Pre-pre-op weight: 293.5
Surgery weight: 284.3 (-9.2)
Current weight: 276.2 (-8.1, -17.3 total)
Had my first post-op appointment today. Everything is going great so far. As noted in the prior post, I've been sampling a few things in the phase after the post-op full liquid phase, with no issues. But now I have permission to move forward to the next phase.
That means I can now consume scrambled eggs, mashed banana, small amounts of mashed up baked potato, pureed (or extremely well chewed) fruits & veggies, cottage cheese, tilapia or other flakey fish, and 93% lean ground chicken/turkey (yech). All of the above is subject to how well I can tolerate it.
I can't tell you how happy that makes me. I was soooo tired of all the liquid / yoghurt / soup / pudding meals for the last 18 days. Wow. That was the hardest part of this whole experience. Anyway, I promptly made myself two scrambled eggs and a cup of milk. I was only able to hold about half the eggs (aka 1 egg) but boy was it delicious. Tonight, I'm already eyeing some tilapia that I'm hoping Lori will prepare while I am in real estate class (only 3 more classes to go!).
One of the outcomes of the meeting with the PA today was the discussion of a goal weight. 180 would be under 25 BMI, which is considered "normal" weight. But I think that would be too much for me. We settled on 200 as my goal which would be a BMI of 27.1 - "overweight." LOL. Oh well. I'll take it.
She encouraged me to keep exercising, including strength training, in order to maintain muscle mass. I'm walking about 2 miles a day on most days, so that is good. Seth and I played pickleball last week and that seemed like a great exercise. Not very good yet. I'm starting to do some planks which helps with abs. Guess I'll work on upper body strength at some point. So far so good.
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