Friday marked three months post-op so here's some observations I've made and updates on my progress. Long post!!
Weight on 3-7, the day I started the pre-op diet: 288
Weight on 3-21, surgery day: 272
Weight this morning: 224
So 64 lbs down in three months, 48 of those post-operatively.
The day of surgery I went in wearing jeans with a 44 relaxed waist without a belt. Yesterday I bought regular fit jeans in a 40" and a 42" belt. My old jeans were falling off of me and the belt (42-44) was getting close to being wrapped halfway around my body. Surgery day I had on a 2X shirt and also fit into 3X. Yesterday I bought two new shirts, both large. I've packed away every shirt larger then an XL and some of those are getting too big.
I've tested a few things I used to like before surgery and found that, for the most part, I don't like them. Two sips of my old fave, Dr. Pepper Cherry and I was done. One sip of a fountain Coke and done. Sweets like cakes and donuts, I don't care for. I like a few of my old cookie brands but I don't crave them. I can eat one a day, every other day and feel fine where before I could eat half the package in one day. I still like Entennman's Crumb Cake but I was content cutting off a 1"x.5" slice once a day. It took me nine days to eat one crumb cake where before I could eat one in two days.
Going out of town is a bit of a production. Gone are the days of just zipping into a fast food place when hungry, grabbing something unhealthy, drinking the soda and leaving. I went out this weekend and had to take three days of protein shakes, bars, and vitamins with me. Now I pay attention to how ubiquitous fast food places are and how bad they are for you. I went to McDonald's on Friday and got a McChicken and small fries, 590 calories. I didn't finish either one due to a combination of getting full and not liking it. I did enjoy the KFC chicken bites on Saturday but that was all I ordered, pure protein and no sides. Planning meals when traveling is a pain since I live by the no drinking 30 minutes before or after a meal rule. I don't know how I'm going to manage the week and a half in Seattle in September for my six month follow up.
Cooking the typical size packages found in the normal store generates a ton of leftovers so I either eat them over the course of several days or I end up throwing out a lot of food, which drives me nuts. When 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup of something, or 2 oz of meat, a tablespoon of a side and one or two broccoli florets fills me, even the smallest bit of packaged foods lasts a few meals. I bought a curry chicken and steamed rice from one of the restaurants here and got seven meals out of that. A chicken breast is usually three meals, one hamburger patty is two (though Omaha Steak patties cook down to about 2.35 oz. and I did eat one of those in a sitting), a lb of ground turkey mixed with Rice Sides, Sloppy Joe, or Hamburger Helper is four to five meals, at least. A half gallon of milk lasts two weeks or more. I save a lot of money on food, which is good and throw a lot away, which is not.
Soooo...that's all I can think of to say right now. If you made it this far thank you for reading!
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