Hi everyone im day 6 of milk diet (challenging) ive got a wedding to go to today the food side i can deal with but toasting the happy couple with juice is going to be so hard would it really do harm to have a couple of glasses of wine?????? Being banded on 6th

I have never heard of the milk diet...........if it is something that your dr has asked of you then why would you not follow it.

I never heard of a milk diet either..... I was told no dairy at all by my doctor.

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And if I'm remembering correctly, on the DVD I got from my doctor it said a glass of wine once in awhile after banded was ok but they didn't know how beer and hard liquor affected the band. I'm not sure how having wine would affect your milk diet though...... Sorry. Hopefully there's someone else on here that has heard of that

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I am a wine drinker myself, however, a couple of glasses of wine when you've had nothing in your stomach but liquids could spell big trouble. At the very most I might take a couple of sips only for toasting purposes. A better option would be to toast with sparkling Water, surely they'll have something there for the non-drinkers.

And what is this milk diet? This is a new term on here and lots of us are curious!

Thank you sparkling water it is then. The pre op milk diet is 4 pints of milk 2litres of clear fluid and one bovril drink a day no food im on this one week before surgery,its amaxing how surgeons differ aparently its to shrink the liver to make insertion of the band easier

In this case I'm glad they differ -- I hate milk!! But thank you for clarifying!

Just FYI, once you're back on solid foods you should be able to enjoy wine again. I know a lot of doctors discourage alcohol consumption because it is empty calories and full of carbs, but I just count my wine in my allotment of calories and carbohydrates and have been successful with my weight loss.

_{sparling water is carbonation and isn't good for the band have a glass of wine and enjoy.....line dancer}

_{sparling Water is carbonation and isn't good for the band have a glass of wine and enjoy.....line dancer}

She hasn't been banded yet. But she is I only on a liquid diet, no food at all.

My take is..... If you bend the rules on the pre op diet.... Then you are setting yourself up to fail after you are banded. It's just my humble opinion but if you are in the mindset of doing whatever it takes to be successful.... I would skip the wine for now.

Have fun at the wedding.... It's possible even tho you will be alcohol free.

Every surgeon is so diff. I don't do any special diet until I go clear liquids day before.

When I've heard of The Milk diet in the past it seems to be European. Since your measurements are in liters it sounds like you're not here in the US. I agreed to use seltzer or something like that for the toast. Doctors use different protocol but all of them are trying to force the body to burn fat especially fat in the liver. The body prefers to burn sugar first before Protein and then fat. The issue with drinking wine is that it is all sugar and the the body will take the easy way out and burn sugar.

Could you bring small Crystal Light packets or 1 of those mio containers and make your own sugar free drinks?