{"id":6751,"date":"2015-12-15T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:27","slug":"small-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6751","title":{"rendered":"Small bites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 15:<\/em> Even eating an apple has changed.<\/p>\n

I have a big mouth. I used to be able to bite into an apple and take out a quarter of it in one go.<\/p>\n

Now, I can’t get my mouth open wide enough to do anything but scrape the skin a little.<\/p>\n

My jaw doesn’t work properly.<\/p>\n

The surgery’s incision cut through the temporalis\u00a0muscle, which extends from the top of the forehead to control\u00a0the jaw.<\/p>\n

Other right-side troubles followed the surgery. In the first few days, I had trouble opening my right eye. The whole right side of my face felt slightly numb. The surgeons were unconcerned. “It’ll pass.”<\/p>\n

And it did. So I have to believe that this one will, too.<\/p>\n

Portion control has always been the hardest part of dieting for me, because I can consume a heaping spoonful of food in one mouthful. Well, I could before – now it’s hard to open wide enough for a broccoli flowerette.<\/p>\n

So maybe this is a good thing.<\/p>\n

I have always found it tough to keep my mouth shut when I have a strong opinion. No one’s called me “big mouth” to my face, but I probably should have shuttered it – more than a few times.<\/p>\n

The jaw constraint hasn’t kept me from talking Ann’s ear off, though. Once I get going on a subject, it’s hard to shut up. She’s never sure who is going to appear at the table: the weeping Lisa, the sleepy Lisa, or the talkative Lisa.<\/p>\n

We went to the playfield for a walk today. The weather was warm. I walked a mile.<\/p>\n

It’s not much; before the surgery I would do intervals running and walking for three miles.<\/p>\n

Small bites now.<\/p>\n

I’ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n

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Dec. 15: Even eating an apple has changed. I have a big mouth. I used to be able to bite into an apple and take out a quarter of it in one go. Now, I can’t get my mouth open wide enough to do anything but scrape the skin a little. My jaw doesn’t work … read more Small bites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[662,663,661,658,659,660],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-apple","tag-bite","tag-eating","tag-jaw","tag-muscle","tag-talking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}