It's been two weeks today since the surgery. As of this morning I'm down 25 pounds - I've gone from 328 to 303! Woohoo! I'm hoping to be down 40 by my one month check up with Dr. Evanson. We'll see. My jeans are still tight - ok, they were way tight before surgery, now they are just normal tight. :) My rings definitely fit better though....they were getting pretty snug. I have a tub of clothes in the basement that I could wear 5-6 years ago. Hopefully I can pull those out soon!
The eating is going well. I'm living on canned chicken and fresh fruit. It's getting a little boring, so I've been experimenting with spices and condiments and trying not to eat the same thing at every meal. When you only get to eat 6 ounces of food a day - you want to make it good right? The protein drink is the biggest bummer right now. It tastes ok, but I'm just getting so tired of it. Sometimes the thought of drinking another protein shake makes me want to gag. I'm headed to GNC soon to get some different flavors - hopefully the variety will help. They constantly stress how important it is to get the protein in, so I just keep plugging away at it. I'm used to being able to just chug my drinks down. It's frustrating to only be able to sip. I'm not getting in all of the fluids I should. Hopefully I'll get a routine down soon. I can definitely tell when I drink too much to fast - hurts my baby stomach.
I've had some questions on the type of surgery I had. It's called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. I initially wanted to have the lap band done which is where they put a ring around your stomach to restrict how much food you can eat. The lap band is more easily reversed which is why I was leaning towards it. Dr. Evanson said he wouldn't do the lap band on me as it just isn't the right procedure for me. Reason being: The average person who has lap band loses about 50% of their excess weight where the average peron having RNY loses 75-90% of their excess weight. Well, being 180 pounds overweight, if I only lost 50% of that excess weight, I would still have been considered morbidly obese, thus it wouldn't have solved my problem. The RNY has greater success because it is restrictive like lap band in that you can't eat as much, but it's also causes malapsorbtion - since my food sees less intestine, less of the calories/fat/etc. are absorbed into my body. RNY is also reversible if I would ever need to have is reversed. I've attached a picture of what my stomach intestine looks like now. They don't remove the rest of my stomach. It still does some work - processes body fluids from other organs.
Ok, that's about all for this post. Thanks to everyone for your support!
