Tomorrow marks week 5 post surgery. Hard to believe it's been 5 weeks! On one hand, I'm kinda mad at myself for not loosing more weight than I have, but on the other it's better than gaining! I'm pretty much at a point where I can eat whatever I want, which amazing people when I tell them. I always get a weird look and "REALLY??". You see, what most don't understand is this time between post-surgery and fills. Right now there really isn't any restriction when it comes to eating. I'm not eating near as much, but still I feel like I'm eating too much. Maybe I'm too hard on myself. I don't know.
The frustrating part is thru all the classes I took for 3 months prior to surgery, nobody ever educated us about this time between surgery and fills. I think it would have helped knowing this so I wouldn't feel so impatient and frustrated. I go thru all the education and group sessions, go thru the surgery and now it feels much like I didn't' even have surgery. Yep, I know....I'm impatient and I'll look back on this blog and laugh!
OK, so this Wed. is my first fill, it sounds like it's not until the 3rd fill that I'll start feeling the restriction. I'll be sure to keep you posted!
I'm feeling great tho, I can finally lift weights and strength train, altho I'm taking it easy and slowing working up to where I was at! I'm up to 40 minutes on the elliptical machine, hard to remember when I started and couldn't make it 5 minutes! ha ha
Hang in there and I hope you push yourself to find the time to exercise! It feels great!
Thanks for reading my blog! Merry Christmas!
Kerri
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I'm one week out from surgery today and struggling. Not sick. Just still very tired and extremely sore and the incision for my port is not healing well.
Did you have any problems in your recovery?
HI Wendy! Julie has been asking about you!
Great to hear from you! I felt the same way you did. But my incision was ok. I'm sure it'll heal ok tho!
Being tired was tuff, that and sticking to liquids and soft foods when you can eat other food without any internal problems. I did hold off until I was 2 weeks out but then eating solid foods was pretty easy.
Keep me posted on your recovery!
Kerri
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