Good morning, Fatsecret...
I slept SO good last night. I konked out at 7 PM, and slept all the way through to 4:30 AM this morning, when Wife got up. I had to get up to pee a whopping 4 times, though, but every time I found my way back to bed and fell asleep right away. I hope this is a new pattern (the sleep, that is, not having to get up and pee...).
I did great on my water intake yesterday - thank you for the great ideas to get the water in. I think what works the best for me is to simply have the reminder, and get up and drink water every time. It's easy enough for me.
Flushing my system DEFINITELY worked yesterday. I am truly amazed.
I lost 3.7 kgs (that's 7 lbs!) since yesterday! Of course, this is ALL water. Still, it's an amazing difference. I could feel it when I woke up. I felt "light" again, for the first time since the surgery. It's a nice feeling, and I am really happy that I am able to tell the difference.
This means that MOST of the fluctuation is gone. Sure, there is still some, but I can tell that my inner thighs aren't as wobbly, and I generally don't feel/look bloated.
I will keep doing what I have been doing for the rest of the week, I think, and see what happens. Again, focus right now is not on weight loss, it's on recovery. I eat what I feel that my body wants, and I try to make smart choices.
I felt some new aches in my scar last night. This makes me a little paranoid, as I really don't want anything bad to happen. I have no nerves in the actual cut, so I really can't tell what is going on, and I felt it on my lower back where I can't see. I had Wife take a look at it, and she says there is quite a bit of bruising. I'm glad it only feels like a tingle, because I really don't need to feel any more bruises right now. It does concern me, because I wonder how the bruising got there. Is it an after-effect from them tugging my skin? If so, why does it take so long to show? Alternatively, is it me not taking it easy enough? Am I pulling the stitches? Looking at it, Wife tells me that everything looks the very same, only with bruises. I hope she is right.
Just to make sure, I have e-mailed at photo to my surgeon, asking her to take a quick look. If something is wrong, I would like to correct it NOW, if something is infected or anything else, I want to take care of it NOW.
I don't feel like it's infected though. I would think it would be something I would feel more. There is no strange "infection-like" coloring of what I can think of, just bruises. I hope it's okay. All I can do anyways is to take it easy and try to not pull too much, right? So that is what I do.
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I went out for a little walk yesterday. It was kind of tough. We just walked down the street where I live (we live smack on the shopping street, above the stores, so there is always something to do down there) and it was nice. After 10 minutes of slow walking, it was time to turn around though. I got tired really fast. I hope (and believe) this will get better through the week. I have permission from the doctors to walk all I want, just to pay attention when my body tells me that enough is enough. We had a good talk about this, and we talked about this (listening to my body) really is key both in recovery but definitely also when it comes to weight loss.
If we could all completely listen (and obey) the needs of our bodies instead of the wants of our heads, we wouldn't need FatSecret. I do believe that our bodies always tell us what we need and what we want. Trouble is, we have taught ourselves to ignore it and do what we feel instead. We get sat, we eat. We stress out, we eat. We get hungry, we don't eat because we are busy, etc. You get the idea. What if we can simply change it back. LISTEN to our bodies.
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So right now I am in my little "nest", journaling. It's a little different today, for one particular reason that I will get to in a moment.
I have my recliner reclined. Pretty far back actually, to try to "lie down" as much as possible. I have my feet on the ground, as prescribed by the doctors. It actually does give me a more straight postition than if I lift the food rest.
Within reach I have 4 remote controls, an xbox game pad, thermos with coffee, glass of water, cell phone, laptop.
In my lap is kitty cat, sleeping tight.
And here is the unusual thing - this has NEVER happened before, that Kitty Cat would allow such a thing:
On TOP of the cat is my little external keyboard that I borrowed from a coworker. It is literally sitting on top of the cat, and I am typing away. It's been like this since the very beginning of this journal. Kitty Cat is purring, loving it. Normally, she'd have left a LONG time ago.
Oh yeah, that's right. I tried to find a virtual keyboard instead of the little bluetooth one. The bluetooth one turned out to react too slow for my typing. Then, I found a nice virtual one for my tablet. However, it didn't support Danish characters, so that one's out. Then I posted a request on Facebook, asking if anyone near me had a keyboard I could borrow. A coworker stopped by on her way to work to drop one off, and I am ever so thankful. THANKS!
So now I can lean back, be relatively comfortable, and still type a lot. I can much better reach the mouse pad on the laptop than I can the keyboard, so I don't really need the external mouse, but I do think we have one if I should need it. I just gotta find it. It's not really necessary though.
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I'm getting much better at sleeping on my back. I had no trouble falling asleep last night, and had no trouble falling asleep for a quick (or so I thought) afternoon nap. I ended up sleeping two hours - and I don't usually nap. Very impressive.
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So, what's in store for today? More of the same. Nothing in particular. I have some concert videos, a RUSH documentary and a few other things that I want to watch. Right now BB King is entertaining me. Oh, and at some point I gotta make it a priority to go do #2. :) My stomach is pretty badly constipated because of my medicine, so it's hard to accomplish this. I had Wife buy me some laxatives yesterday, and I will take it today hoping it will "help things along". My stomach is hurting, so I think it's about time. I haven't had "touchdown" since Friday or Saturday. :/
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There. Kitty Cat had enough and left. She'll be back, I think. Once I am more calm and put the keyboard away to watch TV, she'll be all over me again. I think she really enjoys that I am home. She's incredibly social this morning.
Today, I am thankful for:
- Kitty Cat keeping me company.
- Feeling better, even if I am more bruised.
- Dropping ALMOST A GALLON of fluids since yesterday!
- Wife being an amazing help.
Happy Tuesday! Life is good!
EDIT:
LOL! I had to go back and post this. When I weighed in, saved my journal, it said that with my current pace I would be done losing weight in one day. So I wondered what my average these days would be.
Well, according to my bio page, it's this:
Beat That! :) That's something you don't see every day...
