I am now tipping the scales at a lean mean 192, making my total loss around 35 or 36 pounds. My final tuxedo fitting is in four days...the 10th. Not a ton more I can do in the next four days other than just keep doing what I'm doing and hope that I drop another pound.
It has all been very encouraging from people that know and love me that say I look skinny and I look healthy and I look great etc. The support and understanding of my friends, fiancé, and family has been outrageous and awesome. I really thought that me being a vegan would interfere a lot more with my normal life but it turns out that everyone is so happy for me and everyone sees the results and sees how much better I feel and how much healthier I look that they don't really ever make any negative comments. I guess the only hard thing is that it's a little hard to go out and meet with the guys since we usually want to go grab a couple of drinks but not many bars have a vegan friendly menu. Still I've made it work and it's all good!
I had to get my wisdom teeth out on Wednesday. I'm not going to say that it was an enjoyable experience but it wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined. However one of the coolest things happened to me while I was there about to get my surgery. The nurse was talking about how great it would be that I could eat ice cream and yogurt and soft foods like chicken noodle soup... she was very sweet but I laughed and said "that's funny because I can't eat any of those since I'm a vegan..."
Then to my surprise she looked at me and said you don't say your surgeon is a vegan... that's right Dr. Seagraves has been a be in for five or six months now. So Dr. Seagraves comes in the room and we start talking for a short bit. He was saying that he was proud of me for taking an active interest in my health and he asked me what made me change to the vegan lifestyle. I said you going to think I'm crazy but it was actually a documentary... and he smiled and pointed at me and said "Forks over knives?" we continued to laugh and smile when I realized that what he was saying was that FOK is what convinced him to become a vegan is well. Of all the surgeons in my entire city-- of all the operating times that I could have chosen--I happen to get a converted Forks over Knives vegan surgeon!!! It made my entire week.
My lovely fiancé's been very supportive of me this whole week and taking care of me when all I could do is sit around and lay and be in pain. Fortunately my pain was very minimal and my swelling was almost nonexistent. The hardest thing has been getting enough fiber, sleep, and not smoking cigarettes. Compared all of those things the toll this has had on my body is pretty minimal. I'm back to work tomorrow. and slowly working my strength up to eating more solid foods. Luckily since I've been on this vegan diet the food that I ate during my wisdom teeth days was not odd to me at all; things like smoothies, coconut milk, lots of fruit, hummus, and really soft things like oatmeal have slowly been seen in my diet much more often anyway. I feel bad for those that eat diets primarily of meat, bread, and starches because they would be miserable this entire time. I know that this diet came to my life at the perfect time.
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