Is the pre-op diet to shrink your liver by causing you to lose ten lbs? Or does the pre-op diet shrink your liver because it is low carb? Shoot, I've been on it one day and lost 5 lbs! LOL...I WANNA EAT!!!!! I don't even want to eat bad things...heck, just some Protein in the evenings: a scrambled egg, some tuna, a fish filet, a lean pork chop, chicken, cottage cheese, anything! This is hell on earth...I'm so tired and weak...teaching school all day on NOTHING! :faint:

Last night I told my daughter...if I don't eat something and I have to down another one of those shakes, I'll do it, but then I'll go to bed and :notagree so I don't have to think about food! Isn't that awful?

I guess I'm a bigger baby than I realized.

Hey Argon... shhhhh, but if you call the Dr. Couburn's office and explain that you can not do this anymore Marie will tell you a little lean chicken would be ok.. at least it was for me.. shhhhhhh. It saved me.

Oooh lampchops... I love you! lol I was thinking that last night... that this is a 'protein thing', so surely some chicken breast would be ok! I'll give em a call tomorrow. Is that what you did? How long before you finally cracked?

Thank you

It was a week before I went loopy. I put some chicken on a big bed of salad and dipped my fork into a little dressing ( like I used less than 1/2 a teaspoon) and it was soooo good. I lost 13 pounds over the two weeks so not too bad.

Nothing happens if you drink low carb drinks, a doctor I know, Who´s name is Dr. Cantu, in Mexico, he told me that he gives his patients a special liquid diet 1 week before lap-band or gastric bypass surgery

What do you mean? I'm not sure what you mean by low carb drinks? I drink Protein drinks.

Boy am I glad I didn't have to do a preop diet! Good luck to all of you! I think most people are not hungry after they get their band. I was starving so I suffered right afterwards. You are getting your suffering over in advance!