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My morning routine, in the Before Times, was wake up, do 45 minutes of exercise so I could walk, go downstairs, weigh myself, take water pills and stomach coaters, assemble breakfast (overnight oats and soy milk), bring it upstairs, and eat it at the computer. Now I assemble breakfast in the bedroom, and again eat at the computer, though for two or three weeks I ate in the bedroom as well.
Because they give you blood thinners, you can't have water pills as well so I haven't had those in four weeks. Which I figure probably gained me a kilo or so, though ankles were slow to rebloat. And I've been indulging in all the forbidden stuff like chocolate and pb&jam sandwiches and alcohol, and not walking 45 minutes a day as in the past. I suspect from past experience that healing burns calories, but there's a limit to how many, and certainly that diet led to weight gain a year ago. So anyway, today I got downstairs before breakfast and weighed myself for the first time in four weeks. And have gained less than a kilo, so yay me.
It will still be a while before I revert to past habits because my other knee is whinging at me now, and I don't trust the operated knee to get me upstairs while holding stuff in my hands. Come to that, I don't trust it to get me downstairs in a step-step-step fashion either. When my back is good I'm pretty steady on my feet, but just now it's, well, not. Felt quie tottery when I went out to scrape snow from the steps and walkway this afternoon, just like walking pre-op. It may well take me three months to feel steady on that leg again.
Because they give you blood thinners, you can't have water pills as well so I haven't had those in four weeks. Which I figure probably gained me a kilo or so, though ankles were slow to rebloat. And I've been indulging in all the forbidden stuff like chocolate and pb&jam sandwiches and alcohol, and not walking 45 minutes a day as in the past. I suspect from past experience that healing burns calories, but there's a limit to how many, and certainly that diet led to weight gain a year ago. So anyway, today I got downstairs before breakfast and weighed myself for the first time in four weeks. And have gained less than a kilo, so yay me.
It will still be a while before I revert to past habits because my other knee is whinging at me now, and I don't trust the operated knee to get me upstairs while holding stuff in my hands. Come to that, I don't trust it to get me downstairs in a step-step-step fashion either. When my back is good I'm pretty steady on my feet, but just now it's, well, not. Felt quie tottery when I went out to scrape snow from the steps and walkway this afternoon, just like walking pre-op. It may well take me three months to feel steady on that leg again.
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