1 Week Post Op & Weigh-In

Yesterday I has my 1 week post op appointment and my nutrition class for the next phase of eating. Unfortunately, they mixed up my times and told me to come to my appointment at 1:00 and nutrition at 2:00, but it was supposed to be the other way around. Thus, my appointment was VERY short (just pulling out the drain) because she said we needed to hurry over to the nutrition class. Then as we were leaving, a woman said to us "if you wait right here I'll be walking everyone over to the nutrition class." 15 mins later we figure out that's for the other group... and by the time we got there we missed the whole class and the poor girl had to say it all over again just for us lol. Oh well, I take comfort in the fact it wasn't my fault. :)

So - as far as my appointment goes, it was basically just my weigh in and getting my drain pulled. I never even saw my Dr. Is this weird?? I was expecting to see him. I hope I see him at the 3 week appointment.
By the way - getting the drain pulled out - NOT FUN! Yikes. It hurt but mostly felt SO freaking weird. The tube is so long inside and it came from all the way up by my heart. I do feel so much better now that it's out though. My pain decreased a lot more so I guess it was causing me more discomfort than I realized. I was even able to finally sleep on my side last night!!!!! :)

Now for the amazing part. My weigh-in blew me away. Remember, I started at 310. At my 1 week appt I weighed in at...

292! That's 18 pounds lost in 8 days. I know I lost 6 in just one day (the day before surgery when I was on liquids), because I weighed 304 the morning of surgery. So I also lost 12 more in the past week. Wow! That was definitely more than I was expecting. It didn't phase me too much though because for once I can honestly say that the number on the scale, the speed of the loss, etc... really is not the most important thing to me anymore. As long as I'm doing the right things, feeling good, making progress, I am happy. I'm of course very HAPPY to see the numbers go down on the scale don't get me wrong... but it was funny how when I saw them I just went "huh, wow, more than I thought, cool" not like WHOO HOO YIPPEEE OMG OMG OMG. Some people might think that means I'm not allowing myself to be happy enough about it but trust me it is such a relief that it is not affecting my emotions so much. I love it :) I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what it will be at my 3 week appointment.. but I'm sooo not stressed about it, which is awesome.

The nutrition class wasn't too incredibly important... I already knew the foods I can start having.. refried beans, cottage cheese, egg beaters, light yogurt, sf pudding. 1 ounce every 2 hours. But one new piece of info was that I should only try one new food each day until I've had all of them... I guess to see what I can tolerate and everything. So yesterday I had refried beans, and today I'm adding in cottage cheese. All is going well so far! I'm a little bit concerned because I still feel hungry and it doesn't feel like the 1 ounce is filling me up. But it's not really bad or anything, I can handle it just fine. So I'm hoping when I get to the next eating phase at week 3, it will be a little easier :)