I would like to properly say goodbye to all my favorite foods, give them all a farewell party, pre op 'suggestions' are kind of cramping my style...I have to lose 5 lbs..all I can think of is in n out.

Have a proper sendoff! Buy a dozen in & out burgers, and hand them out to homeless people. That way, they will be put to good use.

Haha you almost had me there for a min..those double double with animal style..just...damn!

If I don't lose the 5 lbs and have already paid.. Like..what are they gonna do about...oh and costa vida xl nachos...omfg I love food

Well, if you eat them, they're just going to go to waste. If you hand them out to the homeless people, you are giving someone a meal that would otherwise go hungry.

Maybe go volunteer at a Soup kitchen. Have you really examined your relationship with food?

You totally need that pre-op diet. It shrinks your liver so that your doctor can move it in order to get to your stomach. If you don't do this, your operation might get postponed or your doc might inadvertently hurt you. I lost about 5% of my body weight before the procedure, and it was a good kickstart to losing all this crappy excess weight.

I agree with @@Sharon1964 that you need to look at what food means to you. Maybe talk to a therapist who specializes in WLS. My personal advice is that if those burgers are that much on your mind, then you should seriously rethink this operation. It really is an either/or decision. Otherwise, you are not going to have a good time on what can otherwise be an amazing journey.

I agree. I had to do the 6 month thing my insurance and at first I just had the attitude I'm just going to do this and get it over with. But about a month into it I really started to evaluate what I was doing to myself and that this surgery isn't a fix it is a necessary tool for me to be healthy and thin. The class was so helpful!! My surgery is on February 18 and so far I'm down 22lbs from the class and pre op diet. Start your pre op and you will probably lose some of your appetite for addicting foods such as In and Out. Good luck!

Perhaps some clarification would be good - are you talking about the 6 months worth of classes and needing to show at least a little weight loss during that, or are you talking about the 10 (or in some cases 14 day) pre-op diet that you have right before surgery?

the 6 month diet? I would get in the habit of tracking everything - even when you're eating crap and going way over what you should. that's the best thing I took away from that part of the diet. Eat Protein first, even if the protein is an In&Out monster style triple. track it, and know that soon enough you're having your last one.

the liquid high protein pre-op diet leading up to surgery, however, is *very* important. you're going to feel like crap, you're going to be angry at the world. And yes, you might cheat (I had a handful of nuts one night on mine, and went over my veggie limit a couple of times) but the biggest physical obstruction to the surgery is your liver - that needs to shrink down prior to your surgery - burning up all your glycogen stores by going on a very-low-calorie-high-protein diet does just that. I've heard of more than one surgeon cancelling the surgery if they can tell that you didn't follow the pre-op diet closely.

Even with my little cheats, I lost almost 20 pounds on the 11 day diet prior to my surgery (10 days of shakes and veggies, 1 day of clears and mag citrate). that's 20 pounds I didn't have to lose after surgery.

Not all docs require it

My NUT explained that you do not have to give up any foods you love forever. You will just not be able to eat as much of them. You likely won't want them.

I never had a pre-op diet.

the day before surgery I just had to do clear liquids, The night before that I went to TGIF for a birthday party where they had gotten "All you can eat appitizers" and I ate my weight in Potato Skins

Haha nice, but these docs make it sound if I don't lose weight they won't operate, well by usa standards they sure as hell wouldn't becuase I am barely pushing BMI 29..I need to gain weight! Damn, why do I always get on here when I'm hungry

I never had a pre-op diet.

the day before surgery I just had to do clear liquids, The night before that I went to TGIF for a birthday party where they had gotten "All you can eat appitizers" and I ate my weight in Potato Skins

Ah ha! I knew it was a scam

Haha nice, but these docs make it sound if I don't lose weight they won't operate, well by usa standards they sure as hell wouldn't becuase I am barely pushing BMI 29..I need to gain weight! Damn, why do I always get on here when I'm hungry

First you referred to your surgeon's preop diet as 'suggestions'. Now by your statement you don't know if they will cancel your surgery if you don't lose weight.

Maybe you should get clarification of the issues. Or perhaps you have a sense of humor that I'm just not understanding.

Mostly humor, and a little disgust..I am struggling is all, I have to lose 5 lbs by the 16th. An d I have one more pizza place I wanna hit up before I say goodbye and be a little more disgusted with myself so that I am more than ready when they cut me out

Why do you feel the need to hit rock bottom before you're ready for the surgery? Aren't you ready now? Have you examined your motivations for getting the surgery? Have you accepted that what you're eating, and the way you're eating, is slowly killing you? Why would you want to keep doing that? I may very well be wrong, but it seems like you're trying to see what you can get away with before the surgery. It IS possible to gain weight after the surgery.

Find something else that gives you pleasure, and substitute that for what you're craving now.