What a week!

For starters, I lost 6 pounds.  Yipee, yay, hooray!  (I lost 3 yesterday)  Oh well, I don't care how it comes off, as long as it does.  Total pounds lost: 36
I recuperated from my nearly debilitating side pain from last Sunday, and am back to feeling good.  Monday will officially be 4 weeks since surgery.  That means I'm on solid food again!  Yipee, yay, hooray!
I have been successfully eating things  like salmon, fish, cottage cheese, a bit of lettuce last night, and a bite of tomato!  The one thing I haven't been able to eat has been my nemesis possibly my whole life...PASTA.  I think this is a blessing in disguise.  I mean, you would think something as easily digestable as pasta would go down easy...nope.  Not me.  But like I said, pasta has been my weakness my whole life.  So, I guess this will be a good thing.  I think.
I am finally back into fitting into my size 20 jeans comfortably, (I had been outgrowing them for some time) so that is a relief.  I hadn't gone so far as to buy clothes that truly fit me at my all time high weight...thank goodness because that would have been a complete shock to have to buy 3X or 22-24 clothing.
One thing that is very nice since the surgery is that I no longer SNORE.  My poor husband had resorted to wearing ear plugs it had gotten so bad.  And just with the small amount of weight I've lost, he no longer has to.  One small success at a time, right?
I will be trying to add in different foods as I go along here, seeing what agrees, and what doesn't.  Right now my favorites are Sargento Light string cheese, fat  free cottage cheese, shredded chicken and pork, chunky soups, and still loving the sugar free puddings as a treat.  I'm still at a point where I'm not able to eat much of anything after I've finished my protein, but I have gotten in a few green beans and a couple fork-fulls of rice pilaf.  Rice does seem to be okay, just not the pasta.  I am still at 4-500 calories per day; yesterday I had 629, and felt absolutely uncomfortable and piggish.  I will not do that again for a long time.  It is very difficult to get that many calories in one day.
I do still need my acid reducer first thing before putting anything in my stomach.  Hopefully that doesn't last too long!
I want to thank all my family and friends for being so supportive of me thru this process; it would be so hard if I didn't have you all surrounding me lifting me up every day.
I hope to update soon; thank you for reading!
Email me with questions!  lshepler@gmail.com