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I I'm in day 3 of the pre op diet. I wished I had spent a few days detoxing off diet coke before I started this. I think the crash from no caffeine was worse than the no food thing...... My advice to anyone beginning the pre op diet is get off the caffeine 1st. Even if only a couple days of no caffeine, would have helped me.

quote name="CubsWinCubsWin" post="3358791" timestamp="1392050964"]I am less than 3 weeks from my surgery date, I start on the 15 day liquid diet on Friday. Over the past couple days I have been going on a farewell tour of my favorite foods I am saying goodbye to after our long and intimate time together. Yesterday I used the Cheesecake Factory gift card I got for Christmas and tomorrow my mom is taking me to my favorite pizza joint for one last Chicago style thin crust sausage pizza. She is a little happy she no longer has to share pizza with me, she hasn't had a middle square in decades (Chicago thin crust is cut into squares, known as a party cut).

My weekday lunch time routine of going out to a local fast food joint will soon be replaced with a brisk walk at the gym or outside around my workplace. If I get really industrious I will go down to the nearby ice rink and skate through my lunch period. Change has come to my life. Welcome change, very necessary change. Change to bigger things with a smaller waistline.

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inittothinit, on 12 Feb 2014 - 08:19, said:

I I'm in day 3 of the pre op diet. I wished I had spent a few days detoxing off diet coke before I started this. I think the crash from no caffeine was worse than the no food thing...... My advice to anyone beginning the pre op diet is get off the caffeine 1st. Even if only a couple days of no caffeine, would have helped me.

Did your doctor not require you to come off soda? We were off our diet coke 3 months prior to surgery, and now over 2 months after surgery. Thank God I no longer even want one. Sure had some bad headaches coming off caffeine though. The fizzy nature of the soda is bad for you after surgery from what I remember. Yes newbies, get off those sodas.

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My GF makes that for me but in a high Protein version. I eat about 3 oz and I'm full. The rest are for leftovers.

Of all the food in the world. the only one I miss is a big plate of spaghetti and meatballs...

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