Ok so I am finally starting to feel better now. I am losing quite a bit of weight and I think I am slowly starting to feel normal again. I am a bit surprised at how draining the first two weeks was, not just physically but more so emotionally and mentally. I still get very nauseous when I smell food or look at people eating huge amount of food. I went through a bulimic stage where I would make myself sick just not to have anything in my stomach. I cried often and Stu just stood by me, taking it all. He is such a rock to me. I still feel like making myself sick after eating something. Not because I have to, it is more a need. But I am distracted from it at work and at home Stu keeps me busy. It is great that I can tell him these things and not get judged. I am in the soft mashed food stage of this diet. I find chicken very easy to eat but now find myself craving bread ~ something I never really used to eat and sweet stuff! After speaking to my friend who has had the same procedure done, we found that a lot of people have switched eating tendencies after the surgery. People go from a salty eater to a sweet eater. I never really used to like curry but now I want to eat it. Maybe foods with intense flavour are paramount as you have to chew it soooooo much and you eat so little from it. I find it easier to eat throughout the day. Evenings are not as good as I still get nauseous. O yeah and today in the coffee shop was hit and miss as the sickly sweet smell of the coffee made me want to gag!I am not sorry for doing this procedure. It is getting a little easier day by day. I do whish that I was more prepared for the mental and emotional havoc after the operation. I think more time should be spend telling you about what to expect! Also it would have been nice to be told that you need to inject yourself for 5 days each morning after the procedure. That you have to take tablets for preventing ulcers twice a day and that you probably need vit B12 injections for the rest of your life. Maybe someone should work on a new formula to include all these meds in a liquid form an all in one formula that you take once in the morning. Including enough vit B12! I am looking forward to week 7 were I can start eating normal consistency food. Roll on the next 3 weeks!
