Hi I am on the pre-op diet day 1 and I feel so depressed, bored and grouchy!!!

I was just wondering how everyone else got on with the pre-op diet or if like me you are suffering now with it.

Peace and love

Lauren x

Yea, I pretty much suck. You'd think I had never starved myself before! I am having such a hard time! If it were just me, I think it would be different, but with my husband and the two boys, there is always food needing to be made and I don't know how much more of this I can handle! Boy, I'm cranky! I have just called EVERY person in my phone book today, to keep my mouth moving without thinking about the food that I'm not supposed to be putting in my mouth! What is my problem! Why is this so hard. I shoveled my neighbors driveway the other day, and she came over today with a freakin BOX OF CHOCOLATES to say thankyou! What the heck!

Amy

I am on day 5 of the pre-op liquid diet. It has been pretty tough, particularly because I have been CRAVING tacos. But I have managed to stick with the program. I have lost 6 lbs. in 4 days and that sure helps to make me want to stay on track. I suppose that I have cheated slightly because I have had some cream Soup but I have managed to stick with just liquids.

Best of luck to you!!

~Amy

My pre-op diet was low calorie, low fat and then two days before surgery Clear Liquids.

I followed it! I knew the reason for the diet was to help shrink my liver, so surgery would be easier.

Would have been harder if I had the two week pre-op liquid diet.

I consider myself lucky that I only had to cut carbs out! I added a week extra to my pre-op just because my BMI is so high. I also cut out all sugars.

It was hard. I cried last night because I just freaking want a sandwich!! A stupid sandwich! I don't even LIKE bread but boy do I crave it right now.

Thankfully my surgery is this Thursday so I only have a few more days until hopefully I will be sore and not wanting to eat for awhile! Then I have to worry about bandster hell!

I've said this before on here, and I'll say it again.. I don't understand why some lap band doctors require this dumbass liquid diet! My doctor puts his patients on phase 1 of the South Beach Diet and he says that it gives the same exact results as the liquid diet does. Cutting carbs completely out. He said he USE to require the liquid diet but realized people would cheat too much because it's just too hard to do. Why do these doctors require such a strict thing before they need to? I can understand why after the band you have to do liquids for a short while to heal, but before if you don't need to? STUPID!!

If you do decide to "cheat" (I hate calling it that), I would do no carb items that are on that south beach phase one list (there is a thread you can do a search for it). Protein stuff like chicken and tuna. And then veggies.

:rolleyes:sorry to say I did!!! and on the last day I had my last supper McDonald number 7 supersize and my Dr. said I was one of his easiest surgeries almost no fat and swalling around the stomach and liver .lol if he only knew..

i've been on it 2.5 weeks now, and the only cheating i've done is had a handful of almonds every day... for some reason, i just cant live without them.

i get nervous every now and then wondering if they are "carbs" and if i've screwed everything up (surgery on wed), but i have lost 9kg, so i figure i havent done too badly.

t

I'm sorry to say but today I have completly failed on the pre-op diet.

My surgeon wanted me to eat the following daily:

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 1 x slimfast

Dinner: Micro meal e.g. under 500 calories.

Fine so I started yesterday it was a struggle but I managed it, today however I was so weak and I had the shakes as well that I have just binged about half an hour ago. I feel fine now I just feel like I've let myself down so much.

Thistledo how do you do it???!! It's not for lack of will power, having hardly any food makes me feel very ill.

On top of that I was supposed to work, I know I would have fainted in the office LOL.

So I've decided that I will start again tomorrow but I will have a small Breakfast just so I can start the day off ok. Therefore I am doing everything they told me to do with just the added addition of breakfast.

My BMI is very low so hopefully the fat round my liver aint too big (I cross my fingers as I write LOL)

Ok so back onto the positive stuff, all you guys out there that are sticking to it I praise you, you have such strength and are doing excellent!!

