Notes: The past week was a good week as it relates to the Band, eating, food, etc.
I think my stomach is just about all done being swollen, meaning I can eat as much as want if I wanted to do such a thing. The only thing I need to be careful of is the "big bite." If I take too big a bite it gets hung up in my small stomach for a brief moment before falling through the stoma and into the large stomach. This, as you recall with the hot dog about 1 1/2 weeks back, can be painful and miserable. I did it this morning with my egg white omelet and dry wheat toast. I neglected to chew properly (again, a sign of things returning to normal and my forgetting that I have a Lap-Band) and swallowed a lumpy piece of dry wheat toast and "WHOA"! It was not as bad as the hot dog incident but it did cause me to take pause. I have to never forget that I must always take small bites and chew the hell out of it! This will especially be important when the band is actually turned on, a.k.a filled to the proper tightness, cuz if I swallow food that is too big it will not make it past the stoma (about the size of a regular M&M candy). Speaking of which I see the doc on Thursday, I am expecting him to tell me that it is OK to start on regular food (what I can tolerate), should I tell him that about half of my daily food has been regular (non liquid diet stuff) food for about the past week? I will tell him, no use lying cuz lying ain't gonna cut it when you have to face down your demons. One thing I would like to talk about is something that happened this weekend. Now keep in mind that I m down about 3lbs since last week so I am doing everything right. However, this past Saturday night while up in Vermont I decided to have a cookie, just one I told myself, well that led to another and before I knew it I felt really bad for eating a bunch of shite food. The lesson I walked away with is that, although one or two cookies in of themselves is not bad, I have to stay away from that food all together! When you have 43 years of bad food behavior under your belt, and you also have an eating disorder (no fooling myself here, I have a food addiction) you cannot be around bad food, you cannot sample bad food, you probably should not talk about bad food. It is no different from an alcoholic and booze, it is in their best interest to stay away from everything that remotely reminds them of alcohol. Some good news, well I consider it good news, I am still have not found a job (the bad component leading up to the good news), but I am pleased to report no stress eating whatsoever! I am actually getting used to having a low grade hunger all the time. Once the Band is properly tuned the low grade hunger will go away cuz it will keep food in my small stomach for about 2-4 hours. Right now it is falling straight into my big stomach, and given the amount of food I eat daily, I am left pretty much hungry all the time. I cannot wait to begin the filling process of the Band!
Anyhoo, gotta go read and then get some sleep.
Cheers, Louis.
I think my stomach is just about all done being swollen, meaning I can eat as much as want if I wanted to do such a thing. The only thing I need to be careful of is the "big bite." If I take too big a bite it gets hung up in my small stomach for a brief moment before falling through the stoma and into the large stomach. This, as you recall with the hot dog about 1 1/2 weeks back, can be painful and miserable. I did it this morning with my egg white omelet and dry wheat toast. I neglected to chew properly (again, a sign of things returning to normal and my forgetting that I have a Lap-Band) and swallowed a lumpy piece of dry wheat toast and "WHOA"! It was not as bad as the hot dog incident but it did cause me to take pause. I have to never forget that I must always take small bites and chew the hell out of it! This will especially be important when the band is actually turned on, a.k.a filled to the proper tightness, cuz if I swallow food that is too big it will not make it past the stoma (about the size of a regular M&M candy). Speaking of which I see the doc on Thursday, I am expecting him to tell me that it is OK to start on regular food (what I can tolerate), should I tell him that about half of my daily food has been regular (non liquid diet stuff) food for about the past week? I will tell him, no use lying cuz lying ain't gonna cut it when you have to face down your demons. One thing I would like to talk about is something that happened this weekend. Now keep in mind that I m down about 3lbs since last week so I am doing everything right. However, this past Saturday night while up in Vermont I decided to have a cookie, just one I told myself, well that led to another and before I knew it I felt really bad for eating a bunch of shite food. The lesson I walked away with is that, although one or two cookies in of themselves is not bad, I have to stay away from that food all together! When you have 43 years of bad food behavior under your belt, and you also have an eating disorder (no fooling myself here, I have a food addiction) you cannot be around bad food, you cannot sample bad food, you probably should not talk about bad food. It is no different from an alcoholic and booze, it is in their best interest to stay away from everything that remotely reminds them of alcohol. Some good news, well I consider it good news, I am still have not found a job (the bad component leading up to the good news), but I am pleased to report no stress eating whatsoever! I am actually getting used to having a low grade hunger all the time. Once the Band is properly tuned the low grade hunger will go away cuz it will keep food in my small stomach for about 2-4 hours. Right now it is falling straight into my big stomach, and given the amount of food I eat daily, I am left pretty much hungry all the time. I cannot wait to begin the filling process of the Band!
Anyhoo, gotta go read and then get some sleep.
Cheers, Louis.
OK, it's 8:25 pm....where are the details? Slacker!! ;)
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