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Just ate a Cheeseburger on my preop. OMG!

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reno1128    34

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I need encouragement please. Surgery is on Wednesday and I feel awful. Stopped and ate a cheeseburger because I was starving!

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RJ'S/beginning    5,358

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What is your pre-op diet anyway?

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TwinsMama    483

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Don't beat yourself up too much. But also don't do this again. You want your liver small to avoid complications.

Pick yourself up, realize you did an unwise action, and then move on. No need in crying over spilled milk.

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RJ'S/beginning    5,358

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The whole reason for the pre op diet is to like TwinsMama says is to shrink your liver.....there was a time that someone held your liver in place while they work on your stomach ....Now it is a tool they use to clamp the liver in place away from your stomach so that they can easily do the surgery....if the liver is too big..Most Doctors will not do the surgery.....The risk becomes high.....

Pull yourself together and rethink of why you are having this done.....What is your objective.....And think of those things if you become tempted again to eat a cheese burger...

Carry with you a Protein drink or something else at all times that you are allowed to eat on your pre-op diet...K

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No game    14,437

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I need encouragement please. Surgery is on Wednesday and I feel awful. Stopped and ate a cheeseburger because I was starving!

I'm not sure what kind of encouragement you need?? is it to get back on track? Did you blow a pre op diet? If so, I would ask why you had a cheeseburger? I doubt that you were literally "starving" so lets just say you were hungry? Or perhaps you craving a hamburger? If you were hungry is there something other than a hamburger you could of eaten? Or had you eaten all of your "food" for the day?

This pre op "diet" and post op "diet" are different than all of the other diets you have done. So cheating really shouldn't be an option. You are trying to get your body (liver) ready for surgery. And post op the long torturous liquid diet is to let your stomach heal.. So my encouragement is... Its time to get your head in the game because you will need it there for now on if you want to be successful in this..

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DonRodolfo    1,416

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I need encouragement please. Surgery is on Wednesday and I feel awful. Stopped and ate a cheeseburger because I was starving!

What's done is done. If you do this too soon after being sleeved, expect a trip to the emergency room.

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I'm not sure what kind of encouragement you need?? is it to get back on track? Did you blow a pre op diet? If so, I would ask why you had a cheeseburger? I doubt that you were literally "starving" so lets just say you were hungry? Or perhaps you craving a hamburger? If you were hungry is there something other than a hamburger you could of eaten? Or had you eaten all of your "food" for the day?

This pre op "diet" and post op "diet" are different than all of the other diets you have done. So cheating really shouldn't be an option. You are trying to get your body (liver) ready for surgery. And post op the long torturous liquid diet is to let your stomach heal.. So my encouragement is... Its time to get your head in the game because you will need it there for now on if you want to be successful in this..

Yep... The head is the key.

Even IF starving, 4 oz of sliced turkey lunchmeat is acceptable Protein...

Hang in there but get your head in the game

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I'll echo what others are saying about the seriousness of not cheating. But here's another thing. It seems even harder after surgery. I did 2 weeks of liquid with little problem. I'm seven days post-op and all I think of is eating something. Anything. Everything. Biting into crisp, gooey things, I want food!!

And I can't have any. For THREE MORE WEEKS. One week of Clear liquids, 2 weeks of full liquids, 1 week of puréed food, and only then, solids.

Unless of course I want to rupture my stomach and die of leaks or something.

This is serious sh*t. If you can't make it pre-op ask yourself how you intend to do the post-op, where cheating carries with it very, very, serious health risks.

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