Well, I did it. I bit the bullet and on February 4, 2026 I got the gastric sleeve surgery. I knew it was coming so I kinda of went hog wild and did a “Goodbye Tour” before my surgery. I would say if I had to do it over again, I probably wouldn’t have went so hard because I gained a bit of weight before the surgery – basically all i’d lost the previous year. Go me!

But really, the surgery itself was fine. I spent the night in the hospital and went home the next day. Had a few weeks off and have progressed from liquids to pureed food to more solid food now, and the only real complication I’ve had is that one of my surgical sites had trouble healing and got a little infected. Antibiotics cleaned that right up though!

It’s about a month and a half, and I’ve lost around 30 pounds. The weight had stalled a bit even though I’m keeping the calories low and moving my body. Just the last week or so the scale started moving again, so I’m keeping it moving and trusting the process.

Some of my favorite things during this time has been Premier peanut butter chocolate protein shakes (and making that into protein pudding fluff), hummus with hot honey, cream of rice (holy crap it’s good) thinned out with protein shake, and Progresso high protein soups blended in my Ninja. I’m starting to develop more bariatric friendly recipes that the whole family can enjoy, so be looking for those in the future.

I know it’s been a while since I blogged, but I’m finally feeling up to it again so there’ll be more here.