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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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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        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.

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