My surgery is scheduled for 1/13/14 and I start my preop diet on 12/30/13 and lately I've been putting down so much food. I feel like such a loser, but in a way I feel like it's my last hooray. I know it won't make the mental journey any better, but I am reading Emotional First Aid Kit. I don't know I'm probably just making excuses, which is why I'm over weight and need the surgery in the 1st place.

Mmmm had poutine. It's like a heavenly little heart attack on a plate, fries, cheese and gravy. Soo bad for u but soooo good at same time. My daughter offered to blend some up and the thought of puréed poutine had killed that craving lol

I took the week before my diet wrote down a few things I may never be able to have again...and made a menu of what I would have the last week. I really only picked the ones I would really really miss. I still wish I would have added Subway to that list....but oh well. I am happy as can be with the choice I have made. I know the below I can maybe have a bit of eventually in.........but will I really want to risk that path again??

Tempera Shrimp Roll

pizza

Shrimp Alfredo ( Dad's recipe)

Beef Stroganoff ( Dad's recipe)

Bacon cheese Burger

12 oz Prime Rib with sauteed mushrooms

Blizzard

Candy Bar

coffee COFFEE COFFEE

My surgery is scheduled for 1/13/14 and I start my preop diet on 12/30/13 and lately I've been putting down so much food. I feel like such a loser, but in a way I feel like it's my last hooray. I know it won't make the mental journey any better, but I am reading Emotional First Aid Kit. I don't know I'm probably just making excuses, which is why I'm over weight and need the surgery in the 1st place.

You know I chowed down prior to my preop diet! My brain really thought I'd NEVER be able to eat again. I look back and think how silly that thought was, but at the time it was REAL. You are not alone :-)

You know I chowed down prior to my preop diet! My brain really thought I'd NEVER be able to eat again. I look back and think how silly that thought was, but at the time it was REAL. You are not alone :-)

Hey..I follow you on YouTube...thanks lady!!!!

Hey..I follow you on YouTube...thanks lady!!!!

I knoooowww lol. It's the only reason I replied. You've been so supportive of me and I didn't want you to think that you were alone with your pre-op food funerals.

I did too.. weekend before pre-op diet began, I had my favorites. That was the last time I've had any of it.. I do sometimes feel I still crave some, but I tell myself it's head hunger and go for some water to delay that feeling..

I found out last minute that I have to start my 3 week diet on monday. I don't even know what foods i'll miss at this point but I do know I want to have a food funeral before monday! XD

Even though I'd read prior to my pre opt diet that food funerals are a bad idea, i had several small ones last week. First We husband and i ate out every night for dinner at all my favorite places. I took Chipotle, Applebees, pizza Hut and other leftovers from dinner to lunch everyday.

On thursday mom and i went to olive garden after i got off work. She said a salad and Soup and i had 2 bowls of soup, linguine alfredo and 2 sprites.

On friday i ate hot wings and macaroni around 3 then at 7, i got together with friends and we made pork spring rolls and the three of us shared a large, chocolate, peppermint pie. (Surprisingly they ate as much, if not more than me for dinner but both of them are thinner than me. One if them has even had 3 children and she's barely a size 6! Not fair!)

Did a tour of my favourite restaurants in the two weeks prior to the pre-op diet. Had a lot of nice meals that I really enjoyed.

Day before diet started, I went and bought food I thought I would miss - rice, beef, chocolate, Snacks - but strangely enough, I didn't eat any of it. Was so focussed on the forthcoming diet and so ready to make changes, I just wanted to get on with it... bit boring but I was so done with food by then, there was nothing left to eat that gave me a thrill!

I didn't intentionally misbehave and say goodbye to things. My attitude was, "ive eaten these things way too many times to count. Whats one more gonna do for me?"

But I did slip up once and went way over my calorie limit in the two week pre-op diet. I also did some 'tasting' - chewing but not swallowing. It really helped me with those momentary urges when I'd smell something my wife made in the kitchen. The hands already on it, its in my mouth, NOW WHAT. Chew chew, spit it in the trash can. No harm no foul.

I did a food funeral too. It was bad but Good!

Now, after 10 months out I see I m not deprived on food. I can eat any thing I want but choose not. One thing I didn't go all out because I was afraid of being an open Lap. Long scar during my surgery.

Good luck!

I am 1 yr out and before my pre op diet I ate at every restaurant I enjoyed and ate what I wanted. My surgeon wanted me to lose at least 4 lbs before surgery, silly huh. I did do that. BUT during my 2 week pre op diet I did not cheat once. I am almost 100 lbs down and still have great restriction. I eat everything but not a lot.

I'm really struggling with the last meals and food funerals right now. I've gained several pounds in the last few weeks and this needs to stop b/c it's only going to be more weight that I have to lose after the surgery. I keep telling myself that it won't be the last time I can ever have these foods again but still have the desire to binge. Hopefully I will get this all out of my system before my preop diet starts as I have no intention of cheating and want to make things as easy for my surgeon as possible.

So glad to hear that I'm not alone in this

I went to all my favorite places and ate whatever I wanted. But then again, that's sort of what I did for years and why I was headed for surgery in the first place. If you want to, I say go for it.

Will it be satisfying? I doubt it.

Nope, didn't see the need. Kind of weird - I expected to see myself pigging out but I just didn't feel the urge.