My surgery is scheduled for January 30th and I am READY! I however and very nervous for my liquid diet. How do you get through it? I guess I'm most terrified because I have a toddler who loves to sit down and have a snack with me. I know its going to be hard and I guess I'm just trying to work through it.

How did you get through your liquid diet?

I only have to do a weeks worth of liquid diet for my surgery. I am on day five. I am surprised at how managable it has been for me. I have not cheated once. I just keep thinking that I want to do everything right, so I can have a safer surgery and hopefully a better recovery. I have a protien shake for breakfast, a protien shake, chicken broth and jello for lunch and a protien shake, chicken broth and jello for dinner, with lots of flavored water between all of them. I think I am filling up on water. If needed in the evening, I will have a protein shake or jello. Hope that helps!

I was home a lot during my first two weeks of liquids just recuperating, but I must admit I spent a lot of my time in my room in my bed just surfing the web and watching movies and television. Netflix helped a lot. I tried to avoid eating situations whenever possible. (even napping during my family's dinner time haha). Granted, I'm a college student, so not doing much is okay.

Maybe when your child eats their snack you can be in the kitchen (or wherever they eat) doing something else like straightening up or purposely leave something undone so you can do it while they eat to distract yourself.

Reading helped pass the time too!

Edit: Whoops! I thought you meant post-op not pre-op! Still try to distract yourself. Good luck :]

I'm on a partial liquid diet before going full liquid for the 2 weeks prior to surgery. It's a huge mental game and challenge. I'm thinking of it in terms of this: if I don't do it, it's possible for my surgery to be postponed. I want the surgery therefore I'm going to do the liquid diet.

Part of the reason for the liquid diet for me is that I have a goal amount to lose as prescribed by the surgeon. No diet = no loss = no surgery.

As for helping, I find that hot tea really helps curb my appetite. It might just be because it's hot, but so far I'm finding it helps.

I did a little over two weeks on a liquid pre-op. My first few days were terrible. In fact, I took a day off work just so I could give myself time to adjust. I was doing 5 shakes a day with a small (1/2c) serving of vegetables every day. My first two days I actually allowed myself to eat some steamed salmon in order to help me transition, so I was doing 2 shakes and 2 pieces of fish. Then, on the day I was supposed to start, it was nothing but shakes all day. The first few days were the worst, but then I started dropping weight By the time I was one week pre-op, I was finding that I couldn't eat all they wanted me to. I was having trouble getting in 3 shakes a day (the absolute minimum) because my desire to eat (as well as choke down another shake) were both at an absolute minimum. I was glad for my surgery date to get here.

It was hard but the whole time I just kept reminding myself that the only person who would lose if I failed to keep with it would be me. I had to take responsibility. In a lot of ways, the pre-op diet is good training. If we can't make it two weeks, how are we ever going to do a lifetime?