Lauren x

You'll probably laugh, but when I could'nt take it any longer I went to bed!! During the day it was okay because I was at work and occupied. The 3 protein drinks seemed to take the edge off as far as pure hunger, but boy did I miss my regular foods. Night times were the worst, therefore I bailed out & slept!!

it isnt easy Lauren, i just try to remind myself this is a one-time only thing.. although yesterday was really hard... i thought the last couple of days would be easy (getting to the op) but it's not.

i concur with going to bed :smile: i did that a lot during the first few days. it does get easier after a few days. i was told day 4, but for me i didnt feel better til day 6.

now i'm stressing a little cos i havent lost anything for 3 days... but i figure my body is now totally in hibernation mode cos it's been living on nothing for 2.5 weeks and my metabolism has probably ground to a halt.

this time in 2 days, i'll be heading to the hospital!

good luck lauren and pm me if you want to chat.

t

I was told I could have a small piece of boneless skinless chicken breast every few days if I needed it to "get me through". I did really well the first 5 days with out food but come the 6th day I did eat the small piece if chicken. It was totally amazing how much better that small bit made me feel. I am sad to say I did eat chicken 3 more time since then but always boneless skinless and I hope I didn't mess up to bad. I go in we. the 16th for me band! ~Laurinda~

I was supposed to be on liquids for two weeks. I "cheated" only with solid protien (usually lowfat cottage cheese, chicken, or venison) until two days before surgery. Then I just did the liquids. I never cheated with other foods, and I didn't go over my 1000 calorie limit. I lost a lot, and my doctor said my liver was fine.

BTW, I read that the diet is not so much to make the liver smaller as it is to make it less slippery. They have to retract it with a paddle and a fatty, slippery liver is harder to retract. I did NOT cheat on my post surgery diet!!!

We were told to be on Clear Liquids for 5 days prior to surgery. We had to have Protein added to these clear liquids however. I used unjury chicken flavor and had broth. We could eat as much of the clear liquids as we wanted no limits.

I admit the first couple of days were not fun since I did this while working fulltime. However, I stuck to it, and I lost 10 pounds in 5 days and jump started my weightloss, I am glad I did not cheat.

It is very important to shrink your liver, because it is directly in the way of this surgery, and it is also easy to nick it. As it was my spleen was nicked and I spent the night in the hospital.

I am not for cheating in this whole process, simply because cheating is what got me here in the first place. By telling myself this "One time" won't hurt.....LOL Well it hurt me all the way to a whopping 287 pounds. I will never be that lacksidazical again about my weight or about eating the right things. Even now when I do allow myself a bite of indulgence I feel guilt..LOL

Heck, no, I didn't cheat. I knew it as for a reason (to shrink the liver and remove the fat from around it to make the surgery easier - in some cases to make it even possible!)........

and I could think of nothing worse than being put on the table, the doctor taking a look at my innards, refusing to do the surgery and sending me home. Can you think of anything worse than having everybody back home say, "Pssssst......did you hear about Gayle? She was TOO FAT for FAT SURGERY!!? Dang! How humiliating would that be!!????

So, no, I didn't cheat. I used good Protein shakes and vegetable broth and SF Jello and SF pudding and lots of Water and tea. Once you get the carbs out of your system (4-5 days) the craving gets better and you can do it!!

I didn't cheat and when my surgeoun opened me up he discovered I was born with a huge liver AND it was on my left side as opposed to the right side :thumbup: So I had to do the pre op diet for another 4 weeks... Yes it was hard going but as this is probably my only chance of good health I focused and got on with it... and when I felt like I was going to quit or crumble I remembered those horrible words when coming round... "We're so sorry the surgery couldn't go ahead" NOT NICE I can assure you. So I focused and hit the treadmill for all I was worth.

My surgery went ahead but because of my problems my surgeon had allowed more time to take it slowly and he said it was still very difficult. Listen to your surgeons please. You never know if you're like me until they open you up.