Oh my god I lost 8 pounds

I'm gonna admit right now that the first two days of my preop liquid diet were AWFUL. I cheated (hummus) and nearly yelled at my boyfriend for cooking his dinner in front of me. I resented the metallic ketone taste in the back of my throat. Finally on the morning of the third day I told myself to suck it up, resigned myself to just enjoying the SMELL of regular food, and plodded through another five protein shakes spaced three hours apart.

Then that evening I bought a scale, since my surgery is on Tuesday and I figured I'd want one and not really want to go GET one afterwards.

And I stepped on it.

And I have somehow lost EIGHT POUNDS since Dr. Kim's office last weighed me.

Day four of liquid diet, these goddamn shakes almost taste GOOD.