BandCamper
I'm a loser!! :)
Apr 01, 2010
Well, one week in to the pre-op diet and it’s going ok. I’ve had some head hunger, and I’m really wanting something crunchy to chew on other than my fingernails! I caved and ate some mushrooms as the nutritionist said I could put some sliced mushrooms in my broth, as they have no calories. That’s all it took for me to rationalize that I could eat some more and not sliced up in the broth. I felt bad so skipped having any in my broth to make up for it. Ha…like it was a deal I made with the Food Fairy.
The good news is that I’ve lost 8 lbs in the first 7 days! That was exciting! And it’s been a motivator as I was thinking about any calorie free food I could get away with (there’s that making deals with the Food Fairy again) so I tried to think about trying to get to a 21_ number instead of 222 as I just weighed in at. That would be cool before going in for surgery! Hopefully that will happen before Wednesday and it helped me to stop thinking about what I can get away with! And I’m not even hungry; I’m just waiting for time for another protein shake and knitting to keep my hands busy.
I read the article on the home page of OH website about people making comments. Very timely as I haven’t even had surgery yet and I had to ward off unsolicited advice! I had to phone pharmacist to see if I could crush all of my meds to take after surgery for the first week. He had all of my meds records and started telling me how I should see a nutritionist to try to lose weight to resolve all of my co-morbidities instead of taking “drastic measures like lap band surgery” to do something I could just do myself if I tried hard enough! The nerve!!! I started thinking about the article and the advice it gave about how to deal with these ‘well meaning” buttinskis! Finally, he took a breath and I just thanked him for his information and insights and hung up! Ugh! That felt good. I wasn’t going to argue with him or tell him that I’ve already done ALL of that and it didn’t help me to lose weight. I guess that was a warm up to deal with people who wanna tell me what to do!
The next few days will be busier, which will help pass the time before Wednesday, surgery day. My daughter is flying in on Tuesday to stay for a week to help out. That will be fun and I’m getting the house ready for her too. It won’t be long now and I’ll continue to be a loser!
