Everyone of us at some point had a last meal. Be it the day before your pre-op diet began or whatever, there was some special meal we all ate prior to going under the knife.

Me? After an hour of deliberations, I had a small Chinese House Special Fried Rice and an order of chicken Fingers.

What did everyone else have?

We went to a local restaurant called The Copper Pig. My husband and I shared this ginormous platter of MEEEEEEAAAAAATT.

it consisted of ribs, brisquette, (spelling?) sausage, steak, pulled pork, chicken, bacon, homemade potato chips, baked Beans, potato salad, coleslaw and cornbread.

it was da' bomb!!!!

and a big huge beer.

hmmmmm beer.

Heather

Rare ribeye. Onion rings. Salad with way too much extra 'stuff'.

So good.

I'm 4 months out and I had the same meal over the weekend. Only it was 3 or 4 bites of the steak. Half of an onion ring and just a couple bites of the salad. But damn it was good.

I'm not having a last meal before my surgery. I don't want to think of it as some forbidden zone that I must go enjoy whatever one last time. It's just what it is, the next step in my progress. I've already cleaned up my diet so much and worked so hard, why would I want to revisit what damaged me to begin with? Most things will probably come back in some form a year or two years down the road like steak or sushi...it'll be definitely changed, maybe not quite the same, but no farewells. Except for soda. I said my farewell to that forever on July 4th.

For my last meal my family went out to the Outback restaurant and I had a 20oz porterhouse steak with sauteed mushrooms, loaded mashed potatoes, a Caesar salad, garlic green Beans, and for dessert a chocolate Chocolate Tower with raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream, and a Cadillac margarita. I was so stuffed I could hardly move. That was about nine weeks ago. At that time, I always had to ask for the "half-booth" (one side with a booth, the other side with chairs) because I didn't fit in a regular booth.

Last Friday I went back to Outback for the first time since my surgery, and I ordered the kids plate with steak medallions, and ate about half of it and just a smidge of broccoli, and that was it. That was the first time having steak since my surgery, and it was great. And I sat in a regular booth with no problems!