Well, work was soooo busy - I really was exhausted by the time the day was finished but no rest for me! When I got to the doctor appointment today I was 242# (hooray!) and he looked at my incisions and then declared I had five rules to follow from now until goal weight:
1) Only eat when you're hungry.
2) Stop eating when you're full.
3) No liquids with calories. None, never, nada.
4) Focus on protein - minimal carbs, lower fat. But they should be finely ground or soft.
5) Never drink with or three hours after a meal.
This seems like so much less restriction than I hear from other bandsters! No mushies, no transitional foods - just right to the diet. Doesn't that seem strange? That said, I managed to find a lunch (a few finely diced crab sticks and some mayonnaise) that was nicely filling. The trouble came when I got to the grocery store.
It felt so strange to have to walk past the beautiful produce. I know that pasta, bread and rice are no longer on my to eating list but it was still odd to sail past another entire section with an empty cart. Got to the meat department and then just stared. What was easy to digest but low fat and could pass through the stoma? I picked up some marinated shrimp and a little package of lump crab. Then I found lean ground chicken. I was on a roll! But then I hit the diary products - what was OK? Yogurt and ice cream and milk pass through too easily. The only thing I could think of was cottage cheese. Two tubs of low fat. Three inner aisles yielded almost nothing except two 8 ounce can of nuts and three cans of crystal light mix. I was looking at this little tiny pile of food to meet my needs for the next four or five days. That's when I realized how much my life has changed - this is a completely new looking grocery cart. Still feeling lost...
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