Slow progress

I am making progress, but it is really slow. 
Since I wrote last; I finally told my youngest daughter about my surgery.  I was waiting until she noticed that I was losing a lot of weight, but she never did.  She was home for sring break, and delivered a long lecture to me about how she has no patience with fat people.  She has no sympthy for them because they brought their health problems upon theirselves. I told her on Easter Sunday.

 My son chewed me out yesterday about not doing better on my diet.  So I felt that I should read over the materials they gave me at the New U program.  I will be posting information below that I am reviewing.  But first, how have I progressed so far?

Total weight loss this year:
34.5 pounds
My weight at the beginning of the liver shrinking diet which started 2 weeks before the surgery.
And by the way, the last time I weighed this much was way back on July 27, 2008!

Total weight loss since the surgery:
29 pounds

Diet per day Rules:
Drink 64 oz. fluids
Eat 3 meals, no snacks.  Chew each bite 20-25 times.  Eat slowly.
Eat 60g. Protein.  Include a low-fat protein in every meal.  Eat the protein part of your meal first.

I think I'll make a chart to use each day.

Slow learner

I seem to be a slow learner.  I ate my yummy lunch way too fast.  It hurt!  I had to stop eating, and didn't even finish the small amount on my plate.                                
 I finally started to exercise with my daughter Nancy on March 14th.  And I felt healed from the surgery.

First 30 Days

No more weight loss.

No weight loss

I am discouraged.  I am not losing weight.   It seems like I hardly eat anything.   I am not drinking 64 oz. of water a day, so I need to do better on that. I tried to wear jeans on Tuesday but the jeans irritated the iincisions that are still healing.   I went for a nice walk today in the sunshine with Nancy's family in the snow.

First bad nausea

I hope I learned a lesson today. I had not eaten today.  And I was in the SLC airport so I had limited choices.
I bought a chicken wrap.  I ate too fast, and I ate too much.  It hurt and I really had to fight throwing up. I had to lay down on my back.

I am feeling extreme weakness today.

Interesting discovery

I realized something interesting about chocolate on Sunday.
Whenever I have an argument with my husband,  I can eat endless amounts of chocolate,  easily eating 1 pound of candy bars. ...NOT ANYMORE!  

After arguing with my husband  felt the emotional habit of eating chocolate. I dished up a half cup of sugarless ice cream and put chocolate syrup over it. I took 2 small bites and didn't want anymore.

Then I  mixed up another old favorite: some brownie mix stirred up with a little bit of water.  I also ate 2 bites if it and through the rest away.

Late Sunday evening I was visiting my daughter Katie and she offered me a cookie: chocolate no bake.  Shortly after eating it,  I began to have shoulder pains which I tried to massage away. It wasn't until the next day that I made the connection; at my one week appointment I talked to the surgeon about my shoulder pain.   He told me that the first 2 days the shoulder pain is from the gas they put inside during surgery and that after the first 2 days it is referred pain from the stomach.

In February I lost 23 pounds

My total weihtloss for February is 23 pounds.  My friend Patty noticed that my face is looking thinner.  It was nice to hear something nice.