Day 25

Drank a pint of squash W A Y too quickly this morning. I was running late for picking J up for the meeting, so I necked it back quick before I could have my porridge and yogurt. However, it made me fill a bit hard in my chest. I am still full now though, and usually by this time I am starving!

So today so far I have had baby porridge mixed with a peach yogurt and mid morning 2 of them Ella's Kitchen smoothies and 2 cashew nuts on the way back from the meeting as I had to stop and get diesel from the garage, and DS wanted a snack so I got him some cashews. He loves nuts.

I got the wretched diesel all over my hands, and now they stink like I work in a shipyard.

So far today then, about 300.

I am not going to bother counting cals after today as I just wanted to know how many I consumed in a week, and to have a bench mark to measure against. Also to check I was not over doing it!

I feel like I have lost weight and I several people have said I look great. A couple of my pupils have said I look well and my M in Law's boyf ' said I looked really good yesterday too, which was lovely of him. A few people in the congregation have said too, so that's really great, and its only been 3 and a half weeks!! Woooo Hooo

I Love My Band!

I have also told a few people now.
I will list the people who know just out of my own interest:
DH
DS
Mum
Dad
My Brother
Mum in Law
Sis in Law
My Sister (you know who you are!)
Travelling Buddy
Mich, Paul and kids
Cindy
Malc
Joelle
Debs
Debs (another one!)
Tash
Rebs
Cheryl
3 of the mums
Loren
and another one that doesn't really count.

So 22 people. I told 1 of them today.

That's not bad. When I had the operation only half knew. It would have been less but the sheer logistics of it meant we had to involve some others.

I am much more open about talking about it now. I just didn't want to tell anyone before I had the op, as I didn't want to be put off. Just after the operation I didn't want to either because I wanted to see it work first. So now it has started to, I am not that bothered. The more people know about it, the better I think because it means others that might never have considered it will be seeing the results and choose it for themselves.

I will report back on what else I have to eat today later.

**update for today**
Had a really weird feeling all day.... Its sort of like indigestion... maybe a blockage of description...

I had a couple of grapes earlier today. This was my first try of fruit, and I have heard other people cannot tolerate them because of the skins. Maybe it is that. I must admit I didn't peel them (i mean - for goodness sake! like I am going to do that!) so they went down skins an' all. But it is a heavy pressure in the mid chest area... like indigestion but not heart burn...

I also haven't felt hungry since lunch.... mmm me thinks this could be the reason.

Anyway, Stomach acid is still able to enter my 'mini stomach' so it will eventually go I guess.

For lunch I simply had a bowl of prawns and cocktail sauce. I made a special journey to the shop because I really fancied it.

Now, I HATE fish. Or I used to anyway. I would eat the odd prawn, or cod or whatever, but FISH in general, or real fish that tastes like fish type stuff I could not bear!

Since banding I think I have eaten mostly fish as my protein. How amazingly odd is that? My body is obviously wanting the nutrients from fish.

I have had salmon a few times, all differently prepared too. Trout a couple of times, tuna and prawns and cod and hake. This is not like me.

So today my cals have also not gone haywire. I cant be bothered to work it out, but a bowl of prawns is not much. certainly not more than 300.

So there we go.

Guess what...

WEIGH IN TOMORROW!!! HURRAH

I have spent the evening looking for a kitten. what a nightmare. Does no one have free moggies anymore?? WHY?