Entries for May 2009

So I've moved on to pureed foods. Today is 3 days post surgery. Last night I had pureed cottage cheese with some soy milk added to thin it out a little. It was yummy. Then this morning I had cream of wheat made with soy milk and also added some plain yogurt to it. I put a scoop of unflavored protein powder in the cream of wheat. I was able to eat about 3-4 Tablespoons of it and I started to feel full. 30 minutes later I'm really glad I stopped when I did or I would be in pain.

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Tomorrow is my surgery. I'm super excited.

I took the magnesium citrate this afternoon. It worked within 20 minutes. I've been pretty cleaned out already on this whole liquid diet thing. It's nearly 6pm and we're already "running clean" as it were. I'm trying to keep myself busy until around 8pm when I can do my shower thingy and go to bed. We went to bed around 1am last night and Ben got me up at 8am so I would be able to sleep tonight. I'm pretty tired right now....

I'm SO freakin bored. I never realized how much time Ben and I spend preparing meals and enjoying them. I have one more day to get through before I can do the whole "take the evil magnesium citrate" stuff. I might call tomorrow or Tuesday morning to double verify my information.

Oh lord. First day of liquid diet. It felt like the day CRAWLED. It's not that bad but I would KILL for even a damn slice of american cheese. It's mostly the salty/savory flavor I'm missing right now. I'm tempted to just take a salt shaker to my tongue. As it stands right now, I have had about 700 calories and 90g of protein... Maybe a slice of cheese will not throw me off the wagon. NO! NO CHEESE! I will NOT cheat. I am peeing like crazy, too. I've probably had about 80 ounces of water IN...

So I come home Friday from my 2 month follow up with my nut and find out I need to add 20 more grams of protein a day and that my iron is low, but other than those 2 small things I'm doing great. Everyone was so happy with my weight loss and said it just showed in my face how happy I was. I was finally coming to terms with the fact that my boyfriend was gone and that it was better that he had done it now while I was still strong from the surgery and not a year down the road when it would be easier...