Hey my December sleeve sisters and brothers. Today i start my pre op diet and temptation is trying to break me. My clerks are heating up there food and my stomach start talking. Lord help me...

I'll be in your shoes in 11 days. I feel for ya!

I started my liquid diet today also. All I want to do is go to bed! Can I sleep for two weeks? Making my kids Breakfast, lunch and dinner then not being able to eat was a special kind of torture!

Day one down 13 to go.... <sigh>

Oops double post!

It was so hard for me. I know people say they cheat but i will feel bad. Well i have a long way to go. Lets see what happens.

I would feel bad if I cheated too. I am so worried about sabotaging myself then not getting the surgery.

I am obsessed with gum right now... I wonder if I can have sugar free gum to chew on? I am going to email my NUT tonight after I get everyone to bed.

It was so hard for me. I know people say they cheat but i will feel bad. Well i have a long way to go. Lets see what happens.

Ask your doctor if you can blend fruit into your shakes. I found blending a frozen banana into mine helped with the feeling of fullness and I don't even like bananas.

I can't mix at all. We have instructions that's a no no.

Hey my December sleeve sisters and brothers. Today i start my pre op diet and temptation is trying to break me. My clerks are heating up there food and my stomach start talking. Lord help me...

I keep reading about the pre liquid diet but my dr had me on a strict no carb/high protein diet with no sugar except protein shakes. It was 10 days but I could eat meat, cheese etc and he said he didn't put his patients on liquid because he doesn't believe it's necessary. When I had my surgery he said my liver was shrunk and flat and he had no problems. Hate that all drs aren't as good as mine as far as the pre-diet goes. But glad he was like that for me!

Okay all y'all that are on liquid diets. Remember how bad you feel the first 3-4 days. Remember it well. Because when you want to cheat? Just remember that going back to all liquids after cheating? Will feel that bad again.

That was what was sooo motivating for me! I did NOT want to have to go through that "detox" and feel again like I did the first few days.

The good news is, I think of it like labor. No matter how painful it is, they're going to take that baby from you in 24 hours one way or another right? There's a definite end and you just have to make it to the end. It's not forever.

No matter how much it sucks? The worst of the liquid diet is over in 3-4 days. You will have lots of energy after that, and you will feel good about yourself.

So hang tight, and hang strong!

Hey my December sleeve sisters and brothers. Today i start my pre op diet and temptation is trying to break me. My clerks are heating up there food and my stomach start talking. Lord help me...

Good luck i start next week saturday

It was so hard for me. I know people say they cheat but i will feel bad. Well i have a long way to go. Lets see what happens.

If i cheat and when my doctor opens me up if my liver is to big she will close me up and not work on me...so cheating is not an option....

I'm on day two of my pre-op liquid diet and as much as I hate it, I feel kind of like a bad-ass for getting through it. :-)

I'm chewing a lot of sugarless gum, which my nutritionist said I could have up to the day before surgery. None on Monday because it can cause gas. Surgery is Tuesday. :-)

I'm having surgery tomorrow and have been on a liquid diet since the 9th. I bought unflavored protein powder and mixed mine with chicken broth. I was allowed to mix mine with a few things so long as the whole shake didn't go over the nutritional content. So, I also added either fat free yogurt or fat free sour cream. It made a great creamy type soup. My husband was sweet to do this part with me so we didn't have to cook. Admittedly, that would've been a nightmare. Lunch time at work was kind of hard, but like many of the rest of you, cheating just wasn't an option. I found the protein powder pretty filling after the initial first few days. Hang in there, it's so worth the sacrifice.

Hang in there!! It gets easier I promise!! I'm on day 11 of liquid and feel great!! You can do it!!