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The wait sucks! You just wanna know NOW don’t ya!

That’s Crazy! They told me...April 11th - 5:30am Check-in and 7:30am Surgery. The weather is the same here too! One day it was like 70 degrees and beautiful and then the next day it was seriously SNOWING! Now it’s just been cold and shitty.

Thanks! I’m sick of drinking everything too! Which sucks cause I had always drank protein shakes before and after I lifted weights. And now I don’t even want to drink them anymore! My only problem is that I stacked TONS of food with it all and that’s how I got the way I am now! Food is just so damn good! This week is going slow. It needs to hurry up! Plus the weather here in Nebraska sucks right now which doesn’t make the day any better!

16 pounds is awesome! Your a day after me for surgery! Almost another week!

Yeah the sodium is the only kicker with pickles. So I sat there and thought...I have a College Degree in Exercise Science...What would I tell someone else. I’m still lifting weights and I should be sweating a lot of the sodium out. So as long as I’m not putting in the sodium at night where it will just be sitting in my body for a long period of time. I should be ok with ingesting a few pickles every so often. As long as I don’t sit there and just eat jar after jar! HaHa! Plus I talked to my doctor about it and he agreed. Man I remember when I was playing football. After every practice and every workout, there would be buckets of pickles around that we had to eat! So we wouldn’t cramp up so bad! Oh and ice baths!

Mine is going ok...I have a Wife and two boys. They are all skinny people who can always eat whatever they want! So being around them is kinda hard when they eat their meals. But my Wife has been very good at trying to keep food and smells away from me, so I’m not too tortured! HaHa! The only thing Iv cheated with is Dill Pickles. But I asked my surgeon yesterday and he said Dill Pickles are fine! So I guess I’m not cheating. So every time I get a strong hunger I eat a pickle and it does the job for me. My weight loss has been CRAZY!!! I was weighed in my doctors office last Monday and I weighed 475 lbs. I got weighed again yesterday in the same doctors office and weighed 439 lbs. Iv been drinking 4-5 protein shakes a day with two scoops of protein. And Iv also been drinking a gallon of water every day! But I still lift weights every day...So that’s probably the extra boost I’m getting in weight loss. Iv been so worried about losing muscle and strength after my surgery.

My surgery date is also April 11th! Your probably about halfway through your pre op diet like I am? How’s it going for ya?

Wow! That’s rough! But you can get through it! Mind over matter! You wanna know what my cheat snack is? Dill Pickles! If you like pickles, they seriously help! There isn’t really much in them nutrition wise, so they make a good cheat snack! I told my doctor what yesterday that I was eating them and he was totally cool with it. I drink my protein shakes like normal and every time I get that strong hunger feeling like I can’t take it anymore...I eat a pickle.

They are only letting me eat that little bit of food at dinner time. Oh and I guess sugar-free jello and cucumbers are a All day “freebie”. Then the day before surgery it’s only clear liquids all day. Good luck on your surgery!

What is everyone’s pre-op diet like? Mine is just two weeks. Breakfast : Protein Shake Snack : Protein Shake Lunch : Protein Shake Snack : Protein Shake Dinner : 3oz of lean meat and 2.5 cups of salad with fat free dressing. BUT I find this to be just a freaking tease!!! I mean come on! How can you expect me to eat just that for dinner when all Iv had all day we’re Protein Shakes?!?! So I honestly have been skipping the food and just drink another Protein Shake for dinner.

Yes making connections with people that are going through the same things is awesome! I’m glad I found this place! Is your pre-op diet all liquid? Or can you eat anything for dinner?

It’s crazy your pre-op is 30 days!!! But you can do it! It’s mind over matter! Lol, that’s what I keep telling myself!

Thank you! I guess your right, you kinda have to just butt in to talk. I enjoy talking to people that are going through the same things as I am. Because the people in your everyday life have no idea what it’s like! Especially this pre-op diet! They have NO CLUE!

LOL! Lurking...that’s how Iv felt! Thank you for the response! I work on my expanding

Thank You! It’s a joy talking to you! I of course like our Nebraska connection!

Thats awesome! Glad everything went well for you!

LOL!!! Ak Sar Ben is no longer a horse track. Everything got demolished...

Well, the first week is almost done. I have to say the first few days SUCKED!!! But now everything seems to be getting a little better. Amazingly I’m dropping weight like crazy! I had a doctors appointment last Monday and weighed 475lbs...Today I weighed myself and I’m down to 443 lbs. I’m drinking 4 protein shakes a day (Max Muscle Pro Elite w/ Unsweetened Almond Milk) and eating my 3oz’s of lean meat at night with 2 1/2 cups of salad with fat free dressing. Then drinking about a gallon of water on top of all that. I see my surgeon tomorrow for my I guess pre-surgery check in. Hopefully everything is going good. Then another week of this diet and BOOM! Surgery! I’ll go to sleep and wake up a new man!

Well hopefully after my surgery, my stomach is the size of a banana like they say!

Awesome! April 11th!!! Only protein shakes? That would be rough! I started out the first 4 days with only protein shakes, then started to eat my allowance for dinner time. It’s only 3oz of lean meat and 2 cups of salad...but it makes a huge difference in the way I feel now and my energy level.

Good Luck Everyone!!

Congratulations!! Good Luck Tomorrow!!

HaHaHaHa!!!! That’s pretty good!!!

I’m about to be in the middle of of my two week liquid diet. Oh this is torture! The only part of it that doesn’t bother me is the Protein Shakes. Iv been drinking protein shakes almost everyday for 20 years! So I’m used to that. It’s the not eating all the food that I normally eat that’s crazy. But to be honest...it’s getting better. I now step on the scale and it blows my mind what Iv lost in just almost a week. And my hunger pain is starting to go away.

Im having my surgery April 11th