Easter

Apr 08, 2012

So I've got a few updates on how and what I am feeling.  I have started eating my soft foods a little earlier than recommended, only 2 days...don't get your knickers in a twist.  And besides, I started with fish.  Simply baked fish and I ate small bites with some tarter sauce.  It was nice to have some different textures and flavors in my mouth.  I have found that eating more protein is giving me more energy, I can FEEL the difference. 

Also, I am excited to announce that for the FIRST time since my surgery, I was able to get comfortable and sleep on my side!  Yea!!  I actually slept for a decent 9 hours last night, my first full night's sleep.  I didn't have to wake up for a bathroom trip, needing pain meds, nothing.  I slept and slept really well.  It was heavenly.

My Husband and I put on an Easter egg hunt for the kids this morning.  Typically, what I do is get a bunch of plastic eggs and fill them with candy and then put them all over the yard.  We have, what we call, a community basket.  All the candy from the eggs go into one basket that everyone can enjoy. Rather than have each child have their own basket of candy and/or toys.   I have had only 1 small chocolate egg from 3 bags of candy.  And it was WONDERFUL.   Simply rich and sweet, and one was enough. 

I believe today I did a WLS 101 naughty thing...I went to a buffet.  Well, I have to give Old County Buffet kudos for only charging me $1.99 to eat.  I got some baked fish and some popcorn shrimp.  I really wish they would have had something more along the line of shrimp scampi and not breaded shrimp.  Well, I got about 3-4 bites of the fish fillet and ate about 3-4 of the popcorn shrimp and had ENOUGH.  My bites were very small, I chewed and chewed and chewed and waited several minutes in between bites.  I thought I did pretty good, but I started to get really nauseated.  I think it was because of the shrimp.  Not sure if it's because they were breaded or because of the iodine factor.  Not sure, before surgery shrimp was not an issue.  So for a little while, I will ease off the shrimp and stick with the fish.  Good protein and it isn't very dense.  I sat and waited while my family ate their meal.  I even went up to the dessert area with my kiddos and helped them with ice cream sundaes!  But the one thing that I saw, that I REALLY wanted....was pecan pie.  I LOVE pecan pie.  But I did NOT eat any of it, I looked and walked away.  I just hope that my "will power" will continue as my journey progresses.

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