I find myself cheating and not following the pre-op diet so well. I am one week away from surgery and I want to do this right. Is there anyone out there that has trouble too?

I feel you , i had to do 14 days and the first 3 days were so hard , I also found myself cheating , not eating junk or anything but for 2 days i had a hard boiled egg in the morning and the third day i had a salad .. after that the guilt was killing me and i drilled it in my head that i was gonna stick to it.

I am one week post op as of tomorrow. I had to do 10 days of a high Protein liquid only pre-op diet. It was very difficult the first 3-4 days, but it did get a little bit easier after that. It wasn't ever a walk in the park, but what kept me on the "straight & narrow" was the fact that I had heard/read that some surgeons won't do the surgery if they get in there and realize you didn't do the pre-op diet. That would really stink to go through the getting on the operating table and waking up in recovery only to find out they couldn't do it. The reason I was told they want people to do the pre-op diet is to shrink up the fat around your organs so it is a much smoother operation and recovery. I know not all surgeons seem to require a pre-op diet, but a lot of them do.

Hang in there! It will be worth it! In the bigger picture of life, this will be such a small part of it, you probably won't even remember just how bad it sucks right now.