Monday, January 25, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Dumping
Well, I've now had my first experience with "dumping syndrome." It was about 10 am and I realized I hadn't eaten anything yet. Instead of whipping up a shake in the mixer, like I had been doing, I decided to just grab one of the little pre-mixed "slim fast" type shakes I had used on the liquid diet before my surgery.
I took one swallow, then I took my vitamins. In just a few moments I was feeling really sick to my stomach. I thought, "I may have to change the vitamins I'm using... something's wrong." Just felt really bad. This general "badness" lasted for another two hours before finally culminating in an unpleasant time on the potty.
And that's when it hit me, "I think that was dumping syndrome!" I went in and looked at the ingrediants on the diet shake lable, and sure enough... SUGAR was number two. Of course the shakes I've been making in the blender don't have any sugar in them (protein powder, milk, Equal)... so I thought nothing of just grabbing one of these premixed ones. It didn't occur to me that it had sugar in it.
That was from only one little swig of that shake... I guess that's why it lasted two hours instead of just hitting me like a freight train. Which is the way I've seen it described by others.
Anyway... that's where I am today.
Yuck.
I took one swallow, then I took my vitamins. In just a few moments I was feeling really sick to my stomach. I thought, "I may have to change the vitamins I'm using... something's wrong." Just felt really bad. This general "badness" lasted for another two hours before finally culminating in an unpleasant time on the potty.
And that's when it hit me, "I think that was dumping syndrome!" I went in and looked at the ingrediants on the diet shake lable, and sure enough... SUGAR was number two. Of course the shakes I've been making in the blender don't have any sugar in them (protein powder, milk, Equal)... so I thought nothing of just grabbing one of these premixed ones. It didn't occur to me that it had sugar in it.
That was from only one little swig of that shake... I guess that's why it lasted two hours instead of just hitting me like a freight train. Which is the way I've seen it described by others.
Anyway... that's where I am today.
Yuck.
Monday, January 18, 2010
One Week After Surgery
I spent some time talking about the actual weight loss surgery, post surgery gas pain, vitamins... and you get to see my six little cuts on my big fat tummy - weight loss surgery scars...
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sunday, December 27, 2009
countdown beginning
Well, starting tomorrow morning, the real countdown to surgery begins. I'll be on a 1000 calorie per day diet for the two weeks prior to going in for the operation. (They want you to lose a good amount of weight before you go in for surgery so that your liver will shrink, making the operation easier and safer.)
My hubby and my mom are both going to try to do this with me...which I really appreciate. For them, I'm sure they have that feeling of anticipation and excitement that's always there when you start a new diet. You have a bubbling hope that maybe this is the one.
However, for me, it's not that way this time. Instead I know I'm counting down to the last "normal" days of my life. It's not like a diet that you could occasionally cheat with...this is permanent. I sort of feel like someone who is getting ready to have their stomach amputated. That good old friend of mine...gone for good.
So it is with some amount of melancholy that I saunter into the next day. Half of me wants to pig out on everything I'm never going to get to taste again...and the other half is just sort of sitting in a corner crying quietly to herself.
Anyway...that's where I am tonight.
Monday, December 21, 2009
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