Today I am supposed to move over from liquids to mushies. To be frank I'm quite content to stick to liquids, I'm eating or rather I’m drinking an “Up and Go” for breakfast, a small tub of yoghurt for lunch or a V8 juice and organic soups for dinner. My surgeon only wanted to me to do liquids for 2 weeks rather than the mandatory 3. I of course had to ask him why and he said because he wants me to be “normal” and not make myself feel that I am depriving myself of anything. Gotta love my surgeon!!!
But I am confused as to what I should eat. This is my problem, when I don’t know what to eat my natural inclination is to turn to quick, fast food like junk food. The liquid phase for me was easy as my fridge was stocked with organic soups, yoghurts and so forth.
Sadly I am not a cook; in fact the only thing I have ever “cooked” was toast, cereal and coffee. Being a single busy woman my life has always been GO, GO, GO, and if I wasn’t having dinner at my parents, I was out at restaurants with friends. Now I am in a tricky dilemma. What do I eat?
I purchased a few cookbooks before my surgery and I stayed up until 1.ooam this morning looking through healthy recipes. I promised myself that after I had my lap band placed I would aim to stick to a totally organic diet and I would avoid red meat at all costs.
I think I was in my comfort zone whilst on the liquid phase! I spent some of my morning surfing the web trying to work out what mushies to eat.
How am I doing pain and hunger wise? Well, I am still not really hungry but today I experienced what I think may have been a tummy rumble. I was walking through Southland Shopping Centre and I stopped dead in my tracks. I looked at mum and asked her if that was her tummy or mine. She laughed and said it was mine. I then proceeded to walk and think at the same time…was I really hungry? Or was that rumbling my gurgling lap band?
I ended up doing my head in as I kept going round and round in my head was it a gurgle? No it was a rumble! Arggghhhh what to do? I decided that the easy way out and what the old Reney would have done would have been to go to the food court and eaten something naughty instead the new Reney bought a bottle of water and had a latte instead.
So was it a gurgle or a rumble? I still don't know. All I know is that the water and latte subsided all the noises coming from me but sadly I still cannot work out the difference.
On the pain front, well I’m really quite sore where my incisions are. Especially in the mornings when I wake up. It takes me a good 15 minutes to slowly get out of my bed and then a good hour to start to feel more mobile and agile. The best way to describe my discomfort and pain would be that I feel this tightness from one side of my abdomen to the other almost like I've been sliced in half. It hurts and it’s a dull ache that’s present all day long but it’s bearable. I am avoiding pain relief at all costs. I know I should take pain relief and I will if this pain does not subside.
I also went for a walk today and lasted 35 minutes. I know I could have gone longer but I am just so tired and I was really feeling the cold today. Elvis was pulling me all the way and I think this was also not helping my pain today.
Another funny thing I noticed today was I couldn’t stop burping. I haven’t even had any de-gas tablets for days but all this wind kept popping out of me today. I guess better out than in.
I’m off to the movies tonight to see Shrek. I’m excited to be doing something “normal”.
Reney.
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