Originally Posted by
DesrtGal
So yesterday was 4 week's since surgery , BUT tomorrow will be exactly 1 month out. I ate one whole scrambled egg last night for dinner and am very happy about that. Doesn't sound like a BIG deal, but it is! I have only been able to get in 1/2 of a scrambled egg, no matter how hard I try. And if I could ingest almost 2 tbs of soup I was lucky. Nothing tastes right, not even sugar free pudding but I am hoping that will change.
I have lost 60 pounds to date, and 18 pounds of that since surgery. My BMI was 40.3 starting out in December and it is down to 31.2 I have NO pains in the abdomen (but then I never did after surgery) and my incisions are healing nicely. My clothing size has decreased and I now think I need to go down to a lower size in my athletic shorts I wear (started at 22, now in 12/14 and they are loose.) I am a shorts- wearing kind of gal.
I noticed a couple months back that my rheumatoid arthritis joint pains (and I had totally jacked up fingers and knuckles), the pain was gone. Between the weight I lost PRE surgery and my meds I have taken for the RA over the last 18 months, it all meshed together. I also have sacroilliac joint disease in my pelvis (that mimics sciatica) and the pains I experienced are gone too.
I am increasing my walking outdoors to 2 1/2 miles a day instead of the 2 and pushing for 3 miles in the next couple weeks. I am still working on getting that water in me, it's been a chore. But the worst time of the day for me is the first thing when I get up and have to sit down and take ALL my vitamins and supplements and my RA meds: it begins my day of being nauseated from the pills. (Even with the liquids I bought, but can not use, it stays with me for hours. ) It's so weird to me that each and every pill has a distinct bad taste and odor... never noticed it before. As much as it ruins the start of my day, I blow it off and march on.
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