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Biggest tip, take heed to what your dietitian tell you. Hence, chew 25-30 times, avoid Water 30 min before and after eating, take Vitamins you will be taking after surgery, cut out over eating. Utilize this time to train yourself mentally. When your training wheels are taken off (after surgery) you have to be prepared. Good luck!

Change your perspective. I'm one week post op today. You should be creative with your liquids. For example, I was craving nachos. I took some nacho cheese added a lil milk to thin it out. Got two tortilla chips and grated in my blender to a cheap of wheat/oatmeal/grits consistency and added it (It was deelish! Also, took some Wendy's chilli, blended it till all chucks of tomato and meat were blended. Same thing with Applebee's artichoke dip I added milk and ate like Soup. Campbell's has a cheeseburger chunk soup, I'm saving it as a head hunger emergency..lol. Whatever you eat, just blend with milk, broth, Water, etc. good luck....

I was told 64 oz minimum all liquids (including protein shakes) can be included. No more than 4 oz per 30 minutes. I recommend hot tea, I goes down smoother. Good luck!

Bcn's approval letter takes a lil time for you to get it. I recommend calling the dr office, my coordinator confirmed within 2 days because she was able to look in their database to see if I was approved.

Don't worry about the shots. I was poked twice a day. Request it in your stomach while the nurse spread your skin and it will hurt much less!

Really?!? Is it that serious, a picture?? Come on.....! To the one who started this post I'm sure you don't want people to candy coat their response. If I threw it out there I would expect someone to keep it 100% with no chaser. I'm 3 days out and honestly cheated everyday of my preopt. Me eating prior was a life time of bad decisions. Moving forward I'm accepting accountability and refuse to be a "failed statistic". Good luck to you!

I'm 3days, my surgeon cleared day 4-14 as a liquid strained diet. I can do soups in addition to thin oatmeal, pudding, jello, or grits. Also as long as I have the ability to sip through a straw he will allow it.

Thanks guys! Pre opt diet helped me drop a few pounds pre op.

Hi Annie, I honestly feel like crap! Lol...the gas is no joke. I know this is the hard part. =)

I was sleeved yesterday! I got called in two hours earlier due to a cancellation and went in solo due to my hubby being at work. I have super small veins, so imagine what 12 hrs prior to surgery with no liquids will do. I got poked a total of 6 times in attempts to insert an IV by a team of 5 different people. Surgery was quick, however I woke up whimpering like a dog...lol. The IV they managed to put in was small and limited my pain meds. Luckily for me they managed to give me liquid pain meds too. I slept all night like a baby and didn't have the strength to walk or eat. Today is a new day, with the help of nausea meds I was able to keep food down and walk the halls and walk in place in front of the tv in my room. Cheers to my start of a healthy life!

I'm scheduled for tomorrow =)

I'm tomorrow too! Good luck to u

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Love your blog, tomorrow is my big day!

I found out through insurance hurdles I had sleep apnea. I was not required to be compliant 2 wks before receiving a surgery date. I literally got approved, scheduled, and received cpap within the same week. Started my process in June 13, getting sleeved tomorrow! However I am required to follow up with the sleep study doctor within 90 days of my initial test. My insurance require me to use my cpap consecutively 4 hrs for 2 wks before they pay for it. They are renting the cpap from a dme company on my behalf ( with a monitoring device to ensure it's being used).

I'm going in this Fri and will be released Sunday morning pending my dr's approval.

I have 3 kids. I would recommend you drink your Protein before you prepare their meals. Hopefully you wont be tempted.

Sorry to hear your in pain. I'm getting sleeved on Friday. Others recommended a heating pad for soreness. You probably should create a time schedule or alarm to assure you get your liquids in.

Good luck to you. I'm 3/14....kinda surreal after waiting so long! Change your perspective, 10 yrs from now if you don't go thru with the surgery how would your quality of life be? Just weigh your pros and cons. Good luck!

Amen! What was your starting weight and day if surgery??

You look great! Keep up the good work =)

I can definitely see the change. Congrats on your success!

Girl you better get it!! LOL...I'm scheduled on Friday and current weight is 233. You are an inspiration. =)

Hi Kim, I'm 3/14 and I honestly cheated 2/7 days of my preop diet. Beating myself up of course. However I'm morphing my mindset to be accountable. I would hate to be considered a statistic that failed after 20k+ was invested in attempt to make me healthy. I woke out of my sleep at 4 am to go shopping and stock my kitchen with food I'm suppose to eat. Today is a new day, in retrospect if I try to justify cheating I'm only hindering my success. Good luck to you!

My husband brought pizza, bread sticks, and chicken for dinner last night! The aroma drove me nuts. To be honest I did have one bite of pizza. It's very hard! My surgery is Friday, if i was single and kid free it would be so easy by not allowing the food in my house. I'm learning to accept accountability. Today is a new day!! =)