Pre Op Diet rant

[Courtney95 2]

i work in a hospital and am surrounded by food. every shift they bring around Cookies and coffee. I want a cookie so bad or even Oreo with milk ohh how i love that. its only day 2 of this 14 day diet :'( my surgery is July 19th i am allowed to have one small lean meal a day. this is literally my saving grace because it makes me feel full somewhat. im going to go home and steam a big bag of broccoli i cannot wait. i didn't bring enough food to snack on at work and i feel so tired and am getting a headache i did a 16 hour shift. Anyone else having the struggle of keeping the promise to the 14 day die it?

[Dfox1984 117]

You’re soooooo lucky to have a lean meal a day. I got nothing, only liquids. I took a pudding, applesauce, and yogurt (all in already packaged cups from the grocery store so I didn’t have to physically pack anything) to work everyday and drank lots of fluids to help me think I was full. Of course I was starving lol but I got through it.

[Courtney95 2]

i cant have yogurt, pudding, or applesauce there must be a different madness to every doctors technique. Im allowed unlimited veggies though. how has your healing been? did you ever cheat on your diet

[Creekimp13 5,841]

My diet was all Protein Drinks and clear liquids......and one serving per day of like four or so options...a yogurt, or a sugar free pudding, a cup of cream based Soup, a serving of sugar free oatmeal.

Pre-surgical diet was pure hell. Worse than the surgery, in my opinion. The first two weeks after surgry sucked, too....but at least the scary part is over and you can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

All in all....that month of hell sucked the big one. I don't envy any of ya'll going through it!

[Dfox1984 117]

3 hours ago, Courtney95 said:

i cant have yogurt, pudding,or applesauce there must be a different madness to every doctors technique. Im allowed unlimited veggies though. how has your healing been? did you ever cheat on your diet

Healing has been ok. The first three to four days was pure misery for me because of the Gas bubble they pumped inside of me during surgery. Other than that nothing really hurt at all. All my incisions are healing perfectly. I was really sick of the liquid diet afterwards so I start my soft foods diet five days early and I’ve been doing great. I was super hungry the first 10 days after surgery, but the past three days I could have not eaten once and never would have thought about it. I have zero appetite which is great! The diet before sucks but believe me, unlimited veggies and one lean mean a day is better than anybody else’s pre op diet I’ve ever heard of lol