I'll be heading out tomorrow for a 10.5 hour drive to reach the destination of the family reunion. Friday and Saturday are packed with activities along with a dinner Saturday night. Then I get to drive back on Sunday, do my 24-hour clears on Monday and sleeved on Tuesday morning.

At first I was quite nervous about attending the family reunion while on my pre-op diet. However, it just dawned on me that this will be a bit easier than I thought. The reason? Well, according to my pre-op diet, besides the 4 Protein shakes I get a day, I also get 6 servings of other "real" foods. The hardest part of this will be finding skim milk that I can use for my Protein Shakes (otherwise I am to have 5 protein shakes a day plus food).

The hotel has a free continental Breakfast each morning. Usually that will include oatmeal - which is on my list of foods that I can eat. If not, then maybe some fat-free yogurt. There is a restaurant near the hotel, so I can hit that for the dinners and have a garden salad (also on my list of foods that I can eat). While we are out and about, I could do the same thing for lunch - or if they have a veggie Soup or similar I could do that too. If the continental breakfast proves to be a disaster for my pre-op plan, then I'll just hit the restaurant for that too.

This just might work!

Nancy, sounds like you got this!!! Thinking things through and pre-planning always seems to keep us on track. I like how you thought of possible obstacles too! and a way around them! You'll do GREAT. Sending lots of good thoughts your way!!!!

Thanks. I found the hotel and the restaurant next door both have 2% milk instead of the skim. Tomorrow, I'll try to find a quickie mart or something so I can get the skim. So far not too bad, although I'll have to find someplace else if I want soup as the restaurant next door only has fat loaded cream based soups. But, still, it's nice to find this stuff out.

Nancy....how much have you lost so far? I'm just not losing on this pre op diet. So I think the until surgery on Monday I'm going to do nothing but shakes all day, no more food.

I lost 4 pounds the first week. I'll weigh myself again on Tuesday before surgery to see the total. I had lost 5 pounds in the month prior to starting the pre-op diet.