How I Broke My Stall

My weight had been holding steady at 173-point-something for a good week or so. I was set to begin mushies tomorrow, but carefully began incorporating them (and other very soft solids) on Saturday, a few days early.

I don't feel like I progressed my nutrition plan too quickly; I managed the entire first two weeks after surgery on clear liquids and spent ten on full liquids.

I'm taking it as slowly as I possibly can and avoiding anything too dense. I'm in heaven with peanut butter, very ripe bananas, bits of mashed potatoes, applesauce, soft cheese, cream of wheat/oatmeal and finely mashed tuna salad.

The problem was, I was hungry! I was beginning to obssess about food and it was driving me insane. I stopped micromanaging my calorie intake and you know what? As soon as I allowed myself to consume more than 800-900 calories in a day, I broke my stall. I should have known better; if I was maintaining my pre-surgery weight with the nine zillion calories per day I was inhaling, it would only make sense that my metabolism would crawl into a hole and die on so very few calories post-op. I've shed another two pounds and my blood sugar has almost always been in the low-to-mid 100's.

I am open to the idea that some, if not all, of my "hunger" can be attributed to acid. I fully intend to start on Prilosec, probably tomorrow morning. I have about 14 pills of it left from before surgery and will start ordering it from Amazon on their subscription plan--the price works out to around six buck more per YEAR than my co-pay for the generic version--and no annoying extra trips to the doctor or pharmacy! Hell, my co-pay for one office visit is more than six bucks, so I'm actually saving money and precious time by ordering my PPI over the internet. Awesome.