Tomorrow is the big day!
Sending you good thoughts! Before you know it you will be on the loser's bench!
Referral made Sept 2014 / RNY @ TWH Nov 17, 2015 - Dr T Jackson
Height: 5' 10" | Born: 1966
Lost on 2 weeks Opti - 14.4
Post Surgery - M1 - 16.4| M2 - 16 | M3 - 16.2 | M4 - 10 | M5 - 10 | M6 - 6.2 | M7 - 6.2 | M8 - 1.6 | M9 - 3.6 | M10 - 2.4
on 4/17/16 8:34 pm
I spent the night before mine getting organized for my return home. We had jello in 2 oz. cups in the fridge etc. The initial liquid stage seems to take forever. It will pass quickly.
LET YOURSELF HEAL. It will take twice as long for the inside to heal than the outside wounds on your stomach. Water is your new best friend, at least for awhile.
Sitting up and standing will help with the pain after surgery. They will try and get you walking soon after. You may go up in weight initially. If you take this time (your honeymoon) to retrain yourself to think of food as energy only. No emotion about food at all is what I aimed for. It's a business transaction.
There is no "before and after", there is only, "before and during".
It's worked for me so far. Good luck!
Best wishes! Hide your scale for 2 weeks- don't expect it all to come off overnight.
HW 305 SW 278 Surgery weight 225 GW 160 LW: 118.8
RNY 12/15/2015,
GB removal 09/2016,
Twisted bowel/hernia repair 08/2017
M1 Dec 2015-13.0, M2-7.0, M3-14.5, M4-9.4, M5-7.1, M6 9.8, M7-7.6 ,M8- 7.6, M-9 5.5, M10-6.4, M11- 2.2, M12 Dec 2016- 5.8
Chelsey,
Thoughts and prayers -- I was where you are 16 years ago almost to the day, and I'm here to tell you that it will be okay.
Gary's right -- take the time you need to heal, and don't rush from one stage to the next. I honestly never thought there'd be a time in my life when I'd be craving Cream of Wheat, particularly the watered-down, runny, disgusting kind -- let alone want to eat it. But I was. But I did. And I lived.
Best wishes in the days ahead -- welcome to the other side.
