How Did You Get Through the Pre-Op Diet?

Getting weight loss surgery can be incredibly exciting. It may be something that you have been looking forward to for years, or it might be something that you just learned about recently but knew immediately that it was for you.

Preparation such as choosing and meeting your surgeon, scheduling your surgery, cleaning out your kitchen, and restocking it with the Protein foods you’ll need after surgery can be fun. Reality can hit, though, when you start your pre-op diet.

All of a sudden, you may be starving or craving the fatty or sugary foods that used to be part of your daily life. You may be missing out on good times with friends. You may be cranky and tired. On top of everything else, you may have a splitting headache from quitting caffeine!

So…what is the solution? What are you doing if you are in the pre-op diet now? What are your strategies for getting through it if it is still ahead of you? If you have gone through WLS, how did you make the pre-op diet easier on yourself? Please share your advice for making this time easier!

Having a written out schedule with what I'm eating and when I'm eating it. Everyday, I eat the same thing at the same time. I just did day 1 and I'm looking forward to the rest of two weeks.

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