4 weeks post op today!

I weighed in at 172 so that is 20 lbs down!! Yippee. Some days I think I made a mistake by having this surgery and some days I am so happy I did! I got my first compliment yesterday too about how much weight I have lost!! Those really help!

Fluids!!

 

This is my everyday bottle of watered down purple Gatorade (G2) that I try to drink everyday. Aside from Gatorade it is really hard for me to get my fluids in. I just wish I could gulp fluids down still! I do not think I have made my goal of 64 oz once since surgery. I really need to drink because if I get dehydrated even pre-sleeve it is all bad. I usually end up in the ER hooked up to an IV for hours on end! I am trying my best to get the liquid in but it is so hard!! 

Kids...

 

Well this particular morning was rough because the alarm did not go off so we had to rush out of the house with no breakfast but then we ended up with a few extra minutes and the boys said they were hungry! Stupid me agreed right away to bring them through the BK drive through secretly hoping I could take a bite of something! Well they got out of the car after eating and left all that extra food in my car!! I would have normally ate it all on the way home but today was different! I took all that food and dumped it into a garbage can and went home and ate a tiny piece of salmon we had cooked the night before! Yay me! it is a small victory but it is a victory! 

Distractions

 

Well since some of my clothes is already getting loose I have decided to distract myself by upcycling some of my big clothes into new one. Currently I am woking on making a long jersey dress out of a Shirt and some old tshirts. I will post a pic when I am done.

My breakfast...

Sometimes all I have time to grab in the morning is a cheese slice and five wheat thins... It is not ideal but leaving the house with 3 kids by 7:30 to pick up to more for carpool and getting to work by 8:30 is so very tricky for me.

Protein Problems

Yup, I'm bad and I know it..

 

I went out for Icecream with my kids and I caved and ordered a child size scoop of  orange sherbert :( . It went down ok I guess but it DID taste good!