Hi,

Just received aetna approval following a 6 month required diet and meetings with a nutritionist. So, my journey so far has left me down 65 lbs! I'm very excited but VERY nervous about this 2 week pre op diet. I'm looking for any suggestions or thoughts that will help me get through this. Thanks!!

Edited November 30, 201510 yr by Mariggle

My pre-op diet is for 3 weeks. It consists of 3 or 4 Protein shakes a day and one low cal dinner. Grand total per day calories not to exceed 870. I've been averaging 650 calories a day. I'm on day 12. I was hungry the first few days but since then not so much. I have struggled with head hunger (thinking of things that I really wanted to eat) a couple times. I have not given in.

The main reasons I have stuck closely to this diet: it is required by my surgeon, it has a completion date (before I change to sleeve diet), and I felt (for me) if I can't do this for three weeks, maybe I ought to consider my readiness for the sleeve changes that will be for life. I see the sleeve as a tool to help with my new diet, and not the sleeve being the diet. This pre-op IS the start of the whole change, where the sleeve arrives a little later to help he get thru the rest of my life.

You might be nervous, but let me tell you that 2 weeks of hell will jump start aggressive weight loss like you can't believe. My Doc had me doing these shakes that were just nasty. Instead of 4-5 a day, I could only do 3. And, when I drank them, I held my nose, guzzled them down, and then washed my mouth out to remote the taste with Crystal Light Lemonade.

I lost 32 lbs in just those 2 weeks.

PS The comment above that its the first 3 days thats the worst is spot on, around day 4 your body adjusts and its just a 'ritual'.

-RC-