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My first day of pre-op liquid diet - Yikes !

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gamergirl    4,610

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Yes it does! By day 5 I had so much dang energy I was the energizer bunny. Just hang I. There. Soon you will feel SO good, and so much in control it will be totally worth it. You will see yourself as a winner who had "got this". It's the best feeling in the world.

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CKR111    11

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OMG, I could have written this post!! I am also finishing my first day on liquid and just finished a bowl of chicken broth that tasted way more delicious than it should have! It HAS to get easier. What is your surgery date?

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leslie1958    159

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Yes it does! By day 5 I had so much dang energy I was the energizer bunny. Just hang I. There. Soon you will feel SO good, and so much in control it will be totally worth it. You will see yourself as a winner who had "got this". It's the best feeling in the world.

I LOVE you Gamergirl !! - that was what i needed to hear - thank you !!

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leslie1958    159

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OMG, I could have written this post!! I am also finishing my first day on liquid and just finished a bowl of chicken broth that tasted way more delicious than it should have! It HAS to get easier. What is your surgery date?

This Saturday October 5th with Dr Illan - how about you ??

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CKR111    11

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This Saturday October 5th with Dr Illan - how about you ??

October 15 w/ Dr. Kane. I have 2 weeks of this liquid diet!!!

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leslie1958    159

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Yes it does! By day 5 I had so much dang energy I was the energizer bunny. Just hang I. There. Soon you will feel SO good, and so much in control it will be totally worth it. You will see yourself as a winner who had "got this". It's the best feeling in the world.

By the way, just read some of your blog - really well put together, a good read - thank you

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gamergirl    4,610

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By the way' date=' just read some of your blog - really well put together, a good read - thank you[/quote']

Oh good! Thank you. I tell you I was so sure I was going to fail the liquid pre-op. But I went I to my surgery with peace of mind, knowing that I did indeed have enough self-control,that I could succeed at this being sleeved business. I am SO grateful I didn't cheat myself out if the victory.

The first few days just plain suck. But just because they suck, doesn't mean that they don't get better, or that you should cheat. It just means they suck so you to turn you eye to the future which is much better.

Hang in there!

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Justinh125    472

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Back when I was a distance runner in high school, the week before the state finals our coach would put us through "hell week." It would be the most brutal, intense, painful workouts of the entire season, and we all would feel like our bodies had been beat down by industrial machines.

But when the state finals would start, suddenly we found we were all running the fastest 5K of our lives....most of us posted the best times we'd ever done, and were full of energy.

I guess the point is that "hell week" wasn't even slightly fun. But it was worth the payoff to run the best race of my life. I didn't enjoy the liquid diet at all, but I saw it as the food equivalent of "hell week," and I just saw my doc today, and I've already lost 31% of my "excess weight"...a very large amount relative to what they usually see at 6 weeks.

So I'd say my food equivalent of "hell week" was totally worth it. To use a quote I used to say to the freshmen on our team: Pain is temporary, pride is forever.

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sherry24184    253

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Just coming to the end of my first preop liquid diet day. Who knew chicken broth could taste so great !! - but my tummy is yelling FEED ME you B******ch - This gets better right ?? right !!!!

You are so funny!

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Juciilyps:)    67

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I'm lucky my pre op isn't as strict.. A Protein shake for Breakfast and lunch.. A salad with Protein and fat free or light dressing...

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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
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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.

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

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