Catching Up

I haven't posted on here in a while! To be honest not a lot has changed lately - eating most of the same things - doing most of the same exercise - and the scale has not been budging a whole lot lately. For the most part I'm okay with being patient, but it has definitely bugged me a liiiiittle bit. ;)

Coming up on Wednesday will be another follow-up appolintment - 6 weeks for Ian and 8 weeks for me. Although my 2 months is still not until the 20th so that's when I'll be doing new photos and measurements :) But this Wednesday I will do another official weigh-in.

So now to catch up on some of the things I've missed on posting! First of all, clothes are continuing to get bigger, so I must be getting smaller.  :) I think I mentioned I bought shorts at Wal-mart and since they were cheap, I also bought the next size down. Well already, the original ones are too big and I'm wearing the next size down. Also the pair of shorts I wore in my before pics - and also in the 1 month pics - are falling off of me now too. My bathing suit got too big on top... so I busted out my smaller one!

Even since I started wearing my smaller suit, I also feel like it is getting looser. Yay! I now have a pile of stuff to take to an alterations place. I want to try to take in my shorts, and take up the straps on my bathing suit and a couple tank tops. I'm not ready to spend money on new stuff at the moment, because I have so many things in this size and the next size down - except shorts, tank tops, and bathing suits lol. So if I can save those and keep using them, that will be great.

I also wanted to talk about going to BBQ's. We have been to 3 BBQ's in the past couple of weeks. What is a post-op to do when you can only eat so little, and you see a spread like this:

They had so many things I normally would have eaten. But I'll show you what ended up on my plate:

What you see there is 1/2 a bratwurst, 1/2 a slider-sized steak burger and 3 rainier cherries. However - I only ended up eating the piece of burger, one cherry, and 1/2 of my 1/2 of bratwurst :) A while later my aunt brought out mini-sized ice cream containers (those teeny ones you can buy - ben and jerry's has them, haagen-daz, and apparently starbucks now too.) I had the Starbucks java chip... but I only ate about 3 bites.

At this particular BBQ, I had an easy time. Chips and other things that I normally would want, I passed right over them. No gazing longingly or thinking about it or wanted to have one. Interesting!!! However the previous weekend at my aunt's I had 1/2 a bratwurst and ONE bite of fresh corn on the cob (soooo delicious), as well as one small bite of watermelon. That time was a little harder because I LOVE fresh corn on the cob and I really wanted to eat a whole one.

Overall I think a BBQ is one of the easiest family/eating out/party events for a post op, because the focus is meat! As long as that remains true on your plate, you are good to go. Get your protein, a little fruit - done! When you're full, it's pretty easy not to want anything else that is around you.

Also when I posted about cleaning out my closet, I mentioned buying some clothes from ebay. They were a little too snug at the time but now most of them fit. Yesterday I wore this red one with a white tank underneath and I think it looked pretty cute.

That's all for now! Back with more soon :)