I can't believe I'm 1 week out from my surgery. The first 3 days I was so nauseated that the thought of liquids other than water touching my lips made me gag.

By day 4 I was actually willing to have some sort of soup but definitely NOT chicken broth. My mom is Thai so she made a Thai soup which she always made me when I was sick, called Khao Tom (Rice soup). It's basically as it sounds, but the rice is cooked so long and it turns into yummy rice flavored liquid. I was still forcing myself to eat because I just didn't have the hungry feeling. It was so weird I could feel my stomach growling, it was like, "what's going on down there!"

Around day 6 and 7 I could start feel my hunger coming back. Not to the point where I was starving but when my tummy grumbled I knew I was a bit hungry. I've been reading the forums and found that Egg drop soup is good protein and since I love Egg drop soup, that's all I've been eating. I'm still only consuming about 400 calories a day and trying to get in my protein shakes.

And the port and gas pain is so annoying. For the first few days it was hard to even go to the restroom, at times I'd sit there for about 30 mins trying to figure out a way to maneuver getting up so that it didn't hurt. I thought I had a pretty high tolerance for pain but I thought wrong. I was and am still worried about moving around weird that I'll mess something up. Right now I can walk and move around and bend down without feeling much pain but I still worry. My incisions seem to be healing well but I don't know whats going on inside there.. I'd hate to have something go wrong. And my stomach itches like crazy!

I can't believe I actually had the surgery, it still doesn't feel like I really did it. Probably not until I get some restriction and I can start working out again will I notice. Not so much about the weight but more so the change in my life.