My first day of the liquid diet. I am so hungry and so tempted to eat, I haven't though. Then all these liquids are making me urinate frequently. I just want a.... everything sounds good at the moment. Anyone else have difficult? or cheat on their diet?

i'm in the same boat you're in, girl!! i'm on my low carb right now and start my liquid diet on wednesday. i'm completely scared of it!! i don't know how i'm going to do it but i know i have to. good luck and let us know how you're doing? when is your surgery?

Doesn't get easier but it's short lived. With every hunger pain just think of your body stripping away a layer of fat and eating that instead.

My surgery is Jan 20... two weeks of liquids.... sheesh

Precious Cargo - my surgery is also the twentieth so I started my liquid diet today. I found that for today at least it helped me to drink beef or chicken broth in between my protein shakes. That at least made the hunger bearable. Good luck and stick with it!!

Protein helps a ton with making you not feel hungry. If you're allowed, maybe drink more Protein Shakes, or maybe take some of those protein shot things.

My liquid diet starts tomorrow, but I did an 8 day nothing but Water fast a few years ago in one of my attempts to lose weight. For me at least, the physical hunger went away around day 3, and the mental hunger went away at day 5... day 7 was when I *really* started feeling weak.. so plan accordingly

I found that making homemade broth helps a lot -- makes you feel like you almost have homemade Soup. I got a bunch of fresh herbs and tied them up with twine and cooked that in.

One of the things I did was take the leftover rib roast bones from Christmas and made beef broth. It was so much better than the canned, high-sodium stuff you buy in the stores.

Most of us didn't get this way by being bad cooks. We might as well use our skills to help ourselves now. I feel like I can make darn near anything palatable if I'm creative about it.

Congrats on the surgery date -- you're going to do great!!

CC

Precious, the liquid diet is tough, but it will be over soon. Concentrate on why you're doing this and it will help you deal with the diet.

Good luck!!

Lissa

I thought that each day got a little easier...and the fast weight lost felt good too! It's worth it!