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~~~The road may seem long

but it gets shorter

with each step we take ~~~

First Surgeons visit Post OP ----

Well I met with Dr. Speakman today and if you can't see my grin let me tell you it's HUGE.  Twenty-nine pounds since I first walked through his door on December 30th. I'm very happy with that number!

He was extremely happy with my progress, gave me the green light to go back to the gym and even use the weights as long as I started low and worked myself back up.  He's not concerned I feel like a slug and tire easily.  His first comment was, well you have just had major surgery, yes I heard all you that have told me the same thing echoing in my ears as he said it, lol lol.  He said the next 30-40 pounds will make a huge difference in my stamina even though my body will still be in the starvation mode where it's eating up the excess fat to stay alive.  So onward to loose the next 30!

I have been promoted from mashed and smashed food to chewable food, real stuff, like you all eat.  Meat, Fish, Chicken and vegetables!  I'm so happy.  He said he'd rather I didn't weigh and measure but instead each about the size of my palm and eat until I just began to feel full. This is a scary prospect for me, I think I'd rather weigh and know where I'm at but I'll do it his way.  Dr Speakman has been helping people a lot longer than I've been on this road so I trust him and his knowledge.

I wanted so bad today to get a piece of Halibut to eat, why that has been my craving I'm not sure.  The store we went to had a very very very small selection and I'd rather wait to go the Harmons (another grocery store in our area) to pick out something nice for my first adventure into foods like that.  Today I ate deli meats (I've had these before but I minced them to almost nothing before I ate).  Today I left the pieces as is and chewed and chewed and chewed and chewed.  I'm sure my fear of not chewing enough will lesson but right now I keep hearing how others have gotten sick from eating too large a pieces or too much. I'm bound and determined to avoid that at all costs.

So it was a wonderful day with positive uplifting news.  Tomorrow I'm headed to the Catholic Church's donation area to drop off my first bag of too big clothes, I'm sure this is going to be a monthly event, and one I am happy to make!

Next Doctor's visit in one month but I'll be back here long before then with more updates!