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I had a piece of cheese today. It was sitting on the counter because my mom had made my kids dinner(which is fantastic) but didn't put away the food. It was the best piece of cheese I've ever had.
It's really hard to adhere to this diet when there is food around!!

@@OutsideMatchInside
Thank you for your thoughtful reply - I DO have kids so I won't be alone and will have to prepare dinner and lunches and wish I had someone else to take that on while I get into my new habits. I do have a dog and he is the love of my life right now! I couldn't get by without him. And my mom is here for the surgery, so I'm really not alone alone, just single alone, which like you pointed out, is different.
I live right around the corner from a great Y that has a new pool and I plan to start Water aerobics ASAP (and the nice thing about that is usually it is older, less judgmental ladies!).
I guess I need to just hunker down and do what I need to do and stop feeling sorry for myself!

@@FocusOnMeNow
Wow. What an empowering response! I love what you are saying and it so true - it's got to be about me first. And I agree with you (and your mom!) that most likely it was the relationship that was the problem. I'm so quick to blame myself.
I can't tell you how much better I felt after reading you reply and I went to sleep singing Whitney! Learning to love yourself is the greatest love all. Amen and thank you.

I started 6 days ago and was feeling really woozy and low energy the first 3 days. I think I was eating 1/4 of the calories I usually eat so my body was in total shock.
Today is my 6th day and I actually have more energy that I have in years!!
Stick with it - you can do it!!

Hello wonderful community! Just a few successes from today I wanted to share.
This afternoon I took my daughter and her friends out for pizza. I ordered a plain salad (Ok'd by doc to do veggies only with lemon on such occasions...) and that's all I ate, even with the amazing looking pie right in front of me.
Tonight, after back to school night, I went out for drinks with some friends . They all had 2 beers each and I had 2 unsweetened ice teas.
This is my 6th day on the pre-op diet and I think I can do this! (8 more days to go....)
How are others doing with temptations??

Hello wonderful community! Just a few successes from today I wanted to share.
This afternoon I took my daughter and her friends out for pizza. I ordered a plain salad (Ok'd by doc to do veggies only with lemon on such occasions...) and that's all I ate, even with the amazing looking pie right in front of me.
Tonight, after back to school night, I went out for drinks with some friends . They all had 2 beers each and I had 2 unsweetened ice teas.
This is my 6th day on the pre-op diet and I think I can do this! (8 more days to go....)
How are others doing with temptations??

I am Sept 17th. I start the liquid diet tomorrow and I'm freaking out - it just seems impossible. I will miss the food!

Thanks for the support - I guess I am not a very independent person - or at least I haven't been for the last 18 years of my life! This seems like very scary decision and process to do alone.
I do need to join some face to face support groups - and of course use this amazing site as a resource.
Thanks!

@@OutsideMatchInside
Thank you for your thoughtful reply - I DO have kids so I won't be alone and will have to prepare dinner and lunches and wish I had someone else to take that on while I get into my new habits. I do have a dog and he is the love of my life right now! I couldn't get by without him. And my mom is here for the surgery, so I'm really not alone alone, just single alone, which like you pointed out, is different.
I live right around the corner from a great Y that has a new pool and I plan to start Water aerobics ASAP (and the nice thing about that is usually it is older, less judgmental ladies!).
I guess I need to just hunker down and do what I need to do and stop feeling sorry for myself!

@@OutsideMatchInside
Thank you for your thoughtful reply - I DO have kids so I won't be alone and will have to prepare dinner and lunches and wish I had someone else to take that on while I get into my new habits. I do have a dog and he is the love of my life right now! I couldn't get by without him. And my mom is here for the surgery, so I'm really not alone alone, just single alone, which like you pointed out, is different.
I live right around the corner from a great Y that has a new pool and I plan to start Water aerobics ASAP (and the nice thing about that is usually it is older, less judgmental ladies!).
I guess I need to just hunker down and do what I need to do and stop feeling sorry for myself!

Folly I agree with you. I think it's a slippery slope to give so much praise to people's after pictures. Of course they have worked so hard and we want to applaud them!! But it seems like it has this underlying message that before you didn't you look great. And when someone does gain some or all the weight back- then what? Is the message they do not look great?
We are all beautiful in every shape and size. It's how we feel inside that really matters. But I know - that is easier said than done.

