I am a stay at home mom with 3 kids under 3. I have 7 days of torture...I mean liquid pre-op diet and today is only day 1. I'm allowed to have as many sugar free popsicles and jello as I want, but I can't eat it infront of the kids or they will beg and whine for some and eat my whole stash! Making them breakfast was no big deal this morning because I wasn't starving yet. I just made them a snack and I wanted to eat SO bad so I sent them in the other room to sit at their table so I could sneak a cup of jello. How do you guys do this? I want to eat popsicles and jellow like once an hour to keep my stomach from eating itself (well that's what it feels like anyway), but I can't!!!

Are you drinking protein drinks? That she help keep you feeling full. I only had to do one day liquid diet before surgery and after surgery 4 weeks (that was hell). Your Doctor's office should have given you a list of different liquids you can have. Good luck on your journey.

Are you drinking protein drinks? That she help keep you feeling full. I only had to do one day liquid diet before surgery and after surgery 4 weeks (that was hell). Your Doctor's office should have given you a list of different liquids you can have. Good luck on your journey.

I can have 2 protein-ish drinks a day (atkins, slimfast, etc). I've already had one so I'm trying to wait on the other one. I can also have 2 c. raw beggies and 1 small fruit. I had the fruit at breakfast so I'm trying to space things out a little. I wonder why all of the surgeons do things differently? They had a group of 6 of us doing the preop bloodwork and testing and told us all the same thing (regardless of current weight). So I guess that has nothing to do with it? I don't know, but it's torture already. And knowing that some only have to do 1 day (or none at all) makes it worse! Although I see that some have 2 whole weeks of it. Yikes. I'm excited to see the scale go down so I need to keep reminding myself of that. Oh well, off to meet with the surgeon for the last time before surgery next week! Thanks for the reply.