Here We Go...

woo! congratulations! Keep us updated on how you're doing with your liquid diet before going into surgery. All will be fine and all will go well, no worries

Yaah! You can do this....

Thanks guys. I'm using the stuff you can mix with water or skim or 1% milk, but I forgot to buy 1% yesterday, so my first one this morning was with water and ice. Wasn't bad, but I went and bought a gallon after breakfast. I have a lot of things t do these next two weeks so I don't want to short myself. The way he has the diet prescribed is 880 calories a day using milk, so I'll be losing weight anyway. I did find out that a 'rounded' scoop for me is WAY over 35 grams, so I'll be using a digital scale. I do not wish to inadvertently cheat. SO glad they didn't say "no coffee." (I drink it black.) Thinking coffee subbed for water with the chocolate would be good...

On Day 5 of liquid diet, doing OK. Staying busy definitely helps. I misread the instructions and they say water or SKIM milk, so I inadvertently cheated a little days 1 and 2 and breakfast on day 3, but am using skim now. Oops...

Day 3 was the worst so far, but I've already lost 7 pounds! Coupled with my dieting since February, I have not been this light for probably 17 years!

Pre-admission was 7/12, everything went just fine. Just counting the hours now...