Yesterday, at 8am, I met with an RD named Morgan. Went spent an hour together going over the appropriate lengths of time I would be spending on each phase of my progressive eating the days and months following my surgery. I was starting to be a realization that this was finally happening. I was a bit emotional on the car ride home. While listening to WCCO talk radio, which I do with passion, I heard a news story that Minnesota nurses are voted to strike again. This time, on July 6th, the date of my surgery. I don't plan on having any changes; but, fuck off and let's do this surgery!
As I mentioned at the beginning, today is the first "Official" date of my adventure. I started this morning with a delicious cocktail of vitamins, meds and Ensure. While I am awake, for the next 10 days, Boost or Ensure will be my every 3 hour meal, up to 5-6 times a day. I will be ingesting approximately 1100 calories for 10 days. Astonishing numbers if I think there have been days when I consume 10 days worth in 1 day. I have not felt sluggish or hungry, except when it's about 3 hours since my last one. In between meals, I can have broth or non-calorie, non-carbonated beverages, all day long. I was sitting at Zane's baseball game and was talking to Erica about all of this and she asked if I wanted one of her potato chips...she is not grasping the idea and HELL YES I WANT TO SMASH THE WHOLE CAN OF BBQ PRINGLES IN MY MOUTH! Then she said, oh right, sorry. I don't want people to think they have to apologize to me for me being fat. They didn't make me eat until I got this way. It's been all me baby! It's all me.
Day one on a liquid diet at work should be fun...
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