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I messed up on pre-op!

BeverlyM

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BeverlyM    0

BeverlyM
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This is day 5 of my Optifast shakes. Nothing elese other than crystal lite Water and suger free no carbonated drinks. I walked into my mom house went in the kitchen to see what she cooked and grabed a piece of chicken before i realized what i was doing. Usually i keep my mind right about this but i really wasnt thinking when i went in her kitchen. I ate probally 3 bits of it. i knew after the first bit but didnt stop until my daughter walked in and said "MOMA!" I fell like such a loser. This surgery is way to important to me to mess up again. (The chicken dont even fell right sitting in my stomach). Should i call the Dr. office and rat myself out??? Have anyone elese slipped??? I promiss it wont happen again........

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mattie7632    24

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oh please! I don't believe anyone that says they HAVEN'T cheated! I cheated too, had tuna one night, I couldn't take it. And THAT was on purpose! At least it was Protein, it's not like you set back any weight loss with that....

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txsnow    0

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No Girl! anyone that tells you they didn't cheat is not telling the truth it's hard move past it you will be fine!!

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honk    780

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As another poster mentioned at least it was Protein. That said no I would'nt call the doctors but you need to rededicate yourself. Getting banded is at least 50% mental. The band will NOT help you for several months with serving sizes until you get restriction. It also does'nt stop you from eating non diety foods and during the weight loss mode you should really be making diet like food choices, for example grilled chicken not fried.

I not being mean; I figure you came on here to get reinforcement that you need to follow doctors orders.

I highly recommend going to YouTube and watching real life LAPBand surgeries. There is no blood so it's not gross. It does however really knock home how important it is to follow the post surgery diet because you stomach has stiches holding the band in place. Until those "anchors" are healed your stomach can not be moving around to digest food.< /p>

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BeverlyM    0

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Thanks!!! I really beat myself up about this. I got it under control now.....And no it didn't mess up my weight loss i need to fix ticker but im down 28 pounds. 19 from low carb high protien Nut. put me on and 9 from shakes morning day 6.

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BeverlyM    0

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No Honk you are not being mean that's exactlly what i came here for but yes i watch you tube vidioes all the time the surgery the new way food will go down any i can find (this site and you tube is my tv/entertainment now) But i got my mind back on track now. No more slips for me..

As another poster mentioned at least it was Protein. That said no I would'nt call the doctors but you need to rededicate yourself. Getting banded is at least 50% mental. The band will NOT help you for several months with serving sizes until you get restriction. It also does'nt stop you from eating non diety foods and during the weight loss mode you should really be making diet like food choices, for example grilled chicken not fried.

I not being mean; I figure you came on here to get reinforcement that you need to follow doctors orders.

I highly recommend going to YouTube and watching real life LAPBand surgeries. There is no blood so it's not gross. It does however really knock home how important it is to follow the post surgery diet because you stomach has stiches holding the band in place. Until those "anchors" are healed your stomach can not be moving around to digest food.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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