Week 4 is now over, now onto week 5!  I’ve been a bit more adventurous in week 4 than I have been in previous weeks.  I’ve allowed myself a greater variety of foods, both texturally and content wise.  I even went out to dinner one night.  My choice when I dined out was to go with the soup.  I know how my body handles pureed soups very well at this point, so it was a safe choice.

As I progress through the mushy/pureed stage of post-op life, I am allowed to add a bit more texture back each week, with the caveat that I must chew, chew, chew.  This weeks test I think will be crab.  I am allowed white fish, crab, shrimp, tuna, and chicken while on the mushy pureed phase of the recovery diet.  I did well on gently pureed chicken salad last week.  While the chicken salad wasn’t chunky, it wasn’t smooth either, so it gave me a chance to practice my chewing.

This weekend we decided to spend Sunday at the Maryland Renaissance Festival.  The weather was beautiful and I didn’t want to be stuck inside all day.  I packed protein powder knowing that I could have that mixed with water.  What I didn’t expect was how tempting all of the different foods would be.  It was entirely head hunger, because my body certainly doesn’t need fried oreos, cheesecake on a stick, steak on a stake, etc.  I did have a couple of bites of things because I was feeling a bit light headed.  I now know to better prepare for these sorts of events.  I was SO blasted tired when I got home from 5 hours of walking around.  It was a good reminder that I’m only four weeks out and still healing!

Onto the Weigh In Portion…

• Pre-Op 2 Week Liquid’ish Diet -12.8 lbs
• Week 1 Post Op -8.6
• Week 2 Post Op -6.2
• Week 3 Post Op -2.2
• Week 4 Post Op -3.8
• Total: -33.6

I can not believe how fast time is flying by.  I’m now into week 5 of my post op life!