Day 30

Well, today I am taking on board the advice given my the doctor.

Fluids till Monday, might as well not bother with Sunday seeing as it can only help to give it a bit longer.

Before meals, I can drink right up until my first bite. Knew that already, and have been doing just that.

After meals, no drinks for half an hour... not an hour like I was doing (which was a killer!).

On the odd occasion I CAN drink with a meal. Doctor just said that it negates that meal for weightloss. Over all I should still lose weight fine as long as I stick to the rules 80% of the time.

COOL.

I can handle this. This is actually better than I imagined.

I actually feel like a HUGE weight has been lifted from me.

I can eat what I want, when I want. This totally eliminates craving for anything. Just eat a healthy diet. He told me not to bother with slimmingworld and to spend the money on a holiday. I didnt tell him I have about 10 a year already!! HA HA. Apparently we dont need low fat diets, just a Healthy diet.

1st day post fill....
I had a 5oz coffee this morning. DS made it for me and said
"I made you a 5oz Mum, because you might not be able to drink an 8oz".
I thought "Mmm. Yeah sure. Oh well I can always get another one..."
But the little chap was right! I was full after a 5oz coffee. Wow!

I had to take my tablets after that, and down my co-codamol which I was told I MUST take for the next 3 days or else, and it did feel a bit to fill in there.

Then, because DS is going over to my Sis in Law's for a sleep over (SHOCK INVOLVEMENT WITH NEPHEW!!)I drove him to the dog quarantine centre where my Sis is Law was picking up her dog after 6 months, and we chatted for a bit (ANOTHER SHOCK!!) and then left him with her. I was then feeling a little peckish, so I ate my low fat custard that I brought with me just incase such a thing occured!! How organised am I? I astonish myself!

I am still full now. So this morning I have had a coffee and a custard and its 10:30. I would suggest that the fill is.....WORKING!! YAY

I have been advised that the first fill sometimes wears off a little. There can be a little evaporation through the band or port and once the stomach swelling lessens again, or I lose weight actually from the tissues in my stomach, it can get a bit loose again... So not to be suprised if it doesnt stay restricted like this.

I think 4cc is a heck of a large fill, but we will have to see.

I am going to phone the chemist now and see if they make a soluable form of my prozac or similar as taking 2 of those is like eating a 3 course meal at the moment!!

L8erz

P.S. check out Helen and Erika's blogs......>
Helen and me are at the same place and Erika is a little ahead of the game. Cool to have people on the same page as me. I dont feel so alone...
all together now AHHHH !!!!!!!!

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A whole day on fluids went well. I have had about 3 pots of custard and some soup that I made from a post op lab band recipe book. It was really nice.
You basically sauteed some onion and 4 cloves of garlic, added a tin of tomatoes, a pound of turkey thighs, a can of Campbell's condensed chicken soup (with 2 cans of water) a little cumin and a half teaspoon of chili flakes and boiled it away for an hour. after that you blended it with a hand blender until it was totally smooth and it was REALLY yummy! I will be making it again for sure. It made enough for about 6 people. I froze the other portions in take away cartons that I had saved up. I stockpiled them before my band as I just knew that I would need them!

So I had a bowl of that, some smoothie from "innocent" and also an Ella's kitchen one and a yogurt. So its more food than I was eating after surgery, but not so much as I was on say Wednesday before the fill!

I must admit I have drank a lot more water today, because we went to a quiz night this evening and they only had coke and lemonade or orange juice as soft drinks... so i just had water. I could have had the juice, but all that custard and orange juice... ooow no. Don't think so.

We came 2nd .... AGAIN! We lost out AGAIN to the swat team who obviously spend their entire lives behind encyclopedias and are all about 100 years old. None of them even smile. They sat there all smug and nodding. Tragic. Everyone on our team was trashed by the time it finished, except for me on water, and we still came second. We also only had 7 people! They do ti every time. Oh well. At least we all had a really good laugh.

I had SERIOUS wind. I was burping all through the quiz. I also had bottom burps!! I just had to let them out and wander!! Thankfully they were just gas.

So good day all round.

Work tomorrow... Also having our ceiling plastered in our front room. So thank goodness I am out whilst the mayhem happens.