Finally awake

Yesterday began my official time that I can move away from protein drinks and yogurt and start having some "real" food, albeit pureed.  So I made the couple of recipes that they offered in the guideline book: deviled eggs, tuna salad, and chicken supreme.  They are all pretty good.  I started just eating a spoonful or two, but then I found I wanted to eat too often, so yesterday I tried having bigger portions and I did okay.  I still had one protein drink.  Yesterday, I took my iron with eggs instead of dairy, and it felt pretty good.  Dairy can block iron absorption (and vitamin C can help absorption as well).  As of yesterday, my abdomen felt better, and I stayed awake all day, and had enough energy to do a mile on the treadmill AND go to water aerobics last night.  AND in the past two days I lost 1.8 pounds.  So now I am going to work on other blended recipes.  We went out two nights ago and got a set similar to the magic bullet, but it has larger cups and it also has a bigger blender.  Our blender doesn't work that great, so hopefully this one will work out.