Has anyone had to do the optifast diet for 2 weeks prior to surgery? How was it? Trying to see if I'm going to be hungry during that time. I've been drinking 2 protein shakes a day as meal replacements & eating a sensible dinner, but I have to say that I'm still hungry after drinking the shakes drinshshakes.

Has anyone had to do the Optifast diet for 2 weeks prior to surgery? How was it? Trying to see if I'm going to be hungry during that time. I've been drinking 2 Protein shakes a day as meal replacements & eating a sensible dinner' date=' but I have to say that I'm still hungry after drinking the shakes drinshshakes.[/quote']

**drinking the shakes**

That's the problem with the liquid surgery pre-op. Drink a lot of water, you won't get full otherwise.

Liquid diet I mean....

I had to do the optifast diet for 2 weeks pre op. I hated it but I did not feel hungry really but I modified it because it was making me feel bad. I looked up on the Internet what a " liver shrinking" diet was and the first weekend I substituted low carb meals for the optifast shakes. Then I followed a modified optifast I took a bar and a shake a day and a soup to then actually had a mixed unjury and optifast shake at night 1 1/2 scoops of unjury(strawberry and chocolate ) then a optifast ready to use container with ice in my magic bullet. That's about four optifast items plus the unjury( my doc had wanted 6 items daily). I had been doing low carb prior to that 2 weeks pre op but had limited to no successful wt reduction which was frustrating as heck. With the optifastish liver shrinking diet for 2 weeks I reduced 30 lbs pre op. also I had to do clears the day before surgery (9/25was my surgery date).

Ps I did have some severe complications pre op( I injuried my SI joint on the Friday before and must admit I did not eat much as the pain made me very nauseous).

Good luck!

I had to do the Optifast diet for 2 weeks pre op. I hated it but I did not feel hungry really but I modified it because it was making me feel bad. I looked up on the Internet what a " liver shrinking" diet was and the first weekend I substituted low carb meals for the optifast shakes. Then I followed a modified optifast I took a bar and a shake a day and a soup to then actually had a mixed unjury and optifast shake at night 1 1/2 scoops of unjury(strawberry and chocolate ) then a optifast ready to use container with ice in my magic bullet. That's about four optifast items plus the unjury( my doc had wanted 6 items daily). I had been doing low carb prior to that 2 weeks pre op but had limited to no successful wt reduction which was frustrating as heck. With the optifastish liver shrinking diet for 2 weeks I reduced 30 lbs pre op. also I had to do clears the day before surgery (9/25was my surgery date).

Ps I did have some severe complications pre op( I injuried my SI joint on the Friday before and must admit I did not eat much as the pain made me very nauseous).

Good luck!

Thanks!

That's the problem with the liquid surgery pre-op. Drink a lot of water' date=' you won't get full otherwise.[/quote']

Thanks