This liquid diet is killing me I'm freaking starving. I have to do it for 2 weeks just muscle milk and water. I started it the 4th and have surgery the 19th. 10 more days of starving I don't think I can do it.

I think you can!

Just look at your profile pic

Keep your eye on the prize!!!! Love your profile pic! Best of luck to you

You can do it! !!! I've been on a week long fast (religious reasons) and after a couple days it's no problem. Get pass the first 48 hrs and I promise you'll do fine.

There is no such thing as can't - or so my Mother used to tell me.

Of course you can do it. Just keep the end goal in sight and concentrate on that.

If it makes you feel any better, remember that this is the HARDEST part for most people, and day in and day out I am reading about many people in your precise position who feel like they can't survive this diet.

Just watch some funny episodes for friends/arrested development/modern family etc. to get your mind off of this

why is it required to do the liquid diet before surgery?

Marybell, it's to shrink your liver. There have been people wake up after surgery to find out surgeon wasn't able to do lapband b/c of fatty liver.

im still months from out im sure havent even got to see a surgreon yet, is this something i could do to start losing weight ? or to train my stomach/mind that this is it ?

im still months from out im sure havent even got to see a surgreon yet, is this something i could do to start losing weight ? or to train my stomach/mind that this is it ?

No, I don't think you should go on the liquid diet until instructed to do so by the surgeon.

I too have not been banded yet and I also am kinda freaked out by the liquid 2 weeks before and after when I finally get my date....I have already told my family and friends I will need A LOT of distractions when that time comes LOL

I am right there with you on this preop diet. We can do this!! I have found when I start thinking about food, i do something else to preoccupy myself. Take today, I am off from work, i picked up some movies to watch, went walking at the mall, etc...basically stay to busy to think about it. I am loving these chat rooms too!

I thought I would surely die during that phase. But I didn't and I'm 4 weeks post op and I've lost about 23 lbs.

You can do it!

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Hey, you are four days into it. Congratulations! You are 25% of the way there and past the hardest part already. Get creative with your liguid diet! Below is a sample from the Phoenix lap band center... they also list items like fat free raw vegetables as allowed by your dietitian, so don't turn it into a punishment, think of it as the beginning of a new life for you.

FYI... I am waiting for approval from insurance and haven't begun my pre op yet, so it's easy for me to be optimistic. LOL Hope you guys will return the favor for me when the time comes and I start feeling anxiety as well.

meal plan Example*

Morning meal 1 Serving of ViSalus Protein (with any flavor mix-in) mixed with skim milk

½ cup cream of wheat or oatmeal

1 cup V-8 or tomato juice Snack ½ cup sugar-free pudding Midday meal 1 Serving of ViSalus Unflavored Protein mixed with 8 ounces of Crystal Light.

6 ounces of Dannon Light N Fit yogurt Snack ½ cup cottage cheese Evening meal 1 Serving of ViSalus Protein (with any flavor mix-in) mixed with Water

1 cup V-8 or tomato juice

½ cup unsweetened applesauce Bedtime snack 1 Serving of ViSalus Protein (with any flavor mix-in) mixed with skim milk

6 ounces of Dannon Light N Fit yogurt

You can do this, it won't be easy and you will want to cuss at everyone who even talks about food. However, its necessary for your dr. to shrink your liver. I am on day 11 today with only two more to go and several days ago I thought I couldn't do it, and now I have two more days. Keep the prize in your sight. Remember everything you had to do to get to this point, all the tests, dr. appts., waiting for results. Your almost there.......can't you see that light at the end of the tunnel? Remember why you are doing this and fight through the hunger. YOU CAN DO IT!

No' date=' I don't think you should go on the liquid diet until instructed to do so by the surgeon.

I too have not been banded yet and I also am kinda freaked out by the liquid 2 weeks before and after when I finally get my date....I have already told my family and friends I will need A LOT of distractions when that time comes LOL[/quote']

Not all Drs require the liquid diet. My Dr gave me a 1200 cal diet to do for 2wks.

He told me just to take off 5 more lbs. That was about 1 mth ago and I've already lost that. I'm just trying to maintain right now.

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Marybell, What you could do while waiting for surgery is practice taking smaller bites of food, chewing it 20-30 times, putting fork down between bites.

Also try to increase your Water intake b/c after surgery you need to drink at least 64oz of Fluid per day. Check out some Protein drinks to find the one that suits you. Higher the protein & lowest in sugar is the best.

Anyway, these are the things I've been doing to start to prepare. Old habits are hard to break, so I'm trying to break a few pre-op.