Folly I agree with you. I think it's a slippery slope to give so much praise to people's after pictures. Of course they have worked so hard and we want to applaud them!! But it seems like it has this underlying message that before you didn't you look great. And when someone does gain some or all the weight back- then what? Is the message they do not look great?
We are all beautiful in every shape and size. It's how we feel inside that really matters. But I know - that is easier said than done.

Thank you all!
I realize that at the bottom of all this, I'm scared. Scared of what will be there when the food isn't- having to feel the feelings.
Give me strength because I just ate my last "free" meal tonight!!

Thanks for the support - I guess I am not a very independent person - or at least I haven't been for the last 18 years of my life! This seems like very scary decision and process to do alone.
I do need to join some face to face support groups - and of course use this amazing site as a resource.
Thanks!

Oh Cookies and chocolate, pastries and candy. It is time we parted ways.
I have fond memories of you melting on my tongue and and crunching as I chewed down on you.
You swept me away from the tumult of my daily life. You were there for me when others were not. You have always been my safety net.
But this long relationship, a co-dependent one a best, has destroyed me. Destroyed my confidence, my love of life, my love of myself.
Tomorrow, when I start my liquid diet, I say goodbye to you. And it is with a heavy, heavy, heart. I fear that there will be nothing to replace you, to fill the void you have filled for me all these years.
But it is time, dear friends, salty and sweet, gooey and crunchy, that I say goodbye to you and start on my journey to a new and better life.

Oh Cookies and chocolate, pastries and candy. It is time we parted ways.
I have fond memories of you melting on my tongue and and crunching as I chewed down on you.
You swept me away from the tumult of my daily life. You were there for me when others were not. You have always been my safety net.
But this long relationship, a co-dependent one a best, has destroyed me. Destroyed my confidence, my love of life, my love of myself.
Tomorrow, when I start my liquid diet, I say goodbye to you. And it is with a heavy, heavy, heart. I fear that there will be nothing to replace you, to fill the void you have filled for me all these years.
But it is time, dear friends, salty and sweet, gooey and crunchy, that I say goodbye to you and start on my journey to a new and better life.

Oh Cookies and chocolate, pastries and candy. It is time we parted ways.
I have fond memories of you melting on my tongue and and crunching as I chewed down on you.
You swept me away from the tumult of my daily life. You were there for me when others were not. You have always been my safety net.
But this long relationship, a co-dependent one a best, has destroyed me. Destroyed my confidence, my love of life, my love of myself.
Tomorrow, when I start my liquid diet, I say goodbye to you. And it is with a heavy, heavy, heart. I fear that there will be nothing to replace you, to fill the void you have filled for me all these years.
But it is time, dear friends, salty and sweet, gooey and crunchy, that I say goodbye to you and start on my journey to a new and better life.

Oh Cookies and chocolate, pastries and candy. It is time we parted ways.
I have fond memories of you melting on my tongue and and crunching as I chewed down on you.
You swept me away from the tumult of my daily life. You were there for me when others were not. You have always been my safety net.
But this long relationship, a co-dependent one a best, has destroyed me. Destroyed my confidence, my love of life, my love of myself.
Tomorrow, when I start my liquid diet, I say goodbye to you. And it is with a heavy, heavy, heart. I fear that there will be nothing to replace you, to fill the void you have filled for me all these years.
But it is time, dear friends, salty and sweet, gooey and crunchy, that I say goodbye to you and start on my journey to a new and better life.

Oh Cookies and chocolate, pastries and candy. It is time we parted ways.
I have fond memories of you melting on my tongue and and crunching as I chewed down on you.
You swept me away from the tumult of my daily life. You were there for me when others were not. You have always been my safety net.
But this long relationship, a co-dependent one a best, has destroyed me. Destroyed my confidence, my love of life, my love of myself.
Tomorrow, when I start my liquid diet, I say goodbye to you. And it is with a heavy, heavy, heart. I fear that there will be nothing to replace you, to fill the void you have filled for me all these years.
But it is time, dear friends, salty and sweet, gooey and crunchy, that I say goodbye to you and start on my journey to a new and better life.