Recent Posts

so, here i am . . . i've lost quite a bit . . . highest weight 270, surgery weight was 243 and now . . . i woke up this morning and i am 234! i cannot even believe it and my surgery wasn't a week ago (tomorrow).  i am so excited at the prospect of being in the 220's within a week - who knows, i could fall into one big fat plateau and not make it there for weeks, but i'm still thinking i'll be there. from the day i got home i have been going to the gym and walking for a 1/2 hour, - i'm doing leg and arm exercise without weight, and i plan on continuing this for a long time. i have never been so hopeful in my whole life. i'm about to leave for the gym right now, and thought i should do this before i left.

tonight is my support group, and i can't wait to see everyone. i'm wondering how long it will be before i can do my p90x videos. i would like to start them before my return to work knowing that i will need lot's of energy to go back to work - i am an occupational therapist and often have to lift bariatric patients to transfer them, besides transferring other patients as well.

anyway, is everyone this happy? or is it just me?

I hope you are feeling better now, Mindy!  Sending healing prayers your way xx

so the one thing i haven't heard discussed here, is the worst sore throat i've ever had after surgery. apparently when they put the tube down your throat causes some "discomfort" according to the nurse. i think it's a little more than discomfort! i can't seem to cough up and i can't seem to get the phlegm out from the back of my throat. the little thing hanging in the back of our throat's (the uvula) is the size of a golf ball. it's very uncomfortable.

other than that, i'm very crabby (i'm pretty sure because of my throat). my stomach is fairly painful - not bad, the pain killers are effective.

all i can say is i'm glad the surgery is over and soon to be on the loser's bench!

mindy

my main problem now with the liquid diet is that i have been consuming far too much salt and its sucking all the potassium and everything out of me. so i'm trying to slow down on the soup mixing... because that's where all the salt is coming from... :(

Keep us posted, Dixie!