I know it's been awhile. I know that I should have blogged much sooner than now to explain my journey to Mexico, the surgery and my post-op experiences. I have just honestly been wiped out. I will start tonight and explain all that has happened since my last blog post.
I continued on the liquid diet and although my body was obviously hungry and weak, I really no longer felt hunger toward the end. It's almost like I had finally surrendered and accepted that there was not going to be any food in my belly for at least the next 3 weeks. I did really well with only about a .25 ounce piece of cheese a couple of nights to squelch the fire of burning stomach acids. I took in many protein shakes - at least 3 a day - to keep my protein at a healthy level and I drank a ton of water.
As I packed to leave for my trip to Mexico for surgery, I weighed myself and was very happy to see a 25 pound weight loss! I had hoped to lose 30-33 pounds, but I was pretty happy to see that chunk of weight gone!
I can see now looking back that it was excellent "training" for the weeks to come post-op when my body would be even more weak just having had surgery and I was going to be accustomed to the liquid diet already, which would help me tremendously. It was all well worth it, despite the crying, hunger, hunger pains, frustration and crabbiness.
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