My pre op diet starts on 12/23/13. We always have a big dinner for Christmas and New Years. How am I going to cope with broth only???????

This is an exciting time for you guys! You'll do great. Stick with your plan - and like another posted above me said, stay busy. Green tea (and lots of it) helped me a lot during the pre-op diet. It helped curb the hunger and helped pass the time.

I'm going to try green tea

I will be 8 days post op on Christmas so we are just skipping it this year. There are only 3 of us where we live now. Hubby doesn't eat because he is on a feeding tube and Son will be happy with whatever he wants to cook for himself and I will still be on liquids. We haven't even decorated due to the Water leak we had on 11/18 causing over $12,000 in damage. We are putting off the repairs until I heal up some. They are going to have to move most of our stuff out to a POD in the driveway to make the repairs. What a year this is turning out to be!

I'm getting sleeved Dec. 31 and am hosting Christmas Eve at my house. My sisters offered to bring all the food (including some vegetarian options that I am allowed to have). I know it will be really hard to smell the ham and see the Desserts, but I feel like the pre-op diet is temporary and I can think about it that way. I certainly don't want to "fail" and not get the surgery! I think willpower can last two weeks. We will see!

We've waited this long not messing it up over 2 wks

I'm getting sleeved Dec. 31 and am hosting Christmas Eve at my house. My sisters offered to bring all the food (including some vegetarian options that I am allowed to have). I know it will be really hard to smell the ham and see the desserts, but I feel like the pre-op diet is temporary and I can think about it that way. I certainly don't want to "fail" and not get the surgery! I think willpower can last two weeks. We will see!

It will last 2 weeks and many more weeks to come.

Edited December 17, 201312 yr by shungsleeve

Omg... Ever since I got the approval I have been experiencing acid reflux. Never have before. Even the endoscopy came back with no stomach issues. Why is this all the sudden happening?!?!

I've taken the thinking that this is one Christmas in a lifetime of Christmases and this surgery will help me have MANY more happy healthy holidays with my parents and family.

And plus, last Christmas, my apartment flooded and I got the stomach flu. What's one more crazy Christmas in the grand scheme of things?

What type of green tea? Lipton?

Our big holiday dinner is thanksgiving, right in the middle of my pre op diet. It was tough but the though of canceling surgery from cheating, gaining weight, or not being able to stick to the diet scared me enough to keep going. It sucks, but next year you will be able to enjoy your favorites. I looked at it this way, it's one day out of the rest of your new life...you can do it!

I'm doing ok on the pre-op diet still (six days complete out of 14). It's tough to be at parties and dinners with other people and watch them eat. I've always been able to diet for a the short run, though, it is the longer timeline where I run into trouble (and hence need the surgery).

It is more important to me now to make sure the surgery goes well and so I'm very motivated to stick to the pre-op diet.

Half way through the pre op diet! I am down over 8 lbs! My goal was 10 lbs (my doctor didn't give me a goal), so I think that I will make that. I am dreading all of the food on Christmas Eve and Christmas day but I will get through it.

I am sticking to my pre op diet because I feel like it is one thing I can control to make my surgery go smoother (hopefully). My family is really supportive (maybe a little annoying) and that helps me.

I made it through Christmas and stuck to my diet. But my lord it's so hard. All I really want to do is sleep so I want have to think about it. I have come to realize its a mind thing and it's really working on me. But I'm going to stay strong. The end results will pay off.

This entire journey is "so much a mind thing"!!!

The Holidays were very hard for me as well, I was on my 4th day of my pre op diet and struggling...but I DID IT!! as this morning I lost 11 lbs....I feel victorious and looking forward to Operation Day 12/31...couldn't think of a better way to start the new year.

great news!!!!!