I'm 10 days out. I barely eat anything as it is. I don't know why I'm not thin. But I'm not into this protein shake mess. It's nasty. So I just don't eat much. I do eat what is on the list when I do eat tho. Anyone else not be 100% perfect preop?

Aginn, this might be a good time to try different protein shakes/powders, if that is allowed in your program.

I've never met a person who was "perfect" preop. I know I wasn't. Do the best you can & use the advice to try different shakes.

If you don't eat anything as you claim, it's possible you're still overweight because your body is in starvation mode & slowing down your metabolism. It seems counter to lose weight by eating more, but it may help.

Good luck.

Thank you. I was 240 the day I went in. I'm 230 now. Wearing clothes I've not worn in years. I rarely eat - before my preop diet I hadn't eaten in days. And the weight is falling off. My BMI is under 35 now even. So I'm getting my protein in but I can't do those nasty shakes. I guess I look at it as if weight is falling off and I've not even had the surgery yet and I'm not hungry but get my protein in then I should be fine. If for some reason he doesn't think the surgery/liver will work then I'll take that as a sign since I've been debating this back and forth. I'm not certain it's the right thing. I'm about 20 lbs away from being happy with my weight with my overall build.

Not eating for days doesn't seem healthy at all


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No one knows what you should do but you, but there is no shame or harm in asking your surgeon to postpone things for a few months while you work on the last 20#s, right?

I'm 10 days out. I barely eat anything as it is. I don't know why I'm not thin. But I'm not into this protein shake mess. It's nasty. So I just don't eat much. I do eat what is on the list when I do eat tho. Anyone else not be 100% perfect preop?

That would be me. Don't like anything. Like you, I just barely eat but try to drink my water. I get very light headed at times. It was very hard. Surgery tomorrow. Lap band converting to sleeve, with less than perfect pre-op[emoji19]

Yay someone who makes me feel better lol I did ask nutrition today if it was ok if I didn't necessarily eat what they say I had to every day pre-op but not eat something NOT allowed and was told yes so I'm thankful for that! Good luck tomorrow ! Mine is a week from Thursday so I'll be eager to hear how you feel etc.