Good morning to all!! Thank you so much for checking up on me as I begin this new journey. Things have been moving along well, I've had a few bumps in the road here and there, but over all I feel good, I'm loosing weight (maybe not as fast as some might like), but I'm ok with loosing inches within my clothes first and then noticing later that the pounds have dropped. I'm now 7wks post op, and so far I've lost 28lbs. I don't really know what the average weight loss should be for someone like me, but I'm ok in how the weight is coming off. I walk 2-2.5 miles at the gym 3-4 days a week, and I've begun lifting weights for muscle toning. I'm registered in the Cowtown 5K Marathon which takes place here in Ft. Worth, TX on Feb. 28th. My daughter and I will be walking the 5K..not running. Lol.
Over all, I feel good. My arthritic knee has not being bothering me nearly as much as it had been last year this time, and I'm sure that's because of the pounds I've loss so far. I've finally found a protein shake that I actually like! Its the Premier Protein 30g protein, 1g of sugar, 160 calories. The strawberry & cream is the best. I purchase this at Sam's for under $19.00 for a case of 12. I'm drinking 2-3 protein shakes a day along with my vitamins and chewable bariatric calcium. In the beginning the bariatric calcium pills (horse pills) were gagging me- even after being cut in half, so I was told about some chewables from my doctor's office and they work. I order them online, they are not cheap-but they work.
The hardest part of this journey for me has been trying to get it into my head that I no longer have the gastric bypass, I am no longer dumping because my food is actually staying within my tummy without emptying quickly. With the gastric bypass, my stoma was open wide and when I ate, food just passed on through so I could actually just keep eating. Now I can't do that, and there have be times that I've ignored the fullness warning signs and have taken just one more bite-only to end up vomiting. This has been the biggest learning adjustment for me so far, and its not pleasant. But, I'm beginning to pay closer attention to how I feel while eating, so hopefully I have learned my lesson.
Sorry for the long post...Have a good day everyone!
Over all, I feel good. My arthritic knee has not being bothering me nearly as much as it had been last year this time, and I'm sure that's because of the pounds I've loss so far. I've finally found a protein shake that I actually like! Its the Premier Protein 30g protein, 1g of sugar, 160 calories. The strawberry & cream is the best. I purchase this at Sam's for under $19.00 for a case of 12. I'm drinking 2-3 protein shakes a day along with my vitamins and chewable bariatric calcium. In the beginning the bariatric calcium pills (horse pills) were gagging me- even after being cut in half, so I was told about some chewables from my doctor's office and they work. I order them online, they are not cheap-but they work.
The hardest part of this journey for me has been trying to get it into my head that I no longer have the gastric bypass, I am no longer dumping because my food is actually staying within my tummy without emptying quickly. With the gastric bypass, my stoma was open wide and when I ate, food just passed on through so I could actually just keep eating. Now I can't do that, and there have be times that I've ignored the fullness warning signs and have taken just one more bite-only to end up vomiting. This has been the biggest learning adjustment for me so far, and its not pleasant. But, I'm beginning to pay closer attention to how I feel while eating, so hopefully I have learned my lesson.
Sorry for the long post...Have a good day everyone!