Lapband update

It has been 11 days now.  I have lost 20.6 pounds!!  My tummy is still tender and I tire easily still, but not too bad.

So here is the thing about losing 20 lbs in 11 days.  IF it were only calories, then I would have had to burn 70,000 of the little buggers!  That is almost 6500 per day. NO WAY I am burning that much laying around recuperating so clearly there is something else going on here.  There is a theory out there that says the surgery resets your metabolism and really that is what I was hoping for and it does seem something like that is going on.

It is very interesting to note some of the things that have changed.  I am very fussy about what coffee I drink normally.  I simply cannot drink old coffee.  Blech!  But now I think I have lost some of my taste for the coffee I normally love.  Hmmmm...

I also do have an occasional craving.  We went to Famous Dave's for Ben's birthday date last night and when the food came out I really, yeah...really, wanted some of those ribs.  Just a taste.  But I knew that if I did I would get very sick and the craving passed in just a minute or two and didn't come back.

I find it sad that 20 pounds barely shows on someone of my size.  For someone of normal weight 20 # would be 3 dress sizes!  For me you have to know just where to look to even be able to see it.  But I am okay with that.  I know that this is a process. I also know that *I* can tell.  There are things about being very overweight that no one talks about.  Like how hard it is to turn over in bed past a certain point.  I can turn over in bed much easier today than a week ago.  :D  I am one of the *apple* shaped overweight people and have an enormous abdomen.  Sigh.  It is softer and not as firm as it was and has shrunk but not by a lot yet.  I can see dents in it now though.

Things I am looking forward to:

Crossing my legs
Being able to get up off the floor.
Fitting in a normal sized bathtub for a real bath.
Being able to get into the bottom shelf of my cupboards and fridge.
Picking up something off the floor without one foot in the air behind me and tons of embarrassment.
Being able to scratch the back of my shoulder.

So if I am ever out and about and you see me do any of those things just feel free to congratulate me!  Well unless it is the bath.  If you are hanging out in my bathroom we will have other things to discuss!