In this particular post, I think it's important to show what I hadn't even noticed until my husband took this second photo today before we headed out. I wasn't actually posing; I was waiting while he checked this other camera to make sure it worked before we headed out to Rockport, MA for the afternoon. That's my I'm an Impatient Bitch stance.
When we got home and I was downloading photos from the camera, I came across this one and decided to compare it against the one from just prior to my surgery. It's only been two weeks so I didn't expect there to be much of a difference yet, but, well...the proof is in the photos.
The shorts I'm wearing today haven't fit me since I bought them in April and I suspect that by next week they'll be too large in the waist as they were a bit loose this morning. In the last 11 days, I've lost 19.6 pounds - far more than anyone led me to believe I'd lose in even the first month since my BMI was at the low end of the range to qualify for the surgery in the first place.
My days are starting to become more 'normal' now even though I'm just under the two week post-op mark. This week, I've added eggs, cottage cheese, shredded chicken, crackers, various cheeses (ricotta, boursin, Laughing Cow cheeses and feta) and veggies (tomato and cukes raw, potatoes, carrots). I'm able to space out my meals to every 2.5-3 hours or so and I've gone out to restaurants twice - the first time ordering chicken and rice soup and today, I ordered a Greek salad but only ate the tomatoes, cukes, olives and feta cheese.
A typical breakfast is an egg (either scrambled with 1 oz. of cheese or hard-boiled and made into an egg salad with a tiny bit of low fat mayo, mustard and paprika). If I make it into an egg salad, I'll put it on two crackers. That's all I can have right now before I'm full. Around mid-morning I'll have a mini Babybel cheese as a snack. Lunch has been shredded chicken salad (sometimes with BBQ sauce, sometimes with a little mayo and some relish) on a few crackers. Dinner is more of the same, though last night I had a half of a Boca veggie burger on a half a sandwich thin and that was enough.
I am averaging less than 800 calories a day right now, but by next week when I can start to add back in more protein, veggies and starches, my target is 1,000 a day. In addition to eating less, I am moving more. I'm walking at least 30 minutes a day - usually more - and even on days when I'm stuck at home throughout the rest of my medical leave, I just put on some music and dance for a while at a time.
When they say that weight loss surgery is a tool, and only that, they're right. I've still got to make the right choices when I'm eating and I've still got to move and get this body active.
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