Pre-Op Diet Day 16

SW⟫ 207.7 | CW⟫ 163.5 |

Pre-op Diet⟫ Day 16

Surgery Countdown⟫ 12 days

Well I guess grouchy best describes how I’m feeling this morning. I didn’t have an extremely late night – went to sleep just before 2 am – but we had to be awake this morning as the electrician was coming round to have a look at the oven and see if it’s fixable. Unfortunately, it appears not so we all clubbed together and I’ve ordered a new cooker which is due for delivery and fitting on Wednesday.

I’ve had a slimfast shake this morning and my stomach feels a little fluttery so I’ll keep an eye on that. The plan for today is shower and do my hair (very short braids/twists), maybe some reading and if we get the chance, watch more of Cross.

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Well, Gidget has gone off to work and Stripes and I are settling in for some prime TV before I crash as I am exhausted.

Had a shower, washed my hair, and proceeded to put in small, short braids. I looked like a budget white haired Coolio so took them out. I guess I’m going to have to have a proper think about what I want to do. I don’t want long hair – it gets too hot, maintenance, etc – but I’m not sure my hair is long enough to be braided into cornrows. Stripes says she’s happy to give it a go tomorrow/Sunday, so I guess we’ll see.

Struggled a bit coming back from the bathroom – both of my legs were just pins and needles, I couldn’t properly feel my feet and both of the girls had to help me to get back to my bed. I also have a weird stomach which I think might be the immodium. And yes, I needed it to do it’s thing when I was suffering from the diarrhoea but the thought that it might be swinging in the other direction doesn’t exactly fill me with joy.

Just sipping at my last slimfast shake – the cafe latte – and surprisingly I would say it’s my favourite. I used to be a BIG coffee drinker. I had a coffee machine in my office and would drink literally 1 pint mugs of the stuff. Then when I did keto a few years back, I drank bullet coffee which was coffee, butter, cream and sweetner. That stuff would keep me going for hours and tasted absolutely fabulous! But I gave up caffeine in that form, so no more coffee for me – it’s all peppermint and roobios tea now! I find the vanilla tastes a bit like banana(?), the raspberry and white chocolate and the chocolate flavour are just incredibly bland and don’t really taste of anything.

I was considering doing a huge slimfast order but decided to wait until after surgery as apparently your tastes can change dramatically and I hate the thought of the waste. I still have flippin’ masses of the Exante and Keediet shakes in the kitchen that I have no idea if I’m going to use them or not. It’s frustrating but there’s nothing I can do about it.

We didn’t watch any more Cross – I watched an old favourite movie of mine, The Da Vinci Code, which I love for the history and the theories, so that was a pleasant afternoon. However, I really am exhausted so I think I’m going to fill my Mighty with my favourite mixture, vape a little and see if I crash out early.

Less than a fortnight to the surgery now – kinda scary to think about. Found someone on YouTube that had the VSG who’s done a few videos about it. She’s called CristanFaith. She’s only about 21, 22, and it was a year ago and it looks like she lost around 100lbs, but I thought it might be good to see some experiences. I might also look and see if I can find someone around my age going through it, just to see if it will help me with stuff. Chatted with J and she said not to stock up too much on anything because I have no idea what I’ll like afterwards. Pleased as my Superdrug order arrived so now I have 180 daily vitamins so I should be okay for a little while!

Another day closer and doing okay.