I was going to call this Break On Through To The Other Side (thank you Doors). But I figured I'd get sick of it after a while. I'm going to use this space to keep track on the 2 week march toward surgery and then to keep track of the recovery and progress. That way I can keep it all together and if I just do one thread, it's all in one place without clogging up the Blog Area. I'm sure it's gonna be excruciatingly boring to everyone--me included! I'm a list and minutia kinda gal. I like tracking and counting--although I can be equally lax about crap. So I stop just short of OCD town (not that there's anything wrong with that).

My official 2 week liquid diet starts tomorrow. I decided to jump on it today because Sunday feels like a great place to start and because it's hard to do better than yesterday as my last food day before surgery. I'm a Texan, born and raised, and yesterday we had a fairwell to my ass and thighs via a Texas BBQ tour through Houston and Tomball. I ate so much brisket, sausage and ribs, I can honestly claim to be over it. Growing up in a BBQ family, slow smoked meats is almost in my blood. So it was only natural that I would choose that as the last rights.

I'm having RNY on February 20th and as I understand it, moist (fatty) brisket might not be my friend post surgery. Supposedly high fat foods (which moist brisket is) might cause a sort of "dumping" in the poop department. So I figure my future, once healed, might only include lean cuts of brisket and smoked meats. It's a choice I will readily make to lose weight and get my health back.

So the morning Day 1 hasn't been very difficult--a little hunger and growly tummy, but nothing that makes me feel anxiety. Protein drinks on board and this afternoon will shop for SF popsicles, SF jello and bone broth. I think I'll stick to packaged bone broth so I can get the actual nutritional information from a certified source. There's no real way for me to tell how many calories and carbs are in the bone broth I make here at home.

My Pre-Op Plan includes: 80-100g of protein; low fat; 60g carbs and somewhere around 1000cals per day.

4-5 Protein Drinks containing a minimum of 15g of protein per serving. They must be low fat and low sugar and can't contain over 4g of sugar per serving. I can have clear low sodium broths, sugar free drinks, sugar free jello and sugar free clear popsicles (no fudgsicles or ice cream based pops).

I will do this from now until February 20th.

I'm pretty sure I will be doing plenty of the following:

Edited February 4, 20188 yr by FluffyChix

Oh, man! You are just rubbing salt into the sunburn of those of us who are melanin-challenged! All my fat is unhappy fat! Fish-belly white or bright red are the only choices I get My natural skin color is closest akin to a fluorescent light bulb! Since all the public pools close at sundown, we put in our own pool so that the kids could swim after dark.

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by Orchids&Dragons

Aw man, I'm so sorry to hear that sweetie! ((hugs)) SPF 60 is my friend lol. I am seriously fish belly white and haven't tanned in over 7 years. I never get really "brown" or if I do, I haven't seen it since I was a kid!

And um, I'll be over at your place around 7pm to swim! hehe

Fluffy, do you still limit your quantity to 1/2 cup or have you eased up on that as you increased calories?

1 minute ago, FluffyChix said:

Aw man, I'm so sorry to hear that sweetie! ((hugs)) SPF 60 is my friend lol. I am seriously fish belly white and haven't tanned in over 7 years. I never get really "brown" or if I do, I haven't seen it since I was a kid!

And um, I'll be over at your place around 7pm to swim! hehe

Long drive from Houston, just saying . . . But you're welcome anytime. We can actually watch bats fly between the trees when we're in the pool.

We definitely do high-SPFs, but especially when the kids were little, it was just so hard to keep them totally covered. And anytime I missed a spot, the burns were horrendous.

Just now, Orchids&Dragons said:

Long drive from Houston, just saying . . . But you're welcome anytime. We can actually watch bats fly between the trees when we're in the pool.

We definitely do high-SPFs, but especially when the kids were little, it was just so hard to keep them totally covered. And anytime I missed a spot, the burns were horrendous.

We hang out at twilight for the bats in our pool, too -- they like the pool

Are you in the Hill Country? We're going to my sissie's house in New Braunsfels soon. Can't wait to hang out and tube. I'm gonna actually nut up and put a bathing suit on in PUBLIC! LOL! And will wear shorts and just hang! It's part of why I'm on a mission from God to "kinda" get a little color on my fish belly white arms. Especially the lymphedema arm. Have to watch sunburn like cray!

2 minutes ago, Apple203 said:

We hang out at twilight for the bats in our pool, too -- they like the pool

Are you on the water in Maryland? Being from Texas, I thought we owned "all" the bats. hehe

Just now, FluffyChix said:

Are you in the Hill Country? We're going to my sissie's house in New Braunsfels soon. Can't wait to hang out and tube. I'm gonna actually nut up and put a bathing suit on in PUBLIC! LOL! And will wear shorts and just hang! It's part of why I'm on a mission from God to "kinda" get a little color on my fish belly white arms. Especially the lymphedema arm. Have to watch sunburn like cray!

Nah, we're up near Fort Worth. Enjoy the tubing!

