Yesterday was 7 weeks since surgery!

I can't believe it has been 7 weeks, well in a way I can and in a way I can't.
I have been doing really good and not gotten sick, well I have not been eating either which is NOT good and I don't recommend but it is scary.

Yesterday I made a great bean salad with black beans and garbanzos, garlic, lime, evoo, salt and salsa. Tasted great but lots of carbs. I am really not in the meat mood. I have always had real issues with meat and now it is worse.

I have been trying to find some good "snacks" that are high in protein and low in carbs to fill the gaps in my day.

I have found a Smoothie King nearby and found I can have a "treat" when Julio and Leanza get ice cream at the near by Bruesters. The protein shake I get at SK has my whole days requirements of protein! In my entertainment book I even found a coupon for buy one get one free so I have one for today!

Julio took some photos of me the other day. I have some from the night before my surgery and now ones from my 45lb loss but I am still not ready to post them yet! :)

Thanks again everyone for reading my blogg and being so supportive, it really helps and means a lot to me!
Love you all!

Got Weighed today!

Well, I sure had a surprise today.

I went to my PCP to recheck my blood pressure medicine and I have lost a total of 45lbs!!!!!!!!!!!

And, she also cut my meds down from 100mg a day to 50! Hopefully next month I won't need it at all!

Doing pretty good the past two days!

Thank goodness, I have been so weak since I have not been able to eat!

Yesterday it was Williams birthday, I was really feeling terrible but I was going no matter what. I stopped at Walmart and got some nuts to munch on.

While I was there I had some mixed nuts some topping off of pizza it was cheese and mushrooms, I did really well, no upsets. So that stayed in and today I had nuts for breakfast and some pizza topping again for dinner tomorrow I might have some energy to do some long overdue grocery shopping! BIG ADVENTURE lol

Month Anniversary!

Ok, so I know today is Wednesday but I have to say that I have not been much up to writing. I am having a really hard time adjusting to my new insides or should I say my new insides are having a hard time getting use to eating.

I have been sick many many times which then makes it so I can not do ANYTHING for that day and then eat nothing the next. I have NO energy from this so inturn I can not do the exercising I should be doing. Once again, a vicious circle. SIGH

This trial and error period which can extend for a very long time is very trying. What does not work now, may work later but lets face it after being so sick you are curled up in the fetal position for hours or stuck on the toilet with the trash can up to your face, who wants to go through that again???

Food has become such a drag, I hate to say it but it has. SIGH

So, I am mending from my infections and now recouping from my last episode. One month down, a lifetime to go.....

I won't give up hope that it is going to get better. I was told to make that judgement at the 6 month mark, but even if at that time I am not happy, what can I do about it? LOL NOTHING!!!!

Three weeks!

Ok, so I have not posted in awhile.

I have not been feeling that great. Lots of physical but also mental things that have me down.

Today for instance I had to take an unexpected trip to the dr. I have an incision that is infected, I have been nursing it for a few days and it isn't getting much better. So better safe than sorry I went.

He looked at it put a band aid on it and said I was fine! He isn't right around the corner so I was sorry to have inconvenienced Julio to drive me there for nothing but once again better safe than sorry I guess.

Lazy day

So yesterday I didn't get to write because we were out and about with Sam and William and went to the Urbana Carnival, we had fun.

I ALMOST lasted the whole trip. I had a strange pain in my side by one of my incisions and had to go sit down, but not long afterwards everyone else came too.

I put myself on a liquid day yesterday trying to recover from the day before when I was in so much pain from eating too much!

Today I ate dinner and just drank the first part of the day. I didn't over do it, YEAH!
I actually just counted out tablespoons. I still felt what I thought was a bit hungry but as they say, you can always have more but once you have eaten too much, you can't go back!

Well, I didn't eat more, I had some SF popscicles instead.

Just got done watching WALL E , oh yeah, now to put munchkin to bed!

HUGE MISTAKE!

Ok, so yesterday, Friday night I didn't write, why you may ask?

Well I was in AGONY! I overate at dinner.

Now mind you in the GB world that means instead of a 1/4 of a C of food I may have gone over to maybe 1/2C . OOOOUUUUUCCCCHHHHHHH! I am still learning how to tell when I am "satisfied" and not let it get to the FULL part because if it gets there, even hours later I feel full to the gills literally. It felt as if the food was all the way up to the back of my throat, gross yes but that is the only way I can explain it.

So today, I am going to do liquids for most of today as I am still sore this am and I feel "FULL" still. So, hopefully by tomorrow I can, try it again. You know, this new thing called eating LOL!