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newgrandmother    725

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I realized that i will not taste eat solid for at least 3 months. I am on day three of my 2 wk liquid diet after this i will still be on liquids because my surgery is in two weeks. i didnt get to say goodbye to food i should of had a steak and seafood dinner before liquid diet but he wanted me to start right away. OMG

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lessofmeismore    1,405

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But just think in 3 months you will be on the road to healthy happy and skinny!!! You can do this!! :)

There will be plenty of time for solid foods after... It's temporary and worth it. Keep ur eye on the prize:)

*hugs*

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newgrandmother    725

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nancy thats whats helping me. i dont think about it i just do it.

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billyvmom    128

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I realized that i will not taste eat solid for at least 3 months. I am on day three of my 2 wk liquid diet after this i will still be on liquids because my surgery is in two weeks. i didnt get to say goodbye to food i should of had a steak and seafood dinner before liquid diet but he wanted me to start right away. OMG

I had a whole food bucket list and my surgery was moved up two weeks and I had a weekend. It say goodbye it didnt feel like enough... so i cheated twice. The first time was just i felt deprived but the timeout cheated two days ago was awful my body rejected the solids and bad things happened from there. I think my main problem is I felt like I was divorcing food. I mourned the loss. We will make it together and you will get into that sexy holiday dress you've been excited about! You can do it!

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gustavo52974    369

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I realized that i will not taste eat solid for at least 3 months. I am on day three of my 2 wk liquid diet after this i will still be on liquids because my surgery is in two weeks. i didnt get to say goodbye to food i should of had a steak and seafood dinner before liquid diet but he wanted me to start right away. OMG

No.

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whitsmom08    17

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I'm glad to hear someone say they too feel like they are mourning food! Don't get me wrong I am so ready for this journey and I know there will be hard times but I also know it will be worth it. But I do feel as though the ones around me have no idea what I'm fixing to go through. My surgery is sch for 9/12/12

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gustavo52974    369

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I'm glad to hear someone say they too feel like they are mourning food! Don't get me wrong I am so ready for this journey and I know there will be hard times but I also know it will be worth it. But I do feel as though the ones around me have no idea what I'm fixing to go through. My surgery is sch for 9/12/12

Oh yes, mourning food is a big part of this process. I went through it. It's bitter and difficult, but you get over it after a while. I know it seems scary now, but you'll look back and be amazed at how much your outlook on food has changed so much for the better.

Some people have a food funeral before they start the pre-op diet. I tried that myself but it didn't help at all. In fact, it made me sad and I just wanted to eat more.

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dobrien03    31

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My surgery was Monday. I feel great. I don't miss food and boy I had a food obsession before. I did get all my favorites in before. Now I am happy with chicken broth. I have no hunger and needed to remember to feed my daughter (9 yrs). She is fed. Don't worry. But I used to live for what my next taste would be. Good luck

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I'm glad to hear someone say they too feel like they are mourning food! Don't get me wrong I am so ready for this journey and I know there will be hard times but I also know it will be worth it. But I do feel as though the ones around me have no idea what I'm fixing to go through. My surgery is sch for 9/12/12

Hey that's my surgery date too. Good luck with yours!!!!

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Barisaxylady    154

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Funny How they say not to have a last supper though most do. How can you not? had a cheese steak at the fair fully aware it is my last cheese steak for a long while, maybe ever and I'm okay with that. But since I only have those cheese steaks once a year at that fair, I would felt deprived if I didn't have it.

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newgrandmother    725

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mgs and whitsmom we have the same surgery date. lets follow each other from now on.we can do it here or one of us can create a forum just for us.

billysmom thank you so much for those words, makes a lot of sense

gustavo i am over it i had clam chowder the red one and my stomach was hurting right after. i willstick to my homemade broth.

sexy lady i know what you mean. its bbq weekend and i am missing out, but its ok by christmas i will be looking so damn hot and by next summer look out

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    • Alisa_S

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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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    • Alisa_S

      Alisa_S

      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

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        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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