I had to admit, emotionally yesterday was one of my hardest. My friend Sue warmed up the left over homemade beef broth for me. I was able to drink 16 ounces within a 30 minute period. I felt like I should have been able to consume as much. I then started having really horrible cravings and when my tummy is empty (like during the night while sleeping), the pain is intense. So I started crying. I thought, "this surgery isnt working and i did all of this for nothing" I had also only shown 1 pound weight loss (before today's weigh in) so I just felt defeated.
I woke up today and called my doctors office . I wanted to discuss the above as well as an incident that happened while at walmart with my friend. I was pushing a shopping cart and was behind a lady in an electric car. She flipped it in reverse without looking and rammed right into my cart which pushed into my abdomen. I screamed out (did I mention I have 5 incisions lol) she was so rude about it. But none the less, it was painful. I'm ok, but thought he needed to know.
So anyway as I was talking about my concern of being able to consume 16 ounces of liquids in a 30 min period, they told me that this is perfectly fine and I cant consume too much on liquids. So I will no longer worry about that amount of liquid. She also said that in may lose inches before pounds at times so not to be concerned. I then stepped on the scale and it was closer to 5 pounds so now I am a very happy person. Oh, and the emotions....she said that will continue to happen until things stabilize.
So let me share with you all about ways we are making my liquid diet more tolerable:
Premier protien shakes are good, but they still have that aftertaste and smell if a protien shake. We are mixing half of a serving with half if a serving of Fairlife milk. It's high in protien, low fat and low sugar. When I mix the chocolate with the milk, it is a creamy chocolate milk. Soooo delicious. I did the same with the cookies and cream and added a little cocoa powder. Holy smokes, that is amazing.
Today i am having cream of celery soup. homemade of course. Its cooking right now. I can not wait to have some. We have tasteless protien powder to add to anything we make to add addition protien component.
I'm 24 hours post pain meds so I definitely will say, I am on the road.........
