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Ok to all who have started and all who will start it soon...what was your Final meal? As I sit here with the grill warming up for some boneless ribs and have a martini on the patio table.....i wonder who had what types of food the last time before their pre op diet started? Were you all good people and ate something nutritious or did you go nuts and eat everything you thought you'd miss forever?

Gayle

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I spent about a week eating at my favorite restaurants before I started the liquid diet. At the time I really thought I was mourning the upcoming "loss" of these restaurants/foods. The beautiful thing is that I eat everything I want to, just in limited quantities. I'm 8 months post-op and don't deprive myself of anything I truly want. You will likely get to that point in your journey as well. So, saying goodbye should really be more like "see ya later". :)

Good luck,

Lisa

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2bskinny, your so sweet..change your name..you are simply skinny now :D!

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2bskinny, your so sweet..change your name..you are simply skinny now :D!

Gayle, you're too funny! I feel good, okay very good, wearing small sizes. However, I still don't see myself as "skinny". I look in the mirror and see the same ole, overweight me. Not sure if everyone goes through this, but I hear it can take 18 months to see yourself as you really are when you look in a mirror.

You were wise in setting your goal lower than mine. It was always 160 but I'm thinking now maybe 130???? You will see just how quickly this whole thing happens.....

Lisa

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Before my pre-op, I had a big 'ol cheeseburger, fries and a coke from a local burger joint. Which is way better than run of the mill fast food burgers. Yummy!

Then, the night before my surgery down in Mexicali, my surgeon let me have an "official" last meal and it was filet mignon and shrimp, loaded baked potato, and another of my beloved cokes. Dessert was a 3 milk cake which I had never tried before and it was to DIE for.

Ahhh, it was fun just sharing that...biggrin.gif

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I too made the rounds to my favorite restaurants before my liquid diet. My "last" meal though was a "double barrel baked potato" from Soulman's BBQ and an order of stuffed Jalapenos from Church's chicken. My lord I can't beleive I ate all of that! Good luck with your upcoming pre-op diet. That was the most difficult time in this whole journey for me. Post op just seemed so much easier to deal with because I had very little hunger.

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thanks weho and Disney...LOL i love that I was not alone in my Quest for pre pre-op food. Started the pre-op today and the "pancake"..made in a cup like a muffin is HORRIBLE! it tastes like aspertame (sp?) super sweet fake sugar and i'm trying like heck to get it down. Not a problem chewing it a lot..you odnt want to swallow it....LOL

Gayle

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Today is my last meal day.. I am having surgery Wednesday and have to do Clear Liquids for the day before. I am thinking my "last meal" will be Beef Lo Mein from my favorite Chinese place! I am going to be low carbing it after surgery, so I won't be choosing lo mein from the menu anymore.

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My official last meal was at a japanese steak house. Wonderful food and fun to sit around the grill with my closest friends on my final night. However looking back I spent at least the last month frantically eating out all over town...I think they call this the "last supper" syndrome.

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LOL I like this post I always wonder what people ate as there "last meal" . I ate chinese and honestly as I sit here and havent eaten except for the chinese and not even the night before few days before I feel like I should have splurged more. I havent eaten anything but broth and ice pops very sick of Jello dont even touch it anymore in about 5 weeks. Im glad I followed directions but all these docs have different rules I wonder if me not eating for this long is really necessary. I had surgery on june 28 and still on broth by now im pretty used to it but fod still looks good

Ok to all who have started and all who will start it soon...what was your Final meal? As I sit here with the grill warming up for some boneless ribs and have a martini on the patio table.....i wonder who had what types of food the last time before their pre op diet started? Were you all good people and ate something nutritious or did you go nuts and eat everything you thought you'd miss forever?

Gayle

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@ Gayle- I lOVED the pancakes! Did you try making them on a griddle?? I liked teh chocolate chip kind though. Good luck! I think it is easier to follow the diet after surgery.....

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I went to an old fashioned supper club and had a full rack of BBQ Ribs and my wife had a King Cut Prime Rib and we shared. This came with cheesy hashbrowns and a salad bar that included Cold BBQ chicken gizzards. I am so glad that I had this meal now that I am 6 days post op and am on Clear liquids. I really didn't see any gain since I took my bowel prep immediately the next morning. I don't think I "went nuts" I just really wanted to taste some of those things that I am not planning on eating until I reach my goal weight.

Jason

Ok to all who have started and all who will start it soon...what was your Final meal? As I sit here with the grill warming up for some boneless ribs and have a martini on the patio table.....i wonder who had what types of food the last time before their pre op diet started? Were you all good people and ate something nutritious or did you go nuts and eat everything you thought you'd miss forever?

Gayle

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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