Did you find it difficult to still cook for your loved ones?

I have a DH who is hopeless in the kitchen and a 9 year old daughter who has to eat. Did you find it difficult to do?

Susan

Susan,

I found it extremly difficult to cook for my family! In fact, I couldn't even sit down with them at the table while they ate! I bought a lot of things that I didn't like that I knew they would so it didn't bother me as much. I'm not much of an italian eater so I bought them ravioli and tortilini which they love. Plus t.v. dinners helped as well. My DH did a lot of the cooking thank goodness!

Did you find it difficult to still cook for your loved ones?

I have a DH who is hopeless in the kitchen and a 9 year old daughter who has to eat. Did you find it difficult to do?

Susan

They dont want to eat yogurt an cottage cheese for 3 weeks? :heh:

I guess I did'nt really have this problem as my wife could fend for herself and Jr. just eats formula and baby food. What I found to be harder were those social situtations where you did not want to tip people off that I was pre-op, especially when my diet consisted of shakes, pickles and salad.

Andrew

Mr Yoda is a chef and he actually does the majority of the cooking at home so I didn't have that issue!!!

When I found out about the preop diet I sat my husband down and nicely told him that he could cook for himself or he could starve! :omg:

- actually he has been really good about it, he pretty much fends for himself and most days he and my daughter have eaten by the time I get home from work. So far I haven't had to cook for him since starting Optifast and preparing something for my daughter is pretty easy as she is still a toddler!

Mr Yoda is a chef and he actually does the majority of the cooking at home so I didn't have that issue!!!

Do you think he could give some private lessons to my DH? When we moved in with him his stove and oven were spotless!!! :heh: He only either ate out or frozen food that could be cooked in the microwave! When we were dating I gave him a cookbook and some utensils for his birthday. They too did not get used until I came along.

My mistake was spoiling him completely. Not only do I cook (and very well, I might add), but I make his lunches for work. I AM AN ENABLER!!!

Oh, see, NOW I am just jealous that *I* didn't get to do a pre-op diet. I was tempted with the cottage cheese and yogurt, interested with the no-flavor low/carb diet. But THIS! Now I am simply jealous. shakes, pickles, and salad.Oh yum.....

Optifast baaaaaaaaby. Really, it was not that bad. I find I am the only one that says that, I am starting to think that I am the weird one.

Andrew

-=smiles=- many years ago I did optifast at least I think it was optifast. (liquid protein) It was about 30 years ago, anyway it worked well. I lost and did keep it off for a long time. I didn't mind it at all, that and I drank country time lemonaide..lol -=shakes head=- if one of my kids told me they were going to do it now I think I would have a fit...LOL both my kids are very slim and I am happy for them!

opps it was called liquid protein but it was a powder that I missed with skim milk.

Yes Susansilver.....you ARE an enabler!!! LOL.

That's okay though....we all are to some extent.....there is still a toilet paper fairy in our house.....! :kiss

eeeek, yeah the pre-op diet is where i'm scared. I will have to do the yogourt/cottage cheese thing for 10 days....I will stick to it for my health and for my surgery to go better, but DAMMMMNNNNN, i think its probably going to be the hardest thing EVER. If i had ANY control on food i wouldnt be this fat!

It WILL be very hard robgoblin (I did it for 14 days) but the silver lining is that it is THE hardest part of the whole journey (at least for me!). Everything else is a piece of cake....so it is kinda kewl to get the hardest part over right at the start!

Right on, by the way, i really appreciate your posts, This is the best forum ever, all the people who have had it done are such an inspiration!! I especially like seing the men on this site (im a guy, that way i can relate) kinda like neal and what he has done. But yeah, EVERYONE is so great. Thanks for everything yoda!

Yeah...Neal...now THERE's an INCREDIBLE success story for ya!! He completely BLOWS me away!!! I know he has also inspired Mr Yoda.

Yeah, all the 'old-timers' all have amazing results! I even starting talking via MSN to a younger lap bander that i met through this site, his transformation is incredible, and he very much reminds me of myself, it's nice to see someone with whom you can relate to. Although on some level, everyone here relates to eachother.

I was really lucky--no preop diet required. I went on clear liquids the day before surgery and had to do bowel prep but that was it. On the plus side for all you preop dieters, think of the extra weight you lost or will lose before going into surgery!