What are your challenges?

[Goober 1]

What are your challenges so far?

My big challenge is drinking enough fluids. I have always been bad at this and I am struggling to drink enough.

I also have to stop obsessively weighing myself :cool2:

I feel pretty good now, but have gotten stuck a couple of times and had 1 sliming incident.

I have my first fill next Monday.

[Goober 1]

I pb'd today :thumbup:

Is anyone else getting stuck or pbing before your first fill??

[thatDEgirl 1]

I am having a hard time getting enough fluids, calories and Protein...sigh.

No getting stuck yet though...

[PennyLane 0]

Did they give you a fill on your surgery day, Goober? What did you eat that made you PB? Mine is totally open and loose--I feel like nothing's really very different and I couldn't get anything stuck if I tried.

As for my challenges, it would be paying attention to the no more than 1 cup of food in one sitting rule (still on post-op diet). That's been tough, not because of hunger but because of habit. I'll fix a plate and realize that there's too much and set aside only about a cup to eat but then when I'm done the rest of it seems to call to me to be eaten. I have to get it out of my face then.

Also, exercise. I've been having a lot of port pain and some serious personal life drama (mostly resolved now) so I've had a hard time getting my motivation up this past week. But I resolve to at least walk around the neighborhood for 30 minutes a day, if for no reason other than to keep in the habit of doing something, anything "exercise" related daily. For me, the battle is mostly mental, and forming a habit. Once the habit is there, I'm good to go. I'm considering joining a Masters swim team (masters just means "over 18") because I was a competitive swimmer my whole life until college. Seriously, I was on the "tyke team" which starts at age 5 or 6 and kept going until I was 18. I loved it and was in pretty good shape, too :thumbup: