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So I’m roughly one month before surgery and curious what others did to prepare. I’m ordering Vitamins so that I can make them a routine, I’ll stop the relaxing drink or two after dinner and start walking more but is there anything else that would be a good idea?

My physician meeting is one week prior to surgery so any liquid diet will be less then seven days, which I’m not looking forward to doing!

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Not food related:

Cleaned and organized my entire house (like I was move out ready) so anyone could easily find anything I needed if there was an emergency.

Edited by GreenTealael

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Got rid,of crackers, chips, soda pop, gave,up (sniff) coffee, wasn't easy, since I am allergic to cocoa, only warm drink I had routinely. Did. load in decade and green head but rather lost my taste for them. Occasionally have some herbal. Only sweet treat baking I did was for Tomkitten made o,ly chocolate items. Tried out some Protein Shakes to see which ones I might like. Had and still have landlord snipping at my heels, he knew my surgery date and scheduled housing matters to cause me stress. But THAT is a divergent topic.

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My biggest piece of advice is not to over order supplies for post surgery. I'm 7 weeks post and still have 2 boxes of Premiere Protein, 2 canisters full (used about 10 ttl servings) of Protein Powder, 1 unflavored protein powder, miscellaneous high Protein Shake samples, 2 boxes of protein Jello, 2 boxes of protein pudding...
Your appetite, flavor profiles change so much.

From a non food prep standpoint, increase in activity helped. I also did what @GreenTeaLael and organized cabinets, etc.

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I tapered off coffee, got on a Vitamin, Calcium +D, and Biotin, got food for my prep, got some 2 oz. containers for after, bought a treadmill and started walking on it, and did a lot of reading about the procedure. I start prep tomorrow because it's 1 week until surgery!

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Thanks for all the suggestions and tips! I’ve been doing half caf coffee for some time so probably should transition all the way to Decaf. The containers is another good idea. I have two kids so I can’t get rid of crackers and things like that. Not a lot of junk food in the house, other then chips and crackers.

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I am going through the process of meeting with the nutritionist/dietician and the day before thanksgiving my psych appointment. October 1st I gave up soda. My next big step is caffeine and candy.

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