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Almost 2 months out and I had planned to make a dumb blog about my journey through Weight Loss Surgery but as always I put it off and forgot all about the project. Well, Finally, here I am to tell my story because LeAnne reminded me to start one up.

Let's catch up on whats been happening for the past 2 months.. sort of like a quick time line of events.

Pre- Surgery

I was pretty effing scared. I was so nervous and anxious that I would die but something kept me from running away. In the back of my head I KNEW I had to go through with this. I remember being in anesthesia and the anesthesiologist asking me if I was nervous and I replied, "Hell yea, I'm about to rearrange my midsection willingly!" Needless to say he was cool and was like, "Don't worry you'll be out like a light in a couple minutes." He wasn't lying.

Post - Op

Day 1

I now know how someone feels when they are trapped in the desert. I was incredibly thirsty. If I had any energy at the time I would have thrown a fit just to get one sip of water. No liquids for 24 hours after surgery. Lame but necessary... don't need to be leaking everywhere internally.

My parents, brother and AiVi showed up to visit me. It was nice that they came and sat around with me. I was in so much pain every time they came around since I had just gotten out of surgery so we didn't talk much. I was pushing the morphine/pain killer button every time it would let me haha. It was the best medicine.

Day 2

I started twittering in bed to keep myself sane. The old guy in cross the room from me was SOOOO loud. I put myself to sleep with pain killers.
The nurses wake you up every hour to run diagnotic tests on you... it's a huge pain to be woken up every time. I'm able to sit up in bed now and enjoy watching the limited television programming available to patients.

Day 3

Earlier that morning my favorite "motherly" nurse pulled out the catheter... that thing I pretty horrible and such a weird feeling. She told me I had to take a piss within 2 hours or they are gonna put it back in me... while I was awake.
OH HELL NO!
I was doing everything I could to try to make myself do what was required of me. I had just started walking around the hospital wing and they suggested I walk around more to let gravity do its job. I walked around for 10-15 minutes and nothing.... I was freaking out. HOW DO YOU FORGET HOW TO PEE?!?! haha
After awhile of psyching myself out I actually managed to drain my bladder.... right before they came in with the catheter. I felt a huge sigh of relief.

Charlie had come to get me that day so I could go home and just lay in bed. He had called earlier and asked if it was OK for him to bring his lunch with him. Hahah Oh man that looked liek the best italian sub ever. He was enjoying it so much and it made me jealous. But I was glad he did it because I knew I had to control those jealousy feelings and if I wanted to be normal I had to be OK around people who are eating right next to me.

Now I'm Home

The next night after I got home some of my friends decided to come visit me and see how I was feeling. I had taken some Vicodin right before they came and after about 2 hours of playing video games and talking it had started to wear off. I wanted my push button meds from the hospital so bad. Healing is NO FUN.
It was like that for 3 weeks. Lots of pain and stiffness in my chest and abdomen area. I could only sleep in one position because if I rolled I would open my newly stapled wounds. Because I was only sleeping on my back I started to develop lower back and neck pain... ugh I was counting the days until the pain would subsisde.

Diet

For 4 weeks after surgery I was told to be on a "liquid only" diet. Which meant that I had to drink 4 oz of Carnation Instant Breakfast every hour. I aso had to drink 4oz of clear low/no calorie liquid inbetween each consumption of Carnation Instant Breakfast. So I would drink Carnation then 30 minutes later I would drink flat Diet Ginger Ale which then meannt 30 minutes after that i would have to drink the Carnation again. I did this cycle for 4 weeks.
You never know how much you miss chewing until you dont do it for 4 weeks. The only thing that I could chew was my daily dosage of Flintstone Chewable Vitamins. Those things are awesome!

Ater 4 weeks I was on semi - solid foods and clear low/no calorie liquids for 2 weeks. I ate alot of cheese and cottage cheese. I never knew cottage cheese was so tastey and good for you until then. And when I say I ate alot.. I mean that I ate 2 oz every 3 hours.. either cheese or cottage cheese.

And here I am.. 7 Weeks out and Last week I started eating solid foods. I've been eating, chicken, chili, cheese, cottage cheese and anything loaded with proteins. I am still trying out new food and it's amazing how everything tastes wonderful now.

I'm eating 3 oz of food (hopefully loaded with protein) every 3-4 hours and drinking plenty of fluids in between.

Weight Loss

I was told I had to lose 50 to be eligible for surgery.. I didn't really meet that goal but they still let me go through with the surgery because I never gained anything back! The day of the surgery I had lost a total of 32 lbs.

I came home from the hospital and weighed myself on my new scale and it said I had gained 3 lbs... LOL WTF! I guess it was all the IV liquids in me.

2 weeks later I had lost all of the extra fluid in me... and then some! I lost 15 lbs.

7 weeks out I have stalled out at 50 lbs lost since surgery.

That's 80 altogether since I started this journey. It sounds like alot right? To me its nothing. I need to keep going. How else am I gonna get to my goal?