Here we go...

It's been two weeks since I had surgery, 16 days since I've been to work, and a month since I used my teeth to chew anything. Well, this morning when I woke up all of that was true...

I still had surgery and haven't been to work, but I did eat real food about 9 this morning. It wasn't much, a half cup of egg substitute scrambled with two slices of non-fat cheese, but it was food nonetheless. I can only eat extremely soft proteins, primarily canned and blended, for the next week, but it is so much better than drinking everything as I have done the last month. I'm not getting one calorie more than I have had, but it is so satisfying to have something semi-solid to eat.

For those of you who would like to try not eating for a month, I can tell you that weight loss will occur if you do it right. In the first two weeks I lost 25 pounds. In the last two weeks I've lost 30 pounds. If you are math challenged, let me spell that out; in exactly 4 weeks I have lost 55 pounds. I don't have a stitch of clothes that fit anymore, in fact I am wearing an old web belt to hold my pants up. Get it? No holes, so I can tighten it as much as needs be.

I am very happy about all of this, don't get me wrong, but I have no idea what I'm going to wear when I have to go back to the office tomorrow. I don't want to buy anything, at least at this point, because I'll likely lose 50 more pounds in the next month. When you eat 3-4 ounces of food per meal, and that's all protein, you tend do do that.

So, triumphs mostly. Sure, the clothes thing is interesting, but it sure beats them not fitting the other way. Oh, let me throw this in... I have been fighting a killer case of vertigo for two days now. I called my surgeon and they said it was not a complication, rather likely an inner-ear thing. I've had this before, so I suspected as much, but I wanted to make sure it was nothing. That said, if you don't mind praying with me about this. There's not much medically that can be done, but I trust the Great Physician will heal as His will is fit.