Here is how my first month has gone down so far...
I ended up getting sick with allergies pretty bad. It sucks so bad to cough when you are still a bit sore from the surgery! This happened about 3 weeks post-surgery. Right around the same time I started getting really bad abdominal pain...
Three weeks after the date of my surgery, I was having horrible abdominal pains. I was nauseous. I was barely able to stand up straight from the pain. I was hoping it was just gas, but these pains did not feel the same as the gas pains I had in the hospital. I finally asked my husband to please take me to the emergency room. I was reading online, and a lot of people say gall bladder issues are very common for people who have the gastric bypass. So I was thinking the pain I was experiencing was from my gall bladder. It was a Thursday night. Not too busy in the ER but I had a bit of a wait. I was hurting so bad, I couldn't hardly tell the nurses how bad I was hurting. They thought I was in labor. Finally, my hubby came in and was able to speak for me. I thought I was going to die. I felt bad for our boys because we had to drag them out of bed to take me to the ER. After we got myself signed in, I told him to just go home. I figured I was going to be there for awhile anyways. Anyways, they got me back there and made me drink some nasty fruity water. Seriously, it sounds yummy but its nasty. I had to do a test where they make you drink that stuff and then they take you to a room and they injected me with some stuff that made me feel really warm and I swear I thought I was pissing on myself. I didn't piss myself though. Come to find out... Not my gall bladder... Not my appendix... IT WAS GAS! Gas pains for real??? I felt so embarrassed. The nurse I had told me to not worry about it. His sister had the gastric bypass a few months earlier and he said to never underestimate abdominal pain after the gastric bypass. His sister had gone to the hospital for gas pains a few times and she actually needed gall bladder surgery once. He told me to get some rest.
For a Thursday night in the ER, it was a wild night in the ER! There were about 5 drunk women in the place. The one in the room next to me was quite the spitfire! She was cussing out the nurses and the cop waiting outside her door... she was quiet for a few minutes and then I heard "I AM GONNA KILL THAT BITCH!" over and over and over... I personally liked the "That skank-hoe-whore-cheap-synthetic-weave-horsefaced bitch is going to die!" I think the lady over there had tourrette's syndrome cause once she started screaming and yelling, she probably repeated herself at least 100 times. It was comical but I was exhausted! But, the good news was it was just gas and I got some pretty interesting entertainment. :)
So, I have been experimenting with food. Seeing what I can and can not handle. I have a hard time with chocolate now. :( I get nauseous after I have chocolate. I was making my protein shakes with the chocolate almond milk, but it made me sick. Booo!
That's another thing. I throw up a lot. My biggest problem is that I can't seem to sip. I am a gulper when I drink and that causes me to get air in my tummy and gets me that gas and makes me sick. I also have swallowed foods that weren't chewed up well enough. I have tried chicken and I am just not ready for meats yet. :(
Now that the weather is getting nice, people have been cooking out and the smell of meat on a grill makes my mouth water! I want to eat a steak so bad but I know it would be wasted on me. :(
So this is what my food diary pretty much looks like on most days... Some days I have a hard time just getting in my water for the day, let alone food!
Breakfast will be a protein shake. Snack will be a plum or one of those Cuties (clemintines). Lunch may be tuna with a lil bit of lite mayo and relish and a pickle. Dinner will be cottage cheese and cooked veggies. Or greek yogurt and I will try to eat something like some chicken. Then, if I think about it I will have another protein shake.
I have been taking 2-4 Centrum chewable vitamins a day (2 in morning, 2 in afternoon. I said I take 2-4 because sometimes i forget to take either the morning or afternoon vitamins). I have calcium gummies and I take 3 daily. I have also started the B-12 drops but they taste like ass and really does not help me out much energy wise.
I have started going to the gym. This will be week 3 of me kickin ass in the gym. Actually, I am not kickin any ass in the gym. I get on the eliptical machine and try to do at least 1 mile, if not 2. Then I do the rowing machine for a few minutes. When it starts getting uncomfortable for me abdominally, then I stop. I can go about 5 minutes on that. I don't stop in there until I have done a full 30 minute workout. I find myself having a hard time working up a sweat. Before the surgery, I could walk 5 minutes and be soaked in sweat. Now I do a full 30 minute workout and now I "glow". I am cold a lot still since the surgery. This week I will be able to start weight training. So this week I will start one day doing cardio, the next day doing weight training, and alternate my days. I may even take one of the classes they hold, but I am not sure I am quite there for a class yet.
I need to post some pictures but to be honest, I have always trashed any photos of me that are not from chest-up. I hate full bodied photos of myself. I hate to see that I let myself go that badly. So tomorrow, I may take a photo of myself in my pre-surgery fave jeans and shirt. They used to fit me either snuggly or just perfect and now they are rather big on me.
So my next big goal is to reach 225 lbs. I told my hubby that when I reach 170lbs or when I get to a size 14 (whichever comes first) that we are gonna go to Vegas and I am gonna wear sexy type of dresses the whole time. LOL Maybe it will happen. Hell, at this point, I will be happy to just see the scale under 200lbs!
Take care yalls! Never Give Up On Yourself!
I'm so proud of you! Love you girl!
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