Finally after 6 weeks, I can start to eat some regular types of food… it just has to be puree’ed to within an inch of its life (to like tomato paste consistency)… but hey its only for 2 weeks… so by the time I head for the Mountain (Bathurst), I’ll be back onto normal food in new portions…
The physio session was cancelled this morning (the physio was sick), but the dietician session was fantastic and really informative…
Still eating and drinking throughout the day every hour or so for 12 hours, but at least its now something with sustenance and that should start to make me feel like I’ve actually had something and also stop the dizzy attacks… I mentioned to the dietician about them (and also confessed my spag bol on Friday night) so she said I should be right to start on mushies tonight…
So It’s ½ cup of mushies 6 times a day (or 2 more half cups if I’m still feeling hungry) – and the mushies are anything from cereal (oats, weetbix, pasta and rice) to pureed soft fruit (bought some Goulburn valley puree’s), soft boiled vege (potato, mushy peas, pumpkin, sweet potato); some real protein and dairy (fish, chicken, meat, eggs, baked beans, ricotta cheese, custard, milk – all low fat of course) as well as sauces and gravy… the only thing I cant have is fats and oils which isn’t a problem… They also suggested to blitz things separately so they still look semi appetizing.
I have just got home from the supermarket, and it was a good shop… Also got a new muffin pan – not for the muffins, but it’s a great size to measure out the ½ cups and freeze them for future – just like my sister does for my niece…
So what’s for dinner tonight? I’m thinking butter chicken and rice… I was going to make spag bol, but I had that on Friday night…
The other part of the session was going through how the band was placed, how big our new stomach is and why we must follow these diets, how the band was placed and stitched, why we need to follow the guidelines for no tummy type exercises, and the worst part, how you know if something is wrong with the band… She also said there is some fill in the band already, which I didn’t know… apparently now they do put some in during the operation, which they didn’t do in the past… how much – I don’t know… Guess I’ll find that out at my first band fill on 13 October – Some of this would have been good to know either just before you went in or straight after the operation… I mean I was told some of it, but I would have like to have known more…
Back to work tomorrow so it should be a nice relaxing night tonight in front of the TV watching Rafters and All Saints…
Weigh in tomorrow morning so that should be interesting to see how I'm going... They say that now were back on food, we should be looking at loosing 2-5kg's of excess weight a month... which is generally what they say is a good speed to do it... 1/2 to 1kg a week.
Until next time…
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