Keep On Keeping On

It has definitely been nice to be in this 2nd stage of the gastric bypass eating regimen!  I'm in what is called the Mechanical Soft Diet.  I can now eat things that haven't been blended to death.  For the past few mornings I have had one scrambled egg, and 1 ounce of applesauce.  Can you believe that is all I eat for a meal now?  For lunch I've been having 3 ounces of very lean lunch meat and a couple crackers.  I found these cracker/chips by Special K, and they remind me a lot of baked lays, and really curb my crunch cravings.  For dinner I have 1/2 cup of whatever I have made for the family.  One night it was pasta with chicken and pesto - another night we had tortellini with spaghetti sauce, and tonight it was bowtie pasta with chicken and spinach.  I still have to chop everything pretty small, but at least I'm having real food!  Yay!  This part of the diet will last until the 2nd week in September and then I will start the Lifelong Diet, which won't be a whole lot different, but things don't have to be so soft and mushy all the time. 

Things have been good the past few days!  The four of us went to the pool this morning for about an hour - that was all Mary would stand.  The top of my bathing suit was just gaping open at the chest - apparently that is where the weight is coming off.  Very strange!  Abby asked me tonight at dinner why they only made my face smaller in the hospital.  She is so funny!  She thought that I would go for the surgery and come home skinny.  I explained that it would be quite a while before all this weight comes off.  Geoff said he thinks my face looks smaller also, so that is definitely nice to hear! 

I got a flyer in the mail from the Mayo Clinic about a Bariatric Surgery support group which has a meeting on Monday.  So I'm happy about that!  I can go hear what other people have to say and what their experiences have been with their surgery.  I'm looking  forward to that!

I decided to only weigh myself on Monday mornings from now on, because the scale just doesn't change all that often when you are on it every day.  It has been really hard to walk by it the past couple days and not get on it, but I have to hold out.  I will post my weight on Monday when I get on it!