So I did pretty good on my first 3 days .... Day 4 and 5 I cheated!!! Makes me so mad! While I was cheating I knew I was screwing up but was soooo hungry! Had bowl of cereal.... Chips and ate 2 lean dinner meals... Also it's been about 2 weeks since I had a diet soda and I had 3 this weekend! My surgrey is on Friday!!!! Time to get my head in the game!!!! What was i thinking

I am at the end of my pre-op diet and it was soooo hard for me too! I had a few bites of cheese through the week and that was my cheat. I even thought about going for fast food for a "last meal," but thankfully I was (somehow) able to talk myself off the ledge and didn't go. Everyday, is a new day - try and focus on the future and don't beat yourself up about last week, just keep busy. We've got to shrink our livers for a successful surgery! I know you can do this .

Don't feel bad....my surgery is tomorrow and Ihave cheated off and on the whole 2 weeks. I still managed to lose10 lbs and my surgeon said at least 5 so I am good! The main thing is just not to gain weight which enlarges the liver.

Get back on the horse and ride on to a safe and successful surgery and weight loss!

So I did pretty good on my first 3 days .... Day 4 and 5 I cheated!!! Makes me so mad! While I was cheating I knew I was screwing up but was soooo hungry! Had bowl of cereal.... chips and ate 2 lean dinner meals... Also it's been about 2 weeks since I had a diet soda and I had 3 this weekend! My surgrey is on Friday!!!! Time to get my head in the game!!!! What was i thinking

Now what have done you mat have jeopardized your surgery. If you can't follow two weeks how do you expect to use the sleeve

Thanks for the encouraging words! And the the negative comment! I KNOW I can do this and there are alot of surgeons that DON'T require a diet . My best friend had same surgeon and didnt diet at all.... I think that's why I put it in my head that it was ok to have a few snacks. I got this and I'm starting fresh! Thanks have a GREaT day

Thanks for the encouraging words! And the the negative comment! I KNOW I can do this and there are alot of surgeons that DON'T require a diet . My best friend had same surgeon and didnt diet at all.... I think that's why I put it in my head that it was ok to have a few Snacks. I got this and I'm starting fresh! Thanks have a GREaT day

You can't compare you have to follow what YOUR surgeon says. I assume you want to be a success its nothing personal try being objective if anyone doesn't follow what their surgeon says are they really ready for this lifestyle change cheating before surgery is not an option

everybody makes mistakes. What is important is that you can acknowledge them. That is the only way you will be successful with this surgery. Perfection is not always the case. We are here to support and encourage each other.

eating is an emotional game. We don't eat because we just randomly want to there are always feelings incorporated with it, its not always black and white.

Good for you for seeing it and knowing that it won't happen again.

Omg@tlah!!!! I am positive many sleevers cheated on their preop diet!!! That doesn't mean they will not be successful at their weightloss. Thats why many have the surgery, we cant do it alone even for two weeks. I cheated and Im still gonna be a skinny b**ch when I cheat post op too!!! If you have had this surgery and are doing everthing perfectly, why did you have it done in the firstplace??? That's all!

BOoOom! Haha well said

For many people the preop is the hardest part.. I didn't cheat on my preop BUT I was fortunate to have had a LOT of experience with liquid diets, juice fasting, etc so this kind of diet was nothing new to me.. for many people, this is a completely new experience and it takes PRACTICE.. nobody gets sleeved because they have perfect mastery over their diets. My favorite quote is by Samuel Beckett "ever tried. ever failed. try again. fail again. fail better. " I think this is really how most of us deal with this journey in reality. We WILL fail at some point.. either in the preop or at sometime later.. but we need to keep trying and keep planning how we will fail better next time.. as long as you do that, in the end you WILL succeed.

Y'all are amazing! That's for having my back 5 days till surgery wooooo hoo

word.. powerful convo... and look.. where there is some truth to what tlah has said... or at least its what I was saying to myself when i ate that half a small corn muffin today on day 2 of my pre op/// the truth is.. we cant truly be expected to go from eating regularly, and really i notice from these 2 days that I eat far more regularly than normal by watching the cravings i been having... but we cant be expected to just stop eating totally... Now, with that said i will not say that I wont cheat at all... But will I have a meal, NO!... may I take a bite or a spoonful of something i feed my kids from time to time.. PROBABLY!!!!

It is what it is!!!!

I started April 30. My surgery is May 14. I had one cheat meal. It was a luncheon that had been set up and paid for before I got the date. It was very expensive, so I thought 1 meal out of a total of 42 wouldn't be that bad. I chose baked fish and vegetables. Other than that, I have not cheated. I keep telling myself that good health is the end result. However, I have a constant headache, and I have not lost any weight. I know it's less than a week, but I thought I'd see something even a half pound would be encouraging, but nothing. Has this happened to anyone else? Not losing on pre-op diet?

The cheating can be a little harmful for the surgery as even one or two large spikes of carbs/sugar can increase your liver size ( that's what my surgeon explained to me, and shrinking/preparing the liver s a huge part of the surgery since hey have to get under/around the liver. ) but all is not lost. On day 4 of my per-op I cheated, beat myself up for a day and then from that point on regrouped and followed it to the letter. My first question to my surgeon when I came to was "how was my liver?" He smiled and told me it was great. Look at these last days as the final sprint and follow the plan to the letter, then go have your surgery and ROCK IT!!! You'll do great

I'm on day 7 of my 2 week liquid diet. What an emotional rollercoaster. I haven't cheated - well, on my 2nd day I did have 1 extra Protein Shake, but I don't really think you can call that cheating! It's crazy. I made my 20 month old a grilled ham & cheese sandwhich and while I was cutting it up for her, I started BAWLING. I've never wanted to shove something in my mouth so badly. It didn't help that the rest of my family was chowing down on pizza that night either. Last night they made steak & potatoes. I took a bath and read my Bible upstairs during that time!!! I totally get how people end up cheating. I've found myself standing in the kitchen countless times and then I think "WHAT am I doing in here!?!" Habit I guess!

I had a friend tell me that this preop diet is almost like a smoker trying to quit. We are so used do eating and chewing that it's addicting! So even though our bodies are pretty much getting whatever they need to survive, the head hunger (and a bit of a growling tummy) make us panic and think we are starving to death - so then we eat! I mean, most of us have been following this pattern of eating for what, at LEAST 30 years, so really, what do we expect! lol - my first instinct when I'm hungry and it's meal time isn't "let me nuke some chicken broth and have a Protein shake" yum yum.

I'm proud of everybody doing this diet, including myself. It's probably the roughest thing I've ever done. I think the thing that keeps me from cheating is that I've lost 12.2 lbs as of this morning, so from last Tuesday to today. So I'm pretty happy about that. Does anybody else's Dr let them drink the low-calorie G2 Gatorade? Mine has it on the approved list of liquids and man, it helps me make it through the day!