I'm on a high

Friday the 13th's don't bring me bad luck. Usually, just the opposite. Maybe it is one more way to go against the crowd, who knows.

I am still incredibly high on the adrenaline and stress of finishing the thesis. Yes, I finished it. My original thought, abstract, bibliography, everything. I finished Wednesday and am still reeling from the endorphins. I still have left whatever corrections and comments my chair and reader provide me, but it is easier to fix something than to create it from scratch. I also have to finish up a class and its deliverables. But I am oh, 93% there, if not more.

I got a fill yesterday as well. This fill felt good. It was satisfying and I did not feel hungry. I have gone almost two full days with just liquids. I am starting to feel like I need regular food, but not too bad. Maybe this was what I needed to push me off my plateau, because I checked the scale and seem to have lost 5-6 pounds, just from a day ago. Of course, this gave me another high! I think I am a but bloated from my upcoming monthly cycle, and this can affect banding as well. When a woman bloats, so does their stomach. It is not uncommon for a woman a week before she is due to not be able to get down a lot of food. This is because the stomach also bloats, causing more restriction against the band. The solution to his is just to stay on liquids for the 2 days of bloating, then the stomach will go back to normal. If I am bloated, like I believe, then in a few days I will notice the band will be looser. So I will need another adjustment. Yesterday I got .4 ccs for a total of 4.2 ccs (I think).

N has been progressing well with the potty training at daycare. She now asks to go to the potty. She graduated today to pull-ups so we expect her to be trained within a month. But she still will not go at home. I will be working on her this weekend.

I found this website and I will be trying some products from here: bariatriceating.com. It seems to be a supportive website for those having undergone weight loss surgery.

I felt so good I even went shopping for clothes. Alas, everything I tried just didn't fit right. I did buy underwear, because, well, I wanted to buy something and they were on sale, and most importantly, I felt even better buying a much smaller size panty than my clothes size. Anything to prolong this high!