Just now, FluffyChix said:

Are you on the Water in Maryland? Being from Texas, I thought we owned "all" the bats. hehe

We used to get bats in our attic in New York.

Hi Orchids and Dragons from another Francis the Fluorescent, I am a redhead after all. I am so melanin challenged I came in 3 shades , burn-blister-peel, maybe by the summer's end I might rust. to a pale tan but even then it was more like continuous freckles.?

5 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

Hi Orchids and Dragons from another Francis the Fluorescent, I am a redhead after all. I am so melanin challenged I came in 3 shades , burn-blister-peel, maybe by the summer's end I might rust. to a pale tan but even then it was more like continuous freckles.?

I'm a red-head, too. 100% Irish, grandparents from the "old country" Used to try to smush my freckles together, to no avail! Now my skin is a permanent ruddy tone - from years of sun damage. Dermatologists love me - I walk into their office and they start thinking about summer homes on the beach!

No you can also be called a Celtic Princess, I think we both qualify. Did you,know psoriasis is called the Celtic Curse, it's so exclusive,to us that it is indicative of an Irish or Scottish ancestry. My 2 sons names: Kevin, Bryan , if I hadn't stopped making babies I might have a Declan, Conon, Padraic,or Sean. I wanted a dozen kids, because I was an only. Main reasons I stopped. 1 Late hubby didn't want them, he was the other kind of only, he liked it. 2 My pelvis had gotten so arthritic and narrowed to extent,Bryan barely made it out and any more would be C- Section 3. My then-OB threatened me with a Poro Section, do you know what that is? I forget if you were one of the ones who said they were a nurse? In case you weren't or aren't I shall educate you. A Poro section means C Section and then immediate hysterectomy. Lovely man wasn't he? You go in to have a baby and come out spayed. Bah dump dump dump.
I think,my desire to teach and educate is a throw-back to my rotten boy cousins dancing around, pointing at me and chanting "I know something you don't know!" So I set out to become very smart on a multitude of things so they couldn' t, heckle me anymore.
Oh often we are scarred or influenced by our pasts. Got to figure they,wouldn't be too thrilled with a cousin who sat and wrote poetry, would they?
Dermatology,is one speciality where you never,get too sick and you never get well, that's a reason they rub their hands together,when we show up, we are always good for a rash or 2. ?

7 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

No you can also be called a Celtic Princess, I think we both qualify. Did you,know psoriasis is called the Celtic Curse, it's so exclusive,to us that it is indicative of an Irish or Scottish ancestry. My 2 sons names: Kevin, Bryan , if I hadn't stopped making babies I might have a Declan, Conon, Padraic,or Sean. I wanted a dozen kids, because I was an only. Main reasons I stopped. 1 Late hubby didn't want them, he was the other kind of only, he liked it. 2 My pelvis had gotten so arthritic and narrowed to extent,Bryan barely made it out and any more would be C- Section 3. My then-OB threatened me with a Poro Section, do you know what that is? I forget if you were one of the ones who said they were a nurse? In case you weren't or aren't I shall educate you. A Poro section means C Section and then immediate hysterectomy. Lovely man wasn't he? You go in to have a baby and come out spayed. Bah dump dump dump.
I think,my desire to teach and educate is a throw-back to my rotten boy cousins dancing around, pointing at me and chanting "I know something you don't know!" So I set out to become very smart on a multitude of things so they couldn' t, heckle me anymore.
Oh often we are scarred or influenced by our pasts. Got to figure they,wouldn't be too thrilled with a cousin who sat and wrote poetry, would they?
Dermatology,is one speciality where you never,get too sick and you never get well, that's a reason they rub their hands together,when we show up, we are always good for a rash or 2. ?

Celtic Princess has a nice ring to it although Celtic Peasant would have been much more likely! I sure wish you lived closer. It would be great to hang out together!

For my boys, I stuck with apostles: Ian (John), Andrew and Thomas. My daughter is Theresa. So I've got the saints pretty well covered. I stopped having babies when they started coming in litters! Andrew and Thomas are identical twins and that was more than enough to scare me out of the baby-making business. Besides, I had them 2 weeks before I turned 37, so it was time for me to quit anyway. I was one of 5 and have 24 first cousins, so I always wanted a larger family. I didn't get married until I was 30, so I had to make quick work of it!

Yeah Greg Abbott probably put in an anti-littering law along with all of Texas other ones. Ron White of Blue Collar Comedy tour says other states are trying to abolish the death penalty, Texas has an Express Lane.
Thank you for the beautiful,compliment, I don't know when anyone else wanted to hang with me. I'm crying a little and smiling through my tears. Thank you,so so much!?

25 minutes ago, Frustr8 said:

Yeah Greg Abbott probably put in an anti-littering law along with all of Texas other ones. Ron White of Blue Collar Comedy tour says other states are trying to abolish the death penalty, Texas has an Express Lane.
Thank you for the beautiful,compliment, I don't know when anyone else wanted to hang with me. I'm crying a little and smiling through my tears. Thank you,so so much!?

Texas had the "Don't mess with Texas" slogan waaaaay before Greg Abbott.