I miss my ketosis.
· Ezma · 03/22/2008 13:45
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I don't miss the dry mouth and bad breath but I really miss the ketosis cause I know it was burning fat like crazy. I lost it cause I couldn't resist that stupid chocolate cake. Think it only takes a few good days to get it back so fingers crossed that I can be good. I guess I haven't been that bad since I've been almost totally faithful to all the pre and post op diets. Couple small pieces of cake over a couple days is pretty normal I think. Plus if I beat myself up about it, it will only make me cheat worse. So here's to willpower and a good dose of ketosis.
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· Ezma · 03/20/2008 16:55
Well, I just found this site so I'm gonna try to catch up. I started this process on 4-28-07 at a seminar for Banner Bariatric. I did all the preliminary paperwork and doctor's records, etc. then had my first appointment with Dr. Rob Schuster in June of 2007. I had to have 6 months of doctor monitored weight loss attempt for my insurance so we began that process. I lost about 25 lbs but put back on 6 at Christmas time. During this process the original hospital, Mesa Banner was closed and everything moved to the new Banner Gateway hospital campus. Due to this change, my insurance wouldn't cover it until after the first of the year since it was showing out of network. Another lovely delay that ended up causing me problems with the $1000 flex spending I had set up to cover the surgery in 2007. Oh well, at least I didn't lose any of it as I was able to find things to spend it on.
Pre-op appointment was on 1-29-08 and I had lost about 18 pounds at that point. On 2-4-08 I started my pre-op diet that consisted of SF jello, SF popsicles, broth and zero calorie drinks plus 3 low carb protein shakes a day for 2 weeks. That part was a bitch but really gave me a head start on the weight loss. It also helped shrink my liver to make surgery easier and shrunk my stomach to help keep the hunger away.
Surgery was on 2-18-08. Everything went well and I had a pretty decent stay at the hospital. I came home 2-19-08 and started my full liquid diet on 2-20. This consisted of 2 oz serving of SF pudding, Lite yogurt, thinned cream of wheat type cereal or strained, creamed soup plus 3 protein shakes.
On 2-22-08 they found a tumor in my husband's brain and I had to take him to the ER at St. Joseph's hospital. On 2-25 they preformed surgery to remove the tumor and he was released on 2-29-08. He has malignant brain cancer. And so the fun began. He'll be doing a year of chemo and radiation - 6 weeks of 5 days a week and then to maintenance dose of 23 days off, 5 days on for a year. Enough of that. I already have a hospital blog for his care but this is my place.
3-4-08 was my first post op follow up and I had lost 28.5 pounds since my pre-op bringing it to a total of 46 pounds since beginning my journey. I also got to change my diet to pureed foods plus 2-3 protein shakes. Woo hoo! I was excited, now I'm sick of it. Oh well. Dying to know how much I've lost now but I don't have another appointment until 4-1-08.
I can't begin to say how sick I am of protein shakes. Isopure drinks have helped a lot. They have only 160 calories, zero carbs and 40 grams of protein. Nice wallop of protein there and tasty too. I've only cheated a couple times with cake. My son had his 13th birthday on March 10th and some people from church have brought some wonderful food and desserts including the oh so tempting chocolate cake. I am just now getting hungry and think that maybe I will be ready for my first fill. I really do need to cut the carbs back down though so I don't lose my ketosis. Fighting a tiny infection in 1 of the puncture sites but it's almost healed finally.
More later now that it's mostly caught up.
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