Issues with Pre-op diet

[Matthew2045 11]

How do you get through this? I feel constant hunger and low energy. I am up at 4am for work and not in bed till 9:30. This is so hard. Only have one week left till surgery.

[Colorado Cowgirl 170]

It is hard. Harder than after surgery I think. After surgery I wasn't hungry at all. Drinking may help to stave off the hunger. Hang in there!

[kathaleen revell 30]

I'm just finishing my first week of pre-op. It is soooooo very hard. I am very hungry also. I had to go to two luncheons this week.. ugh... So hard, but I did it without caving. I am totally committed. My stomach feels so empty! Got on the scale today out of curiosity and I'm down 7 lbs. This is since last Monday. I'm ready for this!!!!

[texasnewf 104]

It's hard for sure.. Post Op I wasn't hungry the first 2 weeks.. but now at beginning of 3rd week Im getting hungry. The best advice I can give you is to persevere. You got this ! Think about the success later... I'm down 13 lbs in 13 days already Post-OP.. that's what keeps me going .. I still have 1 more week on liquids.. its killing me but I know if I'm going to be successful that I have to do it by the book.

[kathaleen revell 30]

Yep!

[Matthew2045 11]

Thanks everyone really hoping for little to no pain and get over this hunger

[Sosewsue61 3,185]

It sucks, but in retrospect it only feels like forever. I did have tuna twice just because it was so miserable with just liquids. Some pre-ops get one high Protein meal a day - the purpose is to shrink the fatty liver to facilitate lifting it for the surgery and to get the body in fat burning mode rather than carb burning.

[KarenLR75 518]

I completely understand. I posted a HUNGRY/HANGRY topic last night as this has become so very hard. I know we can get through it, but this is harder than I expected and I've done the pre-op diet before for 13 days....

It is hard trying to go to sleep with true, almost unrelenting hunger pains...and wake up feeling the same. I can deal with them much better throughout the day as I just try to focus on something else.

I haven't had any real desire for sugar free Jello but maybe I need to eat some anyways. I have found, and don't know if there is any science behind it, but warmer things (protein Soups, Protein cocoa) send to content the vast abyss that is my stomach moreso than cold things (protein shakes)...