains nothing I can't handle.

It is also exciting that I am down 5 points on the BMI scale!!!!!!