First post op visit

It has been a month since my surgery. I am very happy with the way things are going. I had my first follow up visit two days ago. They took my twenty staples out of my stomach and filled my lap band with 1.5cc more of silicon. They put in 4cc’s during my surgery. I found out my band holds 16cc’s. I am lucky enough to have the large band because of my body shape and where everything is placed in side of me. (In other words because the PCOS has caused me to carry 150 pounds on the front of my tummy) The fill was not that bad.

The good: I have exceeded their goal for me by 6 pounds. I have lost 3.5 inches off my waist, 1.5 off the hips and six off the….well lets just say…WHY do they have to go first? I never measured my arms and legs, but yes they have lost muscle and fat over the last month as well.

 The bad: I have not lost any weight this week. Most likely due to the bag of M and M’s I ate during the movie “TED”. If you have not seen it, go watch it!  I have however lost a half inch, which is more important.

Next goal: loose ten pounds by August 8. They makes us loose the weight very slowly.

So…staples are out it is time to start fully working out. I spent most of today cleaning and trimming up the flower beds, now it is time to work out, shower and go to bed.

Oh, and I found a healthy way to deal with my chocolate and peanut butter fix! My grandma use to fix nestle cocoa and dip her peanut butter sandwiches in the cocoa. We just call it cocoa. As an adult I have tried to stay away from it, instead I would eat Reece’s peanut butter cups. Now, I will try something new. It is called PB2 with chocolate. My dr. said she eats now once a day for her fix. It is only 45 cals and most of it is protein cals! She said to buy it on Amazon.com

Again, thanks for reading! Feel free to comment. The blogging helps me to wrap my mind around things. It is even better when I hear that it is encouraging others that read my posts.