I’ve been a bit slack updating the page, but this is mainly because nothing is happening. Ok, that’s not quite true. What’s been happening is that I’ve just been plodding along doing the same thing, i.e. eating badly and not losing weight.
I don’t expect to be losing masses, a kilo a day or some such, but I really thought I’d have been dropping steadily but I’m not, or at least it doesn’t feel or look like I am! In four days I lost a half kilo, not exactly a momentous loss. Obviously, the type of foods I’ve been eating aren’t exactly high in fibre so I’m experiencing some constipation. A dose of laxative will help there but I can’t see it causing such a blockage that my weight loss should stall the way it has!
So, am I eating too much?? It’d be hard for me to eat more. I’ve been living mostly on shakes or, occasionally, hummus and Cruskits. I’ve been chewing small bites of chicken thighs as well now and then but, otherwise, that’s about it. One thing I *have* noticed is that I’m still not experiencing the ‘full’ feeling I should get when the small stomach pouch is ‘full’. The point of that physical feedback is to make sure I don’t overeat and make myself sick. However, I actually *have* done that several times, forcing me to attempt to throw up, not easy when your stomach is so small!!
Of course, what I’ve *not* been doing is moving about as much as I know I should. This is, in the main, because my knees have been painful since I fell over… twice. There is a vast improvement in the pain level but it’s still not easy for me to walk long distances. There’s little I can do to remedy the situation but I’m considering restarting my visits to the swimming pool and doing ‘resistance walking’ in their dedicated pool. It helped before when I was trying to lose weight in advance of the surgery so it should have a more pronounced effect now, three weeks after it. So, that’s the update for now. If anything happens I’ll write up a reminder as I’ve been doing, but unless I can get out and do *something*, I really can’t see there’s going to be much improvement in the coming days. ;(
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