Day Fourteen - Preparation and Planning

I am exactly two weeks post op now and feeling really good.  Today I went out and bought some ground chicken and sole fillets.  I plan on making some mini ground chicken meatballs, cooking them, weighing them and prepackaging them so that I can just grab them out already weighed and eat them when that time comes (14 days).  Gonna do the same with the fish.  Bake it, weigh it and package it so it is easy to just take out at supper time.  Not excited about being able to eat in two weeks eh!  I think that planning and preparing for this will make it so much easier not to go outside of what I am supposed to be eating.  The eating portion of this journey is just part of the big picture, can't wait to add exercise to this journey again.  Last night Geoff and I, the lovely Miss "A" went out to Yuk Yuk's amateur night.  The was no parking around King St. so we parked a block away in a parking garage came down to street level through the old farmer's market mall and walked the block to Yuk Yuk's.  It felt good and for once I wasn't totally out of breath.  There was 8 comedians on last night, some were good, some were ok and some were just bad.  I am not sure why they think that vulgarity is funny.  It's just too much at times.  Anyways all in all it was a good show and we had lots of laughs.  Which I think was really good for our dear friend Miss "A" as she was definitely not having a good day, nothing seemed to be going in her direction at all.  When the show ended we walked Miss "A" down the block and around the corner to her car then we walked the block and a half back to the mall entrance to find it was all locked up.  Now we walked the 3 more blocks around the mall to the parking garage entrance and up 2 flights of stairs and then I said "Wait" I need to take an elevator up the rest of the way.  We found the elevator and took it the next two levels.  This time I was a little winded but I haven't done any walking for over a month which is one reason I can't wait to get back on the tread mill. I think I will need to watch out for the energy level of things when I head back to the gym....keeping hydrated might be an issue but I have about 12 days to figure that out.  I see the surgeon on May 9 and will ask someone at the bariatric clinic what they know or think about it.  Need to keep on preparting and planning....as it is a key to the success in this journey I am on.  Might try to go for another walk this weekend.  Just small ones at first but then maybe build up some stamina for going back to the gym.
Have a great weekend everyone.
Steph