Wow! I am loving my sleeve. As of today, I've lost a total of 27 pounds since I began my preop diet. The postop liquid diet SUCKS big time. There are some positive things about ot though. Besides the most important thing of allowing my new tummy to heal so I don't get a leak, the most fun thing is that the weight is just falling off me. Yay! I certainly do love that. I know one day it will slow down. Until it does though, I'm gonna enjoy the heck out of it!
In the beginning I had quite a lot of pain. However, today I count myself thankful. The pain is minimal at this point. I still take pain meds at night to sleep as I just sleep more comfortably. At this point, I have zero issues with constipation and reflux and I even stopped taking the reflux medicine shortly after I got out of the hospital. I also don't have many issues with gas. I had a little gas initially, but hardly have any now. Mainly, I feel a little of it in the center of my chest between my breasts when I take a drink of cold water. But that's it. I also don't seem to have any problems with liquids. No, I cannot drink as much or as quickly as I could preop, but for a postop VSGer, I'm able to drink quite amount, quite quickly. I wonder how I will do once I am able to start eating food. I hear that is when I will really feel the restriction. I feel it now somewhat. I now drink about 8 ounces of soup and I am stuffed. Preop, I could have a lot more than that and have other foods too with my soup so I know the restriction is there. I really cannot wait though to feel the restriction I will have with food. Preop, I could eat a pretty massive amount of food before I felt full. I can't wait to feel in control by being able to eat small amounts of food and be satisfied.
The ability to eat massive amounts of food in a setting has been taken care of. I obviously won't be able to do that anymore. However, there is the other side of my battle with food, the mental side. The surgery didn't cure that and my ability to continue to make bad food choices or to eat bad stuff all day. Grazing is what that is called. There are ways to cheat the sleeve and not be successful with it. It is only a tool, not a cure. I really need to figure out what I'm gonna do about that side of the issue. Maybe I need counseling. There is also this online self-guided program that deals with the mental addiction side of food. It gets great reviews. However, I don't know if those reviews are coming from people who have serious food addiction issues such as someone of my weight has or if they come from people who had/have little weight to lose. Not to diminish those people, but someone with 20/25 pounds to lose doesn't have the same issues with food as someone at my weight does. I think I might make a post on the VSG boards and get others' opinions and see what others have done. Yeah, actually I am going to do that. I think it could help me to make my decision.
As always, I wish everyone the best in their journey.
~Amy
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