Today I graduated to soft foods. I can’t begin to describe how excited I was for today to get here. Today meant that I got to resume my vitamin regimen, which I had missed for the past 3 weeks while on full liquids–before surgery, I took a multivitamin, B12, vitamin D and calcium supplement every day without fail. So to go without them for 3 weeks was tough because it threw me out of my routine, plus I had really low energy levels, I think because I wasn’t taking my usual battery of supplements. Thankfully, post-op, they’re all the same ones just in a different form so getting back to my old habits vitamin-wise hasn’t been difficult.
But the most important part of today is that. I. Graduated. To. Soft. FOOD!
For the past two weeks, I have wanted to bite into food so badly I could taste it. That first week after surgery, I couldn’t even think about eating–I was so focused on drinking and avoiding dehydration that food was the last thing on my mind. But the more protein drinks I had to drink, and the sweeter they seemed to become, I could hardly wait until I was cleared to have soft foods.
So what did I choose as my first soft foods?
La Guerra de La Gorda 