Thanks so much for the responses and the encouraging words! I'm on day 10 of my 14 day pre op diet and I had decide I was going to have a salad with chicken in it (I did that once before a few days ago)... I am losing weight though. But coming here reading actually encouraged me not to have the salad -body - mind. lol.. glad to know there's plenty of guys doing it too.. as a guy i was about to worry that maybe it's not good for me .. but then again I'm worrying about EVERYTHING related to this right now lol.. my biggest worry - "I hope I don't have a leaky staple line... I didn't have much gray hair prior, but I'm sure I'm growing some now ha ha ha