My one week anniversary.

One week ago today I had my surgery. On Wednesday I came home. By Friday I was off my pain medicine, out going for walks, going to see friends, and going to the movies. I'm not sure if the average person recover this quickly, but I am actually shocked with how well I am feeling after the first week. And, it's not just that I'm feeling good physically, I'm actually feeling good mentally as well. I don't mean to imply that I was sad or depressed before the surgery, I was not. I just mean to say, that in the last three or four days, I've really been in an exceptionally good mood.

But feeling this good does have its own set of problems. Right now the biggest problem is with my diet. There is an approximate four week transition for me to go back onto regular normal food.

This transition it in four stages, with stage one being the clear fluid diet, which I did while I was in the hospital.

Stage two is the full fluid diet. This is the stage I am right now.

Stage III is the puréed diet, which is as appetizing as the name would suggest. It essentially mean I'm eating puréed foods, soft foods, kind of like baby food I suppose. The good thing about this day, and the food I am looking forward to most, is scrambled eggs.

The final stage in the soft food diet. After this day, I can have normal everyday people food. Just not a lot of it :-)

My biggest challenge is, because I'm feeling so good, I want to hurry the process along and skip stages. However, I'm going to be good, and not move to the next day until my doctor tell me I can. All in all though, it should be about three more weeks before I can have normal food once again.

My next appointment at the hospital is on Wednesday. After that appointment, I'll post some more, and I will probably talk about more how much I weighed before the surgery, on the day of the surgery, and what my aspirations are.

Also, I friend of mine gave me the idea to start taking pictures of myself before the surgery and every few weeks or so after the surgery. I'm not sure if or when I'm going to post those, maybe when I have a few more so that the comparison vis-a-vis the weight loss will be more noticeable.