Needless to say, my doc and my dietician were pretty pleased with my progress. SO that means that my script got renewed! Yay! I really feel a difference in my energy and appetite on this drug.
It's weird, but I actually feel more focused and mentally alert at work than I have before, and my hunger/appetite has definitely been suppressed.
The only downside is that I have had some issues with insomnia. I have some Super Snooze with Melatonin coming from www.puritan.com along with some chai tea bags to try and some probiotics.
At the support group this past Tuesday night, Dr. G talked about a conference he recently attended where a speaker talked about a study at Stanford. The study took fecal matter from lean folks and some from not-lean folks and studied the bacteria in each. Apparently the lean poop had a different composition of bacteria than the "fat" poop and when the lean poop was transplanted into a "fat" rat or some animal I forget, the animal lost weight at a higher rate. Who knew they did fecal transplants, but apparently they are common for humans with C-Dif. Google that!
Anyways, the convo went to probiotics and how there was a study group of users and a group of folks that got placebos and those that were on probiotics lost a higher percentage of weight than those that took the placebos. Soooooo I ordered some on puritan.com last night as well. Won't hurt!
At today's appointment I also got back the results of my first bariatric panel (blood work). My vitamin D was 27 and normal range is 30-100. Soooo now I have to take an additional supplement and be retested 6 months. Get rid of high blood pressure pill, add in a Vit D supplement. I hate taking pills on a schedule but that's what I signed up for when I got surgery.
Pics below are of my weight chart from the bariatric clinic -- showing my progress! I know it's weird, but it is something I wanted to document: my legs. I had to dress up at work today and wore a dress I purchased probably a year ago -- size 10. It just barely fit and honestly I think 10 more pounds and it'd be perfect; however, like I said, I had to dress up, so that was the best I could do. And I thought my legs looked the skinniest I can ever remember, so I had to take a picture. That is all!
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