Two weeks down.

Nov 01, 2013

Can't believe I didn't post here about surgery! Two weeks ago yesterday I was in the OR, getting everything rearranged. And yesterday I started purees. Everything went really well with the surgery. Had pain of course, and a not-very-good reaction to the morphine I was on at first but after a week at my parent's and then a few days at my own home, the pain subsided and I feel mostly normal now. Still have trouble bending over to pick things up and I have some discomfort around the "deepest" incision site but mostly normal. Since surgery I have lost 22.6 lbs, and since starting Optifast I have lost 37.4 lbs. Pretty amazing! At first I was hoping to hit 60 lbs gone by Christmas, now I'm thinking that could be too easy!

Today I am starting exercise. I haven't done anything really since surgery except walking around the house and a couple times up and down the driveway - but that was more to try and improve my mood. But I was very generously gifted free access to a friend of my parent's small gym until Christmas, so I intend to make use of the gift! This lady is a personal trainer who just left GoodLife to open her own studio. It's in a century home which is gorgeous, the surroundings are great, it's small enough that you won't be overrun with people but you're not always there alone. It's just perfect, I think. So I'm starting with the treadmill, we'll see how many minutes I can do. Might only be 10 (or less?) to start, but if I go every day I can soon increase it. The key is to not push it too fast because if I strain any of these healing muscles I'll be in pain for eons. So slow and steady wins the race. Maybe I can be down 70 lbs by Christmas!

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