Week 10 Weight (2 months post op)

Starting weight - 132.3 kg
Today's weight - 110.6 kg
Total loss = 21.7 kg

YAY!  My weight finally shifted again. Lost 4.6 kg this week.

Today is 2 months since my surgery! Here is an update on all I can think of...

FOOD
I am officially on complete solids this week. I have been eating most solids already but now I am allowed to!  Examples of foods I am eating:

Breakfast - Either 60g of baked beans or 1 scrambled egg or 1/8 cup of porridge with honey ( I make 1/4 cup but never get there). Drink water or diet cordial

Morning tea - Flavoured Chobani fruit yoghurt pouch (sometimes I finish it all some days not so much) or two fruits.

Lunch - usually leftovers from dinner (chicken, pork or beef with veges) or half a small wrap with chicken avocado olives cheese salad. The bread on the wrap is so filling. I've only had two wraps since surgery and both times ended up opening it and eating the inside contents because I felt so full and sick from the bread.  Drink water.

Afternoon - Most days I skip afternoon snack but otherwise olives gherkin cheese and sometimes 3 or 4 jatz. Or just an icy pole.

Dinner - meat and veg or salad... every night.  Examples bbq chicken and salad, roast pork and baked/steamed veges, my mexican night is chicken mince with taco seasoning, kidney beans, tomato, avocado, lettuce, lime and sometimes sour cream - YUM!  Or I make pasta sauce, bolognaise mostly, and give my family pasta while I add a little potato or just eat the bolognaise on it's own.  Or pumpkin leek corn chicken omelette... shepherds pie, something like that. Drink water or lemon lime bitters cordial.

I am still loving ice and have icy poles and frozen drinks... sometimes I feel sick and it helps settle my stomach.

Now that I am officially on solids, my restrictions are just to go slow, listen to my stomach and stop before the full feeling. Also to not have liquids while eating but I still have trouble breaking that habit. I usually have a sip or two while eating. My nutritionist said no pasta or bread until six months but that's just me. Usually can have wholegrain breads and wholemeal pasta just not much and not often. Obviously no drinks with bubbles but I can start small amounts of alcohol again if I want, mainly wine or spirits (I don't drink much, or ever, so that's nice to know but doesn't change anything for me).

EXERCISE
I have been exercising...not much admittedly but still I am. I haven't been swimming like I wanted due to laziness,  cold mornings and eye infection. I have been doing the cross trainer at home when I can. I don't last long before my daughter comes to get me off or I stop from exhaustion. It has helped my energy levels though and think it may have contributed to my weight loss this week.

VITAMINS
I take my sleeve multivitamin,  hair skin nails tablet (when I feel well enough) and birth control everyday.  Because my stomach is so small I can only take one tablet at a time and have to wait like half an hour to eat drink or have another one.

I'm not sure what else...

I have started feeling really really cold... I know the weather is changing for winter but I am constantly freezing. Must wear multiple layers.

My energy levels vary.  Some days I am really awake and ready for busy busy busy, other days I am zonked by 9.00 am and struggle through the day. Could be that on top of it all I have zero caffeine intake which most people still drink tea and coffee to help. I have nothing but my food water and exercise to jolt me awake. Some days I don't jolt too easily.

The feelings of 'sick' that I keep referring to... it happens two ways, if I haven't eaten yet I start feeling weak and really empty and I know I need something NOW. Because I am not getting hunger signals anymore, if I am busy and get caught up, it is very easy to forget to eat (something I never thought possible! ). So I eat or drink and that feeling goes away.

The other sick feeling happens after I eat... either ate too quickly or too much or if the food is acidic (like pineapple which I love) I start to feel tight in the chest, almost painful, or like the food wants to come back up but never does. Just need to sit or stand still and wait the 10 - 15 mins for it to be over. It isn't every time I eat but at least once a day I get some form of sick feeling for a few minutes... then it goes away and I feel fine.  It has gotten better and less frequent the more I have healed.

I don't get back pain or leg pain or puffed out exhausted for little effort anymore. I dance enthusiastically all the time and feel like I could just keep going... has been a long time since I have felt like I don't HAVE TO SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW! Hahaha Something I used to say all the time.

I am still very happy, no regrets whatsoever. My clothes are getting looser and looser, my body is getting smaller and smaller... especially around the waist area... and I feel really good.

=)