Esouza

Man.. I was talking to a pre-op patient. So she was telling me how hard it's going to be casue she eats all the time and really likes food. You know the drill. So to show her that it is not a lost cause I share my typical day with her. Oh man... By the end I was crying. I've come to grips with it now but I haven't relived that experience in a while. Here is the typical day.

Ask the ex to make me toast while she is downstairs making her breakfast. 8 slices sometimes with peanut butter or cinnimon toast. She would then go to work. Now... I make my breakfast. Eggs and some type of meat or last nights leftovers. Then I would grab a box of cheezits or other cracker like wheat thins or triscut to take up stairs while telling myself this was my portion control for the day..(yeah a box of crackers). Then of course I would make lunch and dinner on top of that. It was usually some heavy stachy thing like meay and rice with some kind of sauce on top. oh geezz.. After talking with her I added up dome of the calories. All approx.

8 slices of toast with peanut butter = 1200
breakfast of 3 eggs and half a pound of whatever meats = 1000
Box of crackers = 1600
Lunch half a loaf of italian bread meat / cheese / mayo = 1400
Dinner (god knows what could have been a large pizza to whatever) = 1200
Big ass bowl of ice cream or a pint of ben and jerry's = 800

That was over 7000 calories a day. ugh.. Had to believe a person could do that to themselves. This was a typical day. Weekends would be worse because I decided to "treat" myself then. Sometimes I think I must have been suffering from temporary insanity.

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Dr. Callery
Open RNY
05/23/01
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