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Cheating On Liquid Diet

The New Tasha

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The New Tasha    24

The New Tasha
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Have any one every cheated 4 days before their surgery date?

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Nate    292

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Lots of people have cheated. Just buck up. Get back on the wagon and pretend nothing happened!

Usually the reason your surgeon puts you on a liquid diet before surgery is to help reduce the size of your liver, which in turn helps make the surgery go easier.

If you did cheat... as long as you didn't eat a bucket of chicken covered in butter you should be OK LOL.

SHHHHHHHH No one saw anything!

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amwr6582    26

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^ like Nate said above... if you fall off, just get back up again! :)

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Randgalt    43

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I didn't have a pre op diet. I ate everything in sight until 8 hours before my surgery!

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Ms skinniness    3,003

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Stuff happens, just don't cheat anymore. Time to shrink that liver so it doesn't get nicked during the surgery. :)

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bettyanne6249    50

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I cheated two days before and I was on liquid for a month. It was like a wake up call for me. It was impulsive. It wasn't even good. I cried for about an hour and a half. I had to wait 13 hours before I could get an answer if I was allowed surgery or not. I got 4 hours of sleep that night...looking back, I realized that cheating wasn't worth the misery. My nurse didnt even care that I had a sandwhich, but I am more motivated to be successful at this surgery. I hope that you don't worry like I did and I'm sure you'll be fine, but food is just not worth making my life miserable anymore. Sorry, I ranted lol.

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notime    340

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I cheated two days before and I was on liquid for a month. It was like a wake up call for me. It was impulsive. It wasn't even good. I cried for about an hour and a half. I had to wait 13 hours before I could get an answer if I was allowed surgery or not. I got 4 hours of sleep that night...looking back, I realized that cheating wasn't worth the misery. My nurse didnt even care that I had a sandwhich, but I am more motivated to be successful at this surgery. I hope that you don't worry like I did and I'm sure you'll be fine, but food is just not worth making my life miserable anymore. Sorry, I ranted lol.

Exactly.

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ready4change77    88

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I'm on day 5 of liquid diet but the nurse said I could nibble on carrots so I have steamed some here & there but I have ate no other food but I'm sure everyone does cheat a little b/c liquid for 2 weeks pre-op is hard when your use to eating when & what you want... My surgery is next Wed & it's been hard but so far I think I can make it to next week...

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sassypants    674

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You were allowed carrots?!

First week of mien was milk milk and more milk 4pints a day I rang them and asked if I could eat a couple of sticks of cucumber I got told NO!

I badly wanted something crunchy I was craving apples true fully but wasn’t allowed it lol

I cheated in my first week but I was also really sick on the milk diet in the end so bad infact I was taken off the milk diet and switched to a food diet which was fine my second week I was good and never strayed from my diet.

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sassypants    674

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had it already it was 15th of may lol

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sassypants    674

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Yeah I am on normal food, well what I can eat lol

It was a little hard had to back track and go back a few stages and work my way forward again to solid food as I was being sick a lot and I don’t try to eat 4oz at a time because I can’t so I do 1oz at a time which was part of the reason I was being sick its just too much food for me to eat and was taking too long so to eat so I was scaled back.

They are fine with that my blood work is fine for Vitamins and such Protein is still a little low my weight hasn’t stalled nor am I drastically loosing weight so they are ok with how much I eat a day.

I think the pre op diet is harder simply because you know you can still eat everything your not meant to with no issues after you don’t try or hardly in some cases because the simple things like eggs or red meat is such a ordeal (for me anyway) its not even worth trying to cheat!

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ready4change77    88

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Oh wow, well I think the worse thing I fear is getting to that point when I can eat normal food again & since some complain of it hurting that's what I'm worried about... My fav food is shrimp which I was told was good b/c that's something that goes down easy... Worried about getting my Protein right after surgery though - don't want any of my hair falling out

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sassypants    674

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The first thing I think most of us can eat is seafood fish was my first ok I can eat that and it doesn’t hurt/make me sick food.< /p>

Prawns are a little denser so you might have the heavy fuller feeling with them than fish I did but it’s not painful.

Honestly DO NOT rush trying to eat take it from me as someone who had to back track just go slow and don’t rush the stages.

I didn’t rush, I did exactly as I was told and still needed more time to adjust to my new stomach so skipping or rushing ahead isn’t worth it.

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