Today is Day 4... I didn't try on my jeans because I am still a little bloated from the actual surgery. Today was a busy day and I probably did more than I should have only being 4 days out but my surgeon said, "get up, get out, activities as tolerated". That's the tricky part AS TOLERATED.

What you may not know is I sing... I sing alot! I am in a competition barbershop chorus and also a competition barbershop quartet within that chorus. I am also in another concert chorus, and do solos for them often! So drinking water is NOT a problem for me... Anyway today my quartet had a rehearsal, at 10. Dr G. told me to take it easy, no high notes or really low notes but the rest is "as tolerated". Now mind you, ONE of my quartet members knows that I had the surgery the 2 others do not. Rehearsal was ok... we kept the practice easy and shorter than normal because I had a hair and nail appointment. DH is having a blast driving me to practice and then on to the appt's. After the appointments, we went and did a little grocery shopping and then came home... I had had nothing to drink except my milk with all my meds this morning and then water from that point on. When we got home guess what? I was hungry... actually hungry, for the first time since I got banded. SSSOOO, Here is the mistake I made. Dr G. told me I could transition into mushy foods on days 4-5 and then transition into real foods again after my nutritionist appt. on 1/21. OK... Yahoo! Mushy food... I'm hungry and I can have something mushy... What do I want??? KFC mashed potatoes and gravy!!! no drinking for 30 min before we eat, right?... so when I dish out the 2 small teaspoons of potatoes and gravy I am really hungry. So much for making the meal LAST... in 10 minutes, tops, those potatoes were GONE! Then I realized what I had done so I quit! I got OUT of the kitchen, went and laid down and started watching TV. 30 minutes after the potatoes I was sipping my water again but it just wasn't cutting it.... I took a shower and made myself a huge mug of white tea.

Right now, I'm pooped. tea is gone and I feel so extreamly overfull I don't care if I eat at all tomorrow. I have one of those "gas" pains in my shoulder, so I know that I didn't tolerate things to much today. Thank God tomorrow is Sunday and the only thing I have to do is get up! I am off for the Holiday on Monday too, then back to work on Tuesday. That will be exactly one week post op. Lets pray that I tolerate work alot better than I did today!

Whee! I am a singer too! Let me say, you are going to love how you sing after you drop some pounds! I have a BALL on stage!

It's hard at first and you will find you will have to re-adjust to live after each fill. Or at least I had to.

Take it easy, your body is healing and there are no "set" rules because everyone is different. Keep in contact with your nutritionist and it will all start to even out a bit.