Warning: I'm hungry and whining

[tracey022216 45]

Day 8 post op here, I'm also on a liquid diet. It totally sucks! I'm fed up with my Protein and I can taste my medication just thinking about it. Today, I served my husbands dinner and I took a small piece of meat from his plate. Sucked on it, chewed it a couple of times and spit it out. I realized it wasn't all that. It's definitely all In the head.

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hi there! I am 3 days post op and have serious gas build up in my chest in shoulders. I was discharged from the hospital yesterday. While in the hospital I did over 10,000 steps by walking the halls night and day and that helped. Is this normal to still feel this pain?

Yes.. It's gets better by day five

.I'm on day nine and today was my best day other then I drank to fast an caused pain in right side. Poor tummy

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Day 8 post op here, I'm also on a liquid diet. It totally sucks! I'm fed up with my Protein and I can taste my medication just thinking about it. Today, I served my husbands dinner and I took a small piece of meat from his plate. Sucked on it, chewed it a couple of times and spit it out. I realized it wasn't all that. It's definitely all In the head.

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hi there! I am 3 days post op and have serious gas build up in my chest in shoulders. I was discharged from the hospital yesterday. While in the hospital I did over 10,000 steps by walking the halls night and day and that helped. Is this normal to still feel this pain?

Yes.. It's gets better by day five

.I'm on day nine and today was my best day other then I drank to fast an caused pain in right side. Poor tummy

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[LSuther277 0]

Your Dr didn't give you info on what you can eat? If not, just Google whatever s/he did tell you and you'll find more info than you can deal with. A lot of Drs have it on their website.

I was starving for 2 days, with the 2nd day being the worst by far. This happens when your body is running out of carbs to burn, and it's trying to force you into eating more carbs. You may also have a headache and feel light-headed. It's important to stay on the diet at this point. The hunger will get worse and worse, until suddenly you realize you are not hungry and you actually feel pretty good. This is ketosis, where your body is starting to burn fat instead of carbs. It's kinda fun, because you don't care nearly as much about food. For me, that's a novel experience. From here on out, you should drop weight pretty quickly, if you stick to the diet.

Staying on the diet from this point forward should be fairly easy, as long as you plan well and have the right foods on hand. If you cheat and have a bunch of carbs, you will probably have to go through the miserable hungry stage all over again. Don't do it.

The doctor gave me a list of foods that I am allowed to eat but didn't give me any guidelines on how much of those foods to eat. I'm interested in a menu that I can follow.

Thanks for your explanation of Ketosis. I was just looking that up and trying to determine if it was a good thing or not. Sounds like it may be good. In that case, I can hardly wait to get there.

Edited March 3, 2016 by LSuther277

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

My surgery is April 4 i haven't been told anything about pre-op diet. I'm a insulin dependant diabetic both diets pre and post make me a bit nervous. What if my sugar drops.

Is anyone diabetic? If so some advice please

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This is definitely something you need to talk to your surgeon and NUT about so they can make sure you have a diet that is right for YOU.

[livvsmum 2,368]

Pre op diet is the worst! Are you allowed to have mints. I sucked on a lot of mints :-) Occupy yourself reading success stories and looking at before/after pictures to mentally focus on why you're doing it rather than how hungry you are.

[Muted_Tummy 29]

LOL

Yeah...

You're probably gonna die of starvation...

Or kill someone out of frustration!!!

Of course, I jest (for your sake, I hope I jest!!)..

But yeah, the liquid diet SUX BALLS!!!

As harsh as this may sound, you've just gotta suck it up and get on with it...

What you may be experiencing is head hunger...

As you've not chewed anything, you body assumes you've not eaten..

Have a crack at chewing some ice cubes...

It's like food AND water!!

And if all else fails, come in here and go nuts at some d*ckhead who asks whether it's ok to have a Coke and pizza at the end of week one...

Good luck!!!