Well it's been a while since my last blog so I thought I would update today. I was waiting because I am still having trouble trying to eat solid foods. I am kinda stuck between Phase 2 and Phase 3 in the recovery process. I can eat solids and sometimes it makes me sick and sometimes not (usually it does at least a little). I have tried several different foods to see if there is one that works better than others, so far not really. Eggs or eggbeaters work the best for me so far, I usually don't feel bad after eating them and when I do it's very mild. I have also tried eating fat free all beef hotdogs, 96% fat free roast beef, grilled shrimp, chicken, pork ribs, and lean hamburger. All of these have had varying effects. Sometimes I feel terrible afterwards, sometimes I feel fine, and sometimes somewhere in between.
This has been a real challenge for me because, if you know me you already know this, I am a very impatient person. I am a very detail oriented person, I like to have a plan for everything I do and when things don't go as planned I get frustrated. I keep trying to tell myself it doesn't matter where I am in the process now I have to keep in mind the end goals and it doesn't really matter if that is accomplished by December or if it's March it only matters that I get there. The point of the surgery wasn't to change my life overnight it is to change my life forever and two or three months now will be worth the many years I have after.
I have returned to work, I went back this past Monday. It wasn't a very big deal and it went pretty well. I had very pain the biggest thing I noticed is I was exhausted at the end of the day. I am still not back into my regular routine and I think it may take another week or two to get my body back to a normal schedule. Physically the surgery hasn't been that tough, there was a lot of pain the first couple weeks, but keep in mind this is the first time I have had any kind of surgery so compared to others maybe that isn't abnormal, just something I wasn't prepared for. I have increased my walking. I am getting in at one walk a day of two miles at three mph on the treadmill. I am jogging three eights of a mile of that in eighth of a mile segments. I am trying to work up to jogging the whole two miles, once I accomplish that I plan to start trying for three miles.
Now for the scales just incase anyone is following along. I weighed 284lbs this morning. My pre-op weight on June 18th was 324, and my weight the day of operation was 309. The DR. is measuring my total lose from the pre-op weight (so that would be 40 lbs) but I am going by my surgery date weight, so I have now lost 25 lbs since June 29th, basically a pound a day. I don't know at what rate I will continue to lose the weight but my goal right now is to be 250 by the end of September and 220 by the end of the year. I don't have a long term weight in mind yet I kinda want to see how I feel as I lose. I did weigh 245 in college and I ran 3 miles every morning (actually it was around lunch since I was usually just getting in from drinking around 6am LOL) and lifted weights everyday. I don't think I am going to do much strength training nowadays so we will see about my weight once I get down closer to the 200 area.
So far there has been a lot of ups and downs for me. I am losing weight which is great but I am having trouble moving through the diet phases. I don't regret having the surgery but I sometimes wonder if it was the right thing to do and if will it be worth it. As with most things in life only time will tell. I have learned that not everything you think is great ends up being great and not everything you believe is terrible is really all that bad over time.
As always feel free to comment or ask questions.
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