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I have to do two weeks liquid before surgery and today is my forth day. I'm at the point where i just want to gag. Five shakes a day, Water, crystal light and sugar free Jello. I'd rather just drink straight water, crystal light taste nasty to me. Anywho, i here others talk about Optifast Soup but my doctor wants shakes only. If sleeve is sleeve everywhere why don't the doctors follow the same pre op. Some doctors have no liquids, one day, one or two weeks. I need to vent!!!

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There's no reason you can't have plain Water, you don't have to have crystal lite.

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I would add some broth for a change of taste. broth is just flavored Water. Get broth with salt -- you need the salt and it will give you energy.

During my preop I would go to restaurants and get chicken noodle, French onion or veggie Soup and ask for just the broth. Everyone was very accommodating. Panera bread is really good for broth-based Soups.

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I would add some broth for a change of taste. Broth is just flavored water. Get broth with salt -- you need the salt and it will give you energy.

During my preop I would go to restaurants and get chicken noodle, French onion or veggie Soup and ask for just the broth. Everyone was very accommodating. Panera bread is really good for broth-based Soups.< /p>

Did you lose any weight?y doctor wants me to lose 20 pounds in two weeks

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I have to do two weeks liquid before surgery and today is my forth day. I'm at the point where i just want to gag. Five shakes a day, Water, crystal light and sugar free Jello. I'd rather just drink straight water, crystal light taste nasty to me. Anywho, i here others talk about Optifast Soup but my doctor wants shakes only. If sleeve is sleeve everywhere why don't the doctors follow the same pre op. Some doctors have no liquids, one day, one or two weeks. I need to vent!!!

I too had a 2 week all liquid pre op diet allowing exactly the same items you listed. My surgery was back on October 22. My diet began October 6.

Yesterday was my first real bite of food. I went a good 7 weeks on shakes, jello, propel zero, and half that with yogurts in there.

My surgeon said the pre op diet is for two reasons...one is to shrink your liver. Another is as he said...the higher your bmi the higher chance you have of a complication. So he said that the pre op was very very important to the folks that have the bmi in the 60 and higher range.

I know it stinks some days to have the shakes. Those days I flavored them with sf Torani syrups. Or I'd just focus on water or the propel zero.

It's for a good reason, so try to just wake up with the mantra ...it's going to be a great day drinking Protein Shakes today. I had to do that and it helped me out.

A little positive reinforcement went a long way with me.

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I too had a 2 week all liquid pre op diet allowing exactly the same items you listed. My surgery was back on October 22. My diet began October 6.

Yesterday was my first real bite of food. I went a good 7 weeks on shakes, Jello, propel zero, and half that with yogurts in there.

My surgeon said the pre op diet is for two reasons...one is to shrink your liver. Another is as he said...the higher your bmi the higher chance you have of a complication. So he said that the pre op was very very important to the folks that have the bmi in the 60 and higher range.

I know it stinks some days to have the shakes. Those days I flavored them with so Torani syrups. Or I'd just focus on Water or the propel zero.

It's for a good reason, so try to just wake up with the mantra ...it's going to be a great day drinking Protein Shakes today. I had to do that and it helped me out.

A little positive reinforcement went a long way with me.

Thanks Gomekast, i appreciate it. Im just tired of the shakes.

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Hi, I am just signing up but what scares me is the thought that I can't get my stomach back and I wonder about loose skin.

Welcome!!! I would rather work with the loose skin then to continue be overweight. If you type in loose skin in the search section you can see pics of people who's been sleeved. Good Luck

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Did you lose any weight?y doctor wants me to lose 20 pounds in two weeks

I was on the pre-op liquids for 2.5 weeks and I think I lost 16 lbs. How much you lose really depends on how much you have to lose to start with. I started out needing to lose 80 lbs, and after 6 months, I have lost 60.

The purpose of the pre-op diet is to shrink your liver, and to get you ready for the post-op liquid diet. My surgeon said my liver was really small, "perfect", he said. And I had NO complications following surgery. No real pain, no vomiting, no nausea, no heartburn. If I didn't have 5 funny little scars on my tummy and the inability to eat very much food, I might think the whole thing never happened. Best decision I ever made and I feel fantastic!

Good luck on your journey. It's going to be amazing!

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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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      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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