One week anniversary

One week ago today, I had my gastric bypass surgery. I'm now feeling much better. Last night was actually my first truly good night of sleep since having the surgery. My appetite is a bit better and I'm now able to eat almost everything I have on my daily menu. I'm being very good; eating slowly, drinking small sips of water throughout the day, walking and doing as much as I can (and this really does help a lot!). I must say that I'm looking forward to being able to incorporate solid foods to my menu because I have now been on a liquid diet for three weeks and I'm craving texture, chewing, consistency! 

I must say that given that I didn't have any complications as of today (knock on wood!), I'm very happy with my decision to have the surgery.  It's like I feel that I now have a very real and helpful tool, if not a very faithful and dependable ally, to help me in my quest to lose weight and keep it off whereas before, I mostly felt like my efforts were always insufficient if not altogether useless.  I truly believe that having the surgery is only part of the solution though.  I know I still have to make an effort towards my ultimate goal of being comfortable in my own body but I now feel equipped to do so.  It's like before the surgery, losing weight was like climbing Everest without oxygen: doable although very few have succeeded and a lot have either died trying or had to give up.  Now with the surgery, it's like someone gave me oxygen.  It's still going to be hard because I still have to climb the mountain and have a lot of obstacles ahead of me but instead of it being nearly impossible, the level of difficulty has decrease from 100% to maybe 50% to make it attainable.  I don't actually know how difficult it's going to be and was throwing random numbers at you there but I certainly expect that it will require constant efforts on my part and that it will be difficult. 

If you are considering having weight loss surgery and expect it to be the answer to all your prayers and that you'll lose the weight without putting so much as an effort once in a while, I think you'll be very disappointed.

I do hope that my condition will continue to improve as it has for the past few days, that my current mind set will be long lived and that I'll feel this motivated to adhere to the 10 golden rules that my surgeon gave me to help make the surgery a success but at the same time, I feel prepared for the many curve balls that lay ahead of me.  Watch me knock'em out of the park!!