Suzi61Johnson
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Suzi61Johnson reacted to LillieDuFran in How did you guys do on your pre op diet?
I'm on day 3 of the Optifast800 pre op. It's do-able, although not particularly satisfying. Reminding myself that it is not about food, but health. No Constipation, but rather the other direction. I do want to be surgery ready come 10/5.
Liked the reminder that we have CLEAN Water. I have shelter, I am not "starving" just bored, and food is not friendship, but "medicene".
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Suzi61Johnson reacted to DisplacedYankee in How did you guys do on your pre op diet?
I am currently half way through my liquid diet and I am going bonkers. I am having about 4 shakes a day or 2 with one Isopure to hit my Protein goal. I am not hungry but I have the super strong urge to munch. I had my first Jello today so that helped for like 10 minutes. It also makes me wish I still had my E-Cig but that had to go as well. Maybe I should take up knitting or cross stitch to keep my hands busy!!
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Suzi61Johnson reacted to PrayingForWeightLoss in How did you guys do on your pre op diet?
Preop was the hardest part of this journey for me. Sleeved on July the 28th 2017. Honestly I had philosophize the whole process to stay sane. I had to remind myself that there are plenty of people in the world who, through no fault or choice of their own, go for days without food or with very little to eat. Here I was with access to shakes, veges, and clean Water and I was complaining. That kept me focused. I just reminded myself the preop will not kill me.
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Suzi61Johnson reacted to readytorunagain in How did you guys do on your pre op diet?
It was difficult. That discipline is needed for post op too. Keep that in mind. I had headaches and was very week on preop diet. I am now 4 weeks post op and have pretty much forgotten all about preop. It's worth it to stay the course. Good luck. There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Suzi61Johnson reacted to ZinNH in right after surgery
I have been very fortunate to have had no complications and a fairly easy recovery. It's impossible to predict though!
i had a two day hospital stay, and I was up walking laps around the hospital wing within a few hours. (Although, most of those two days, I was sleeping.).
I did go back to work yesterday, which was day 6, but I have a desk job and I only work 6 hours a day. I was exhausted by mid-day, so it probably wouldn't have hurt to take more time off. I didn't want to tell anyone at work about the surgery though, so I just sucked it up and dealt with the exhaustion.