One month down!

[seeingme 91]

I'm actually a little over a month. My surgery was on 21/7. I'm down 29 lbs. I can't believe it! I feel amazing, and have noticed that when I go up and down the stairs a million times per day, I'm often running! Who would have guessed?

We're deep into winter in Minnesota (-14 degrees here today) and I don't DO outside in winter much, so I've been walking 2 miles a day on my treadmill. I have to fight my son for it though, because he runs several miles per day *as a reward*. If only we all loved running so much.

Eating has been going ok most of the time. I'm on solid food now, but I'm still figuring out what things I can't eat. For example, today for lunch was 1/2 a turkey Breakfast sausage and 1/2 an egg. (so a total of about 10 small bites, eaten over half and hour.) Nope! One of them was not ok, causing me to throw up for the first time since surgery. Oh man, my chest hurts SO BAD when I've taken one too many bites!! Feels like an esophageal spasm. Happened in a restaurant a few days ago. So not fun.

As long as I think about it, I have no trouble getting my Water in. I have several alarms set on my phone. They say things like "start drinking now" and "stop drinking now" and "start eating now" so I can be sure to follow the 30/30 rule. This works pretty well for me.

The last couple of days I have noticed I feel hungry now. STARVING somethings, but if I just drink my water or have a couple bites of a Protein snack, it goes away.

Constipation is probably my biggest enemy these days. I'm kind of in a weight loss stall right now and feel like if I could just POOP I'd lose again! LOL Every number I hit, I feel unsatisfied with it. Like, I was stuck at 185 for a week. The day I hit 184, in my head I was all, "Yep, there's 184, but that was so yesterday. I want 183 now."

Anyway, so far I'm so happy I did this, and can't wait to see where I'm at in June!!

[thenewdanni78 41]

Woo-hoo. Keep up the great work

Loving Me

[FunkyMunkyBrat 205]

Good for you.. Keep up the great job!

Munky

[NotThatBright 4]

That is awesome!! I am 6 weeks post-op and feeling amazing. Eating is still a learning experience but I am down 55 pounds from my initial weigh in, 40 since the surgery itself. I always worry about how I am going to screw this up like all my other weight loss attempts but relearning my habits through pain and discomfort (aka, the hard way). This is just in time for my 20 year high school reunion (unplanned coincidence) so it will be interesting to see the reactions on my old school mates.