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My surgery is Nov 21st and I have been using a sugar scrub for a few weeks.

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What's a sugar scrub?

I'm trying to learn to eat slower. It's not easy. Figured I'd better start now.

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Mine is going to be Nov 18! I have been trying to eat slower as well, constrict portion size, sip Water every 5-10 minutes. Trust me these are all not easy to do but it'll help to get into the routine for after surgery. I start my liquid diet Nov 1 so that'll help with getting in the zone right before surgery :)

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I weaned off caffeine.

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I get the feeling that eating and drinking slow will be much easier once we're healing from surgery and feeling very cautious. I've never been a great Water drinker, but I'm going to have to get used to sipping slowly all day to get my fluids and Protein via supplemental shakes.

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I quit caffine and sugar before surgery, i still miss caffine. I wish .i had started exercising before surgery. I'm 3 1/2 mos post op and still havn't started. Luckily I've lost 70 pounds anyway!

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* Cut way back on coffee

* Cut out all sodas

* Chewed much more and waited longer between bites

* Drank 64 ounces of Water daily

* Started moving more

* Reduced food to 1,200 - 1,400 calories (lost 11 pounds before the doc's pre-op diet)

It was all super-worth it. So glad I started "living like a WLS patient" before I was one.

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      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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