Okay, so life lesson learned. In my earlier posts I have been so judgemental and critical of the generous 6 oz of food I was being allowed to partake of a day. For this I say I am sorry, so deeply sorry. As the old saying goes you never knew how good you had it until you don't have it anymore. That's right, treat something bad and it will be taken away from you. Well, since about the middle of November I had been so sick to my stomach I couldn't blow my nose without gagging and dry heaving, brushing my teeth same thing. Didn't really matter what I ate I would be sicker than I had been with morning sickness with my kids and that was pretty bad. Even watching the cooking shows on Food Network made me sick. Well after I had missed 2 days of work in a week I got a hold of my Dr and the Tuesday before Thanksgiving he had me quit food entirely and go to drinking 2 protein shakes a day and keep up the 64 oz of water. Sounds brutal but within a couple of days I was feeling so much better as long as I didn't eat. Went to him the Tues. after Thanksgiving and he thinks it may be my gallbladder. Since then I've had a ultrasound, no gallstones. Then a Hydascan that injects radioactive dye into your liver then your gallbladder to see if it's dumping correctly. Well, went to the Dr today in the lovely snowstorm and tada I have to have my gallbladder out:0( And the only way to do it before the end of the year, when my insurance changes is to do it the day after Christmas. Oh, well, he thinks as soon as it's gone I can start back on soft foods and work my way back up to the foods I was eating. The last week things have finally started smelling good again and I've had a couple of nibbles of things and have done okay if I drink water with them. The protein drinks haven't been that bad, they are chocolate and the first sweet thing I had had besides yogurt since surgery, the only bad thing at 380 calories a day, that's more than the food I was eating so things have slowed down a bit but I'm totally stoked about losing 52 lbs in 9 weeks and 86 lbs total since the end of February!!!!
So life lesson learned, if you love something don't talk smack about it.
