Started my pre-op diet on Wednesday, doing great so far but find it hard to finish all liquids required (4 protien drinks and 64 fld ozs of water) and boy do I enjoy my one meal a day. Trying to eat in small bites and chewing it well, sometimes I forget to chew it well, but.I still have 11 days to practice lol. I may have to mush or cut into really tiny bites.

My surgery isn't until May 11th and I am thinking of starting my liquid diet 2 weeks before (April 27th) instead of my required one week. I figured if people can do it for 2 weeks so can I. I want to get a jump start on my weight loss.

My pre-op diet is only liquids I don't want to all of a sudden cut my calories) so starting April 27th I might have all liquids but have a regular lunch and then starting May 4th stricktly liquids.

Doreen, you are soooo lucky. I don't have really one regular meal with my 2 week pre-op diet. i am liquids only, 2 cups of veggies, plus 30 calories worth of jell-0, broth, and/or popsicles.

however, i am finding it difficult to get all of my shakes in as well because they are actually very filing. i have tried to space them out and get plenty of Water in in between them, but because i have soooo much liquid, it has been keeping me awake at night (as i am literally peeing every 30-45 minutes)..so i have been trying to have all of my liquids finished by 8:30 so i can have a chance to get some of it out by the time i go to bed. that seems to have worked somewhat better last night as i only got up about 3 times.

anyway, i have one more shake to go, so i'm gonna go and force it down. i never thought that by being on a liquid diet i wouldn't really be hungry. i am just fighting the mental issue of wanting to bite into something, but i don't have any hunger at all really. i am both surprised and happy about that. only 11 more days of this...then it's 10 days of Clear Liquids post op. that just might kill me