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Omfg what did I get myself into. I thought oh whatever two weeks piece of cake but I'm on my first day and I literally want to start eating my arm. I'm so hungry! Any tips on how to survive 13 more days of not eating? And last min prep

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Today is my 8th day on pre-op diet. The 1st four days were hell almost as if I was detoxing. So much better now. Just think of the outcome!!!!

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Hey my surgery is the 21st also. I started my diet yesterday an yes I feel terrible too. Im hungry an I've had a constant headache. I reallllly wanna cheat. But im trying not to.

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I totally feel you guys! My surgery is the 20th and I am on day 3 of my lean diet ( forever greatful it's not all liquid). The first day I cheated and told myself just that one time. Yesterday I wanted a pbj soooooo bad and my mind wanted to say just one more time. However we all know one is never enough so I prayed and asked God to get me through the night and shared how I was feeling with you guys on here and I made it through the night.

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Mine is on the 20th as well. I am 5 days into my diet as well, first 3 days great, no problem. Yesterday and today I could eat the house. I promised my husband that if I cheated in this diet I would cancel surgery ( he really doesn't want me to do it, he is scared silly). Not going to do either. Cheat or cancel..gotta keep your eye on the prize

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I'm on day 7 of my two week diet and I'm not doing too bad. Haven't really been too hungry. At certain times I have been but for the most part I'm doing pretty well. I can have 4 Boost a day and broth.< /p>

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I'm now starting day 4. It's got a little better but I'm having cravings. Just more so I think because I can't have it and really want it. I just keep remember there's a reason I'm doing this there's a reasons I got like this in the first place so gotta keep going. My friend had surgery a week ago and another friend 6 months ago they said cheating was going to happen because your body feels deprived. Glad to know I'm not the only may surgery:)

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I'm now starting day 4. It's got a little better but I'm having cravings. Just more so I think because I can't have it and really want it. I just keep remember there's a reason I'm doing this there's a reasons I got like this in the first place so gotta keep going. My friend had surgery a week ago and another friend 6 months ago they said cheating was going to happen because your body feels deprived. Glad to know I'm not the only may surgery:)

Good luck on your pre op diet. I hope it gets better. I'm almost done. Surgery on Tuesday! Congrats on your date. Can I add you to our May Surgeries List on Our May Surgeries forum?? Come on over, we are a great support group. We would love to have you. The more support, the better. :-)

Surgery date: May 14, 2013

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Hey my surgery is the 21st also. I started my diet yesterday an yes I feel terrible too. Im hungry an I've had a constant headache. I reallllly wanna cheat. But im trying not to.

Congratulations on your surgery date. Can I add you to our May Surgeries List?? Come on over to our May Surgeries support group. :-)

Surgery date: May 14, 2013

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Congratulations on your surgery date. Can I add you to our May Surgeries List?? Come on over to our May Surgeries support group. :-)

Surgery date: May 14' date=' 2013[/quote']

Yes you can!

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With our date getting closer are you getting more nervous? I'm after day 7 for shakes and it's became easier, like just a part of my routine. We got this though!!! Months of hard work and endless appointments

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I did was shakes..got Mrs shakes pet day...helped a lot

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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.

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