Keep On Truckin'

Yesterday wasn't bad, just a little tiny bit of heartburn last night but that was it, I was fine the rest of the day. I could tell that I'm getting a little weak from not getting enough protein, so I requested hamburger soup for dinner from DH, since I was drinking so slowly that I still couldn't have finished a whole shake if I tried. My schedule was a little screwed up so here is what I ate:

Breakfast 9AM - a few sips of protein shake (not even 1/4 cup if I had to guess)
Lunch 12PM - 2 or 3 small bites of chicken salad and 1/2 cup of carrot soup (and I was FULL!)
Snack - 1 SF Dulce de Leche pudding cup
Dinner 9PM or so - 3 or 4 bites of chicken salad about a half hour before dinner since I was starving by then; then hamburger soup (ground hamburger and lots of veggies), I didn't measure it but it was less than a cup. I figured it was a good transition into mushies.

Today I started full mushies and I'm a little nervous. I made 2 eggs (Egg Beaters) with a tiny bit of ham and cheese. It looked like a lot of food, maybe 1 cup when cooked (2 eggs of Egg Beaters is 1/2 cup so I didn't expect it to expand so much). I ate all of it with basically no problems, and that makes me scared because of how little soup I could eat just yesterday. I'm also having fewer problems with liquids, even just yesterday I had to take small sips and wait between each sip. Now I find myself taking larger drinks and it's fine. I REALLY want this restriction, I'll be devastated if it doesn't last. Of course I'll still watch my portions, but I really got my hopes up this time with how nice my liquid phase was. And this was the first time that I wasn't rushing rushing to get to mushies, sure, I wanted to eat everything I couldn't have, but I wasn't starving for food, I was doing just fine on liquids.

I think I'm going to weigh myself before I take a shower in a bit here, even though I have food and water in my stomach, I should have lost -something- considering how few calories I took in the last 3 days.

Tomorrow should be interesting, I have two Christmas dinners I'm going to. Thankfully the food isn't great at either family's house (I know it sounds bad, but that means I won't be tempted to go overboard). I'm also making 1 dozen cookies right now because 1) my husband wanted to bake for Christmas, and 2) these are caramel-filled chocolate chip pre-formed cookies that we found in the store, the LAST package, so we wanted to try them. And I'll have a cookie when they're ready, but I have no plans to sit down and eat half of them today like I would have in the past.