Down for the count!

My child has always been consistently unwilling to go to sleep. Sometimes it is easier than others. Many times I have to lay down with him to get him to go to sleep otherwise he will scream in his crib for over an hour until he passes out. I can usually handle either option, but the recent surgery has really made it difficult to lay with him to get him to go to sleep. I am almost always hot, and as a result I sleep in a minimal amount of clothing. With my son, I now have to sleep with a shirt on at all times so that he won't pick at my wounds, scratch my belly or (when I had them) pull at bandages. Well, he's in the crib now, and isn't making too much of a fuss. So, we'll see.

On a side note, I'm happy to say - There are only what, 4 days left of this phase of the diet? And only three weeks after that, I get to get onto "easy" foods that are soft and easy to chew, such as broccoli (steamed), carrots (steamed), soft fruits and the similar. Next Tuesday I go in for a bodypod test. They are basically going to measure my volume and weight and all that jazz and get a pretty accurate test of my fat percentage. They said to wear clothes that is as form fitting as possible. Well - honestly, I don't know that I have anything like that anymore. Sure, maybe at my parents house in a box, but even stuff that I couldn't wear before is fitting me rather loosely - especially around the thighs. I weigh 362 - which means that since the 29th of July I have gone down 40 lbs according to my scale. It also means that since coming home on the 20th I have lost 20 lbs. The doctor said that most people lose 60 lbs in the first 3 months, but he thinks I might lose up to 80. I am not even exercising and I'm dropping weight really fast. It doesn't seem to be muscle, but at the same time, my body is losing weight, so it isn't having to support as much. I just don't want it to go too fast, and I guess that is why I'm required to have so much protein.

My exercise program starts next Wednesday (just in time for my new diet) and so hopefully I'll be able to lose even more weight. I am still consuming very little in a given day (in terms of calories) so I would imagine once I add exercise either I will go into starvation mode or I will drop weight like there is no tomorrow.

I was also thinking about it, I haven't been under 300 lbs since high school (graduated in May 2000, I was over 300 lbs as a junior in HS). My wife has not known me under about 380-390 (we've been together since May of 2006). Once i get below 300 lbs I will, for the first time, actually be the thinnest I have been in over a decade. It seems like just yesterday I was just a chubby kid who loved all-you-can eat and was told "you must finish what you take, don't take it if you can't eat it". And it seems like last week I was running around the soccer field, playing baseball and outrunning my younger brother from yellow jackets.

At any rate, he's out (or at least not crying anymore). So I'm going to go find something to do to occupy my hour or so I'm going to get to myself. And no, I'm not going to clean - so tough cookies wife :p

Edit: Apparently he's just playing with his crib mirror. Either way, he'll go to sleep eventually, and he's not screaming, so that is good.

Yesterday's weight: 362
Current weight: 362
Weight Lost: 0 lbs
Total Weight Lost: 20 lbs