The Good Things and The Bad

Geoff and the girls are in Tampa until Saturday, and while that would normally make me really excited to have the house to myself and to be able to do exactly what I want, well, I miss them, and I'm lonely!  I also don't have my good friend, Food, here to keep me company either.  It is Wednesday, and they will be back on Saturday, and I just plain miss them.  Huh, who would've thought?!  :) 

I also finally figured out the reason for my blahness of the past several days - I hadn't taken my Prozac since the day before my surgery.  Um, hello!!!  I sometimes like to think that I don't really need it, and then I forget to take it for a few days, and bam - I see very plainly the reason that I take it! 

I got out of the house this morning to run a few errands, but only ended up doing 2 of them.  I went to get a  pedicure, and then went and gassed up my car.  It took $90.81 to fill it up - that is absolutely crazy!  I should probably sell it and get a Yugo or something!  (Geoff, that is a joke!!) 

I'm doing okay on food.  Didn't that sound convincing?  I'm probably not eating all the things I should be - I am drinking a lot, so I'm staying hydrated, but this food thing is hard.  I know, I know I'm whining, but I'm not even craving bad stuff at this point - I'm just craving texture, and flavor.  I made some chicken salad yesterday, and did not put it in the blender, so I could test out my stomach, and I did good.  It tasted so good too!  I also had a couple crackers with it, but made sure I chewed them up until they were mushy.  I'm supposed to be adding protein powder to liquids and smoothies, but every time I do the food then tastes like chalky protein powder.  Basically, my life consists of trying to figure out new and inventive ways of eating mush right now.

Now for the good news - I weighed myself this morning and I am at 246.  I went into the hospital at 253, so I have lost 7 pounds so far.  Yay!  I know it doesn't sound like much, but I haven't been below 250 in years!  I'm trying to only weigh myself every other day - otherwise I am weighing myself every time I walk into my bathroom!  I'm only taking pain meds at night right now, and probably don't really need them then, but they help me sleep, and I might as well get as much sleep as I can right now while Mary is away.

I know things will only get better at this point as my days of eating mush are coming to an end, and I look forward to Friday when I will get back on the scale and see what wonderful things it has to tell me.  Until then.........................