Week 5

Well... I've hit the 30 pound milestone.  yay!!

Yesterday, I went into my closet and tried on every pair of pants I own.  A few surprised me by fitting.  It's nice to see progress.  There's also the part of me that remembers buying the stuff that fits again as "fat" clothes a couple of years ago.  Yeah, I lost 30 pounds, but it's hard to be impressed within myself when I know that, not only did I let things go too far, but I let them go WAY too far.  I needed "fatter" clothes.  But... Hey...  At least I'm not sitting around doing nothing about it anymore and/or letting it get worse.  I guess I just remember all that hard work I did about 10 years ago.  I remember promising myself I'd never wear elastic waist pants again.  Boy was that ever a fail.  haha.  That's okay... now, I have tools to help me succeed.

Later on this week, Wednesday, to be exact, is the day that I finish with the "pureed foods" portion of my diet.  At that point, I get to phase regular foods into my diet.  I'm still bummed because I still can't have steak for another 5 months, but...  I'm sure it'll be the best steak ever created when I actually do get to have some.  Michael and I have decided that we're going to have steak for our anniversary since that's in 5 months.  We won't go out anywhere.  We actually like them better when we cook them at home.

I haven't made myself sick this week, and the incision that re-opened seems to be getting smaller.  I'm still packing it with the saline saturated gauze.  I did get a call back from my doc's office.  After assuring me that this can/does occasionally happen, that I did the right thing by getting it looked at, and that what was going on is normal, we decided it would be okay to wait until my 1 month post op appointment to have the doctor look at it.  That's Wednesday.  I'm sure it's going to delay my ability to do certain kinds of exercise, and I'm sure lifting restrictions will still be in place.

One thing is...  I'm itchy as fuck.  I'm not sure if my skin is dry or if it's because it's shrinking.  I'm using plenty of moisturizer, so... I don't know.  I can check on that at my appointment.