Withdrawl??? A challenging day- Advice?

[Guest guest]

Hello Again from Tijuana.

Hope you are all well! It has been one week since my banding and things

have been going well. This is what I am doing:

Lots of water and fluids, soups like Clam Chowder, or Chicken Noodle,

through a blender with chicken broth to thin it down.

I am trying to walk some everyday. I am down 10lbs the first week.

However, I am starting to really want to cheat and EAT something

thats not MUSH!! Today I had a real challenge, we had to cross the border

to meet a group of ladies who had made quilts for an orphanage here

in TJ, we met them and things went well. Then they insisted that we all go

together to lunch at CARL'S JR of all places. Actually, I have never eaten

there

but I have seen it, and I have eaten a long time ago at a Hardees which is

similar. Anyway, there was absolutely NOTHING I could have, and I couldn't

tell them

about the surgery. So I LIED and said I had eaten already, and I had half

of a milkshake while they ate. It was literally the only thing on the menu

that would work for me.

Tomorrow is going to be even worse, my husbands boss has insited that we

come over for dinner because they are making ino food. As far as

they know I have been

" sick with stomach problems " lately, which is not uncommon to many forigners

living in Mexico, but I don't know how I am going to make it through

tomorrow, saturday and Sunday without actually eating something that someone

is offering me. Saturday all the churches here go to the beach for

cookouts, and Sunday all the men at church are having breakfast for everyone

for Easter. Right now, my husband was hungry so he went out alone to get

some tacos and I REALLY wish I could have one!! He has been very supportive

along the way, and neither of us want to tell people around us about the

surgery last week, it just would be hard for them to understand, and its a

private issue for us. So I need some advice... How did you get through the

first two weeks? Espicially if you did it without others around you knowing

you did. I know my stomach couldn't handel it, but I could so go for a big

piece of Pepperoni Pizza right now, but instead I am having a little bit of

pudding.

Help!

Barbarita

in Tijuana

DOB 3-14-08

240/224/150

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Barbarita Lee

Missionary with Christian Reformed World Missions

www.missionarylee.blogspot.com