I am less than two weeks from surgery and find myself trying to eat everything that I know I won't be able to after surgery... am I mental? Of did anyone else feel this way or do this?

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Keep it real please. Thank you.

^{I did that right before starting my preop liquid diet. The Dr's say it's not good and some will say if you can't have that willpower before surgery what will happen after. But I know that helped me to be able to better stay true to the preop diet and now that I am 5 days out I don't have any desire to eat anything.}

I did eat at all of my favorite restaurants and had ice cream and cheetoes and drank beer. But ..... my doctor warned me to lose weight. I dropped 7 lbs in the 2 weeks before surgery even eating that stuff, I was just veeeeery careful with what I ate for the rest of the day and I didn't do it every day.

I did a bit of that before starting my pre-op diet. I didn't go overboard, but I did make sure to eat all of my faves. I don't regret it.

It's going to make the pre-op diet that much harder and it's not easy to begin with. Better to slow the car down gradually than to jam on the brakes.

OMG! I ate everything in site! I thought I would never be able to enjoy the same foods ever again! Man was I wrong! If I could go back and do it again, I probably wouldn't eat like I did before surgery because I am enjoying all my favorite foods- just not as much of them.

When I finally decided that I was having the surgery I started eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I'm not having my surgery until March, so I'm steadily gaining more weight because I'm eating more. I've slowed down a lot though...

I totally pigged out and gained about 10 more pounds before I started my pre-op diet. It was a total food funeral extravaganza....complete with all the trimmings. I had my surgery on 12-12-12 and am feeling good now.

Yep. I ate every favorite food I could think of while I was quitting tobacco. Then I went on the pre-op diet and never looked back. Funny thing was I would catch myself watching Man vs. Food while I was recovering from surgery. My wife could not believe it. I told her I was living vicariously through the host!! :-)

YES YES and YES!!

I ate everything and then started my pre op diet and was feeling really tired and run down. At my pre op my doctors appt he said I could eat more food just to keep it low carb.

I felt when I posted about it here I got a lot of crappy answers like how if I hinge the sleeve would fail or I wouldn't be able to have the control for the post op diet. I find it funny that anyone who requires wls can even say anything like this. Trust me that none of us got here because we were in control of our food.

Anyway don't feel bad. The surgery is a great tool to help with staying on track. The weight will come off. Just do the best u can on the diet and don't beat urself up about it.

I am less than two weeks from surgery and find myself trying to eat everything that I know I won't be able to after surgery... am I mental? Of did anyone else feel this way or do this?

Feedback...

Keep it real please. Thank you.

I did the same thing!!! I ate at every restaurant I new I wasn't gonna eat at for a while after surgery,sushi ,burgers,pizza,milkshakes, Chinese.. I stopped 1 week before my 10 day pre op diet so I wouldn't completely freak out when I started the liquid pre op diet... but I ended up going to a chinese buffet and checkers the day before my liquid diet LOL.. yes its normal have fun, but prepare your self mentally for it good luck

Well i am so glad everyone is being honest, because I have been having a hard time imagining the postoperative period where I am going to be eating like a bird.

So I have been having a food Funeral lately just like you guys!!!! This will really screw me over if I happen to chicken out of the surgery! Oh wow chicken....

I'm off to Babe's Chicken dinner House!!!

I have a bucket list of food! Lol. I want to have all my favorites before saying goodbye to them on Jan 1st, when I start a 2 week liquid diet. I don't want to have any regret and think "oh man, I SHOULD have eaten that!"

I didn't binge but I did eat at some of my favorite restaurants. The evening before I started the pre-op diet, we went to this awesome pizzeria and ordered a medium pizza - to share, not that I ate the whole thing!! LOL Although I don't seem to have an intolerance to anything but steak. We still have pizza once a week, but instead of eating half a pizza (four slices), I have half of a slice -- 1/16th of the pizza. I'm typically not stuffed, but I am satisfied.

I think part of the satisfaction is the thrill when the pizza (or any food at a restaurant) is placed on the table by the waitress... or when opening that delivery box for the first time. Granted that first bite is also amazing... but after that it's just food and I don't need that high of being stuffed anymore. Actually, being stuffed is such a horrible feeling now that I try to avoid that at all times.

I am less than two weeks from surgery and find myself trying to eat everything that I know I won't be able to after surgery... am I mental? Of did anyone else feel this way or do this?

Feedback...

Keep it real please. Thank you.

I only had a three day liquid diet with surgery tomorrow. The dietician told me that the thing people miss most post-surgery are fresh fruits and vegetables, so on Wednesday, I had a Greek salad with shrimp. I ate grilled fish tacos on Thursday (day before liquid diet) because that is another favorite. I love the crunch of the cabbage on the fish. I also ate one dessert on Thursday night. I think I was pretty restrained, but what you are saying is what I was thinking. "I'm not going to have ____for a long time if ever, so I would like to enjoy it one more time." The only thing I did not eat that I love is pizza. l wish I could have had one more slice.

In a way, I felt like a prisoner having his "last meal."