After weight loss surgery, you face four weeks of nothing but liquids. Fortunately, this includes a certain amount of yogurt which has become the highpoint of the day. One woman told me that the gummy vitamin C was her treat … this struck me as too sad to contemplate on my own so I thought I’d pass her gloom on to you.
Random thoughts flit through my brain:
• What are my teeth doing during this four weeks? Enjoying the vacation from chewing or fretting about unemployment?
• Should I really join a support group as the surgeon suggests? I mean they do things like exchange recipes. This week put your protein powder in the diet Snapple instead of diet Splash! Pretend it’s a milkshake!
• Am I antisocial because I’m fat or fat because I’m antisocial?
Some of you have sent me helpful hits; Sundry gave me a recipe for a shake involving Banana and Peanut Butter and Spinach that will be a lifesaver in phase two, which I refer to as the mushy weeks. But one question … what is coconut water all about? I know I can google it, but think of the work you’re saving me. And shoving my work onto the backs of others is part of what made me fat to begin with.
