Monday, July 16, 2012

My first post op weigh in

Starting weight: 261 lbs

Surgery day: 234.4 lbs

Todays weight: 230.1 lbs

-4.3 lb loss since surgery
-30.9 lb loss overall

I'm over the moon right now! I know these losses won't last but I am enjoying em' while I can get em'!

I'm doing good. Gas pains are getting fewer and farther between but when they come I just want to throw a temper tantrum like my 4 year old! I'm starting to get stiff from not being able to sleep like I want to. It's going to feel like heaven when I can start sleeping on my damn side again!

I started purees today!! Woo hoo! My cream of wheat this morning was delightful. I'm sure my tomato soup at lunch is going to be devine. I can't even tell you how excited I will be to have pudding! It's amazing how these things would have been last on my list and never would I get EXCITED over them. But after having protein shakes and gatorade for like 5 days it's like crab legs! (well, not quite...but you smell what I'm steppin' in)

It still feels weird when I say "My band" to someone... Or "I have the lap-band" still doesn't seem like it really happened! It's kind of like when I had my first daughter and I called down to the nursery and said "I'm Mackenzie's mom" It felt so weird... I was like I'm a frikken mom?

Well, I better get back to my difficult day of napping, walking, and eating small amounts of food!

TOODLES!

17 comments:

  1. congrats on the loss! have a very nappy day enjoy that soup lady!

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  2. I was so lucky and didn't get those awful gas pains...I hope yours go away for good super soon! Congrats on your loss!!

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  3. Glad to hear your doing well. Advancing your diet is a wonderful thing. Are you using a heating pad? That helped me alot. Also extra pillows helped with sleeping on my side.

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  4. You are doing great! I was very lucky too and did not get the gas pains.

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  5. I slept on my side the first night of surgery. If you have a body pillow use that otherwise I used four pillows around me and took a super squisshy one and put it up against my incisions and then put another one in between my legs and oh my gosh it was soooo comfy. And that's how I've been sleeping ever since. My belly loves it!!!

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  6. Glad to hear things are going good. Isn't it nice to be on the losing side instead of the gaining side. I have my seminar next friday... i can't wait

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  7. oh the sweet relief of mushy foods :)

    very proud good weight loss

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  8. lol. I remember my first bowl of oatmeal the first time I was banded... oh it tasted like steak it was so good!

    Congrats on the loss!

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  9. Congratulations! And lol! I love your comparison to when you said you were a mom. :-) I felt that way when I was a Mrs., too! (I had a 1 year engagement, ugh!) I can see why it would feel weird off your tongue..and like you had to wait 9 months for a baby, you had to wait about that long for your banding! So it's darn similar!! You for so long were NOT saying it - now you can flash your....well....you can say it! lol :-)

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  10. Congrats so glad to hear its going so well hun!
    xx

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  11. congrats...you are doing awesome!

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  12. All that hard work you've been doing is paying off. :)

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  13. Giiirl, I was sleeping on my stomach two nights post-op, roll over on your side! I promise you it'll only hurt for a minute or two. :)

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  14. Congratulations! You're doing great!

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  15. just coming by to check on ya... hope you are well..

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  16. Sounds like you are doing wonderfully!!! I get banded on Aug. 23 and I am so nervous, excited, anxious, and scared at the same time but I know once all the pain is over I'll do great. Keep up the great work and blog!
    Missy

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