Solid Food

so i went to surgeon today...i lost 9 lbs since the surgery. depending on the scale, i weigh 317, 324, or 321. i stepped on 3 different scales last week and got 3 different numbers so i just subtract 9 lbs from each and go with the lowest, of course. surgeon said i am to stop drinking protein shakes after friday and eat a steak dinner, too. i am to start eating solid foods, too. he asked if i've eaten solid food and i didn't lie. i didn't tell the whole truth, but i didn't lie. i told him i had cubed chicken this weekend but i didn't tell him i had grilled polenta with italian sausage at delores del rio after the kenny loggins concert with my hubby and our date, bert. i figure the diet instructions said whatever i could run through the food processor i could eat...if i chew enough, i act like a food processor so what the hell!

the other thing i didn't tell him was that i could eat bread. i ate bread friday, i ate bread saturday and i ate bread sunday. i'm glad, though, that i didn't say anything because as it turns out, i cannot eat bread. i ate a piece of harvest wheat bread today that damn near killed me. it just didn't want to go down so i've learned my lesson. but the same thing happened with a chicken breast i roasted so who knows?

i'm trying to use the new coping mechanism of guitar and it worked! i had grown bored with the same 3 songs over and over again and guitar teacher is taking a hiatus from texas so i just stopped practicing. tonight, though, something came over me and i taught myself patsy cline's version of your cheating heart!!! i'm so excited! i strummed and sang and figured out a strumming pattern! YAY!

so back to the band thing...it's not been a pleasant week. i've been plagued with all kinds of ick that has been painful and not something i wish to go into great detail about, but suffice it to say, i thought my old friend e.coli had returned. turns out, it's a very common side effect of post surgical lapband camp. it's a combination of the liquid vicodin, liquid diet and detox of the drugs and dyes used in the surgery. and it's over. it stopped saturday so i'm a happy girl. that's why i've been back on solid food a little earlier than planned...i even roasted a chicken tonight and even though i put the oven a wee bit too high, papa loved it because it was home made. tomorrow we'll have some kind of chicken breast...maybe orange honey glazed chicken breast with steamed broccoli...i think cooking awakened my domestic goddess again, too...i washed every dish in the house and cleaned out the fridge. let's see if we can't get the beast of a bedroom cleaned, too. wish me luck with that one!

have a good night!
pax,
m