Weekly Update: Jan 6

Happy New Year!!!  And with the start of the New Year, I can say I am some what starting my journey to a new me.  This week was a lot of first.  I left my girlfriends home and finally went back to mine. 

With that being said, I went back to work on the 2nd. It was weird being back.  But as soon as I walked in, everyone could notice the change.  I had a little pain, because of the belt I was wearing, but that is because for 2 weeks I wore gym shorts. I am lucky that my job offers voluntary time off, so my first day back was just a few hours.  But I am back to working full time again.   

Being back at my place, I have to find the schedule to eat my food and drink my water.  With the surgery I have to stop drinking water about 15 to 30 minutes be eating, then take 30 minutes to eat and then wait 30 minutes after that to take a drink. This is so the new stomach can digest the food.  This is the hardest to so at work, because I have to watch the clock before I take lunch.  But I have done pretty well so far.  

Since the surgery, it has felt like starting my walking all over again.  For the first week I was lucky if I walked a quarter of a mile.  So for the past few weeks I have worked up to more and more steps.  So on Saturday, I broke the wall I was at and made my first mile since surgery.  I had my headphones on, and listening to music, when I head "one" come in, and I thought is was a phone call.  But then after that was the word "mile", it was like really, I just did that.  

Weekly weight loss:  4.2 lbs. lost

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