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Hi I'm new to the group my surgery is june 4 in two days!! I'm nervous and scared but happy. My doc put me on a 5 day pre op liquid date but I am so hungry I feel like any min the devil might lead me to touch food...how are you guys getting through it?

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I can only imagine how tough it is...my surgeon had no pre-op diet...but even post-op when I was on liquids for two weeks, I was hungry--truly hungry and not just head hunger...it gets better post-op when you can have soft foods and denser protein...just hang in there--in the long run, this will be a distant memory

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Yo Abba!, Since I am also June forth, here in Delaware, I know EXACTLY what you are going through. There is no easy way, just keep focused and think of your next steps, I reckon. We can do it!!

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June 4th is my day...Worried to pieces. .Liquid diet is the worst thing to man kind except for the weight loss. Started at 242 on Monday 233 today...

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My surgery date is tomorrow, June 3, but today is the first day on Clear Liquids. I'm with you guys...I'm hungry today! I've been trying to keep my mind off of it by cleaning my house...it's also keeping me from being nervous about the surgery. I also look at it as a preview of the days right after surgery.

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My surgery is the 5th. I've had 2 wks liquid diet. Can't wait for hurger pains to stop. I've lost 51 lbs so far. The 2 nd wk has been a lot harder than the 1st.

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I see a lot of doctors have different pre op diet dates. Im very. Nervous but also happy a guide to a new healthy me..good luck everyone

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Yes best wishes to us all. We have to be at the hospital @5am & surgery is at 7:30 glad to get it done early. 2 night stay

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@Abba 0604

Lucky you only had one day of the liquid diet but I never heard of just one day though. 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, mine was a week.

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Yes I been seeing some crazy days lol. I started Friday and I felt like I was gonna diee...

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My surgeon uses Medifast, and the length of time you do the pre op diet is determined by your BMI. I am lucky that I only had to do one week -- I can't imagine doing this for 2. My surgery is tomorrow and for some reason, I'm not nervous -- go figure! I am a conversion from lap band, so there's about a 20% chance there will be too much scar tissue in my stomach to do the sleeve; I hope and pray that's not the case, but by this time tomorrow night I will know for sure!

@Tigerbelle -- you were hungry post op?? That's discouraging! I haven't heard anyone say that hunger was an issue after surgery.

@PainintheGlass -- good luck tomorrow!

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My surgeon uses Medifast' date=' and the length of time you do the pre op diet is determined by your BMI. I am lucky that I only had to do one week -- I can't imagine doing this for 2. My surgery is tomorrow and for some reason, I'm not nervous -- go figure! I am a conversion from lap band, so there's about a 20% chance there will be too much scar tissue in my stomach to do the sleeve; I hope and pray that's not the case, but by this time tomorrow night I will know for sure!

@Tigerbelle -- you were hungry post op?? That's discouraging! I haven't heard anyone say that hunger was an issue after surgery.

@PainintheGlass -- good luck tomorrow![/quote']

Not everyone loses hunger after surgery...especially in the initial phase until you are cleared for puréed or soft foods. But everyone is different....

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My surgery is 6/4 also! No preop diet needed, just the day before cleanse, Im nervous for the weeks to come but excited for the future so I think that will help me get through these hard weeks! Good luck! Take care of yourself!

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    • Alisa_S

      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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