At LEAST you know HOW to spell BORED...I get crazy when I see someone spelling it board.Heeeeyyy...what about me? What am I, chopped goose liver?....jus kiddin.....I know you always say.."and Rob too"......It really is time for me to get my ass back to work, I'm getting Waaayy to BORED
Just sayin.
I'm about to start "that time of the month" (AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU'RE HERE FOR THIS, ROB) so it's possible I'm retaining more water as well. For the first time, I'm actually not discouraged/worried about it because I know regardless of what happens now I'll be losing for sure in a few weeks, heh.
You just hadn't posted in here in forever, Rob. I didn't know if you were still reading this thread or not, haha. All the recent supportive posts had been ladies.
Depending on how I stand on the scale, I either gained 3 pounds overnight (hahaha), gained 0.4 pounds overnight, or lost down to the magic 499 threshhold. I recorded it as gained 0.4 pounds - I think I'm going to wait to celebrate until I don't have to really finagle the scale to get it to read what I want, hahaha. It'll start moving again, no doubt. Maybe not as drastically.
I very much appreciate the support. I gained even more last night... couldn't help but think of you talking about gaining on 1000 calories a day! We'll see. I don't think the rollercoaster ride is over. Somehow I'm still absolutely fine on the pre-op diet. I'm really hanging in there. I think knowing it only has to be a few weeks of this helps!
Thank you so much, Rob.
I tried to do a before-and-after comparison photo, but at this size, you can only see it if you REALLY look hard, haha. Oh well. I'm just so thrilled I finally made it here.
At the end of the day, I had still only had about 850 calories and 64g of protein. The nutritionist had said it was okay to add a fourth Optifast bar if it got ugly...and for the first time I was considering it. But because of the carbs and fat and calories in the Optifast bar, it would have put me over where I've been staying most days for those numbers. So instead I had a low-carb, low-fat, high-protein protein shake with that protein powder someone was kind enough to recommend here. A little while later, I started feeling MUCH better. The dizziness and headache were gone, and I wasn't feeling as weak. So I seem to be just fine on this diet as long as I'm not super active. On days I'm super-active, though, I clearly need extra protein.
