pureed phase

hooray! hooray!

i made it past the full liquids phase.

you don't realize how lovely chewing is until it's gone.

today starts the pureed food stage which adds to the old diet...

- purees meats (i would rather die)

- scrambled and poached eggs

- cottage cheese

- mashed potatoes

- purred cooked veggies 

- hot cereals (like oatmeal)

these are the guideline set forth by my program...however,

my good friend Lauralee had the surgery a year and a half ago

at a program that included sliced deli meats during this phase.

i am going to go ahead and adopt that option.

if she survived (and thrived - she lost 171 pounds in her first year)

i am sure i'll be fine as well.

yeah, it's kind of a broken rule, but i'm down with it.

i ate one scrambled egg for lunch today and nothing has ever tasted better.

i got to chew something, people!  it was magic.

although i did finish the egg and THEN realized it was a bit too much

and felt uncomfortably full.

next time i will eat less than a full egg.

the funk that i experienced last week lifted and i am happy to

say i have been emotionally more and more able to adapt to

this new life without mourning the food.

i hope to continue on the upswing!

WEIGHT LOSS TO DATE: 38 LBS

*Photo © Danilo Alfaro