13 lbs. lost...

In 5 days - isn't that amazing? By drinking my food and walking 4x a day! I know, I know, it's water weight, but I feel great! My incisions hurt a lot last night while I tried to sleep. A couple of the incisions seemed to have drained a tiny bit, but I put big huge bandages over them yesterday. The full protection helped seal everything up really well.

Today, my goal is to drink all the leftover food that I have made - or at least make a dent in it. I must admit that I do not love protein powder in my food. I made a great bowl of cream of wheat - okay, no one think c-o-w is great - but I flavored the milk with SF strawberry preserves. I strained it and sweetened it with splenda - it was much better. But the nutritionist suggests adding protein powder to it - that does not excite me at all.

I do struggle with emotional eating due to boredom but with this plan - I am certainly not bored! We'll see how that changes in the next few weeks...

I am inspired this morning by a story on the Today Show with Hoda Kotb/Kathie Lee Gifford about a woman who weighed 400 lbs. and lost 262 lbs. She weighs 138 now. That is AMAZING! She was so gracious and sweet and did it without surgeries or pills. I am inspired.