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Pre-op Diet???

KristeyK

By KristeyK, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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2babutterfly    483

2babutterfly
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Oh my,,,I had yesterdays date wrong!!! I only have 8 days til surgery!!! I'm on the 13th..I go tomorrow to meet with the nutritionist....day 2 isn't too bad...but I want something salty soooo bad! Everything on my list is sweet except my broth!!!

Are any of you tired??? I feel a little tired today.

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EricaLyn    0

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Oh my,,,I had yesterdays date wrong!!! I only have 8 days til surgery!!! I'm on the 13th..I go tomorrow to meet with the nutritionist....day 2 isn't too bad...but I want something salty soooo bad! Everything on my list is sweet except my broth!!!

Are any of you tired??? I feel a little tired today.

I'm on the 13th as well! I'm so excited and a bit nervous and kind of anxious and well....kind of flipping out. LOL

I've been on a 1000 calorie diet for 5 weeks now. My 3-week pre-op diet has gone well. I'm on all liquids right now. It's tough. I'm really hungry. Not just head hunger either. Feeling weak and light headed.

Of course today is Cinco de mayo and the entire office smells like a Mexican restaurant. AND one of my co-workers made this awesome Bundt cake - it looks heavenly. Ack. I just keep walking past as I go about my day.

I'm losing a ton of inches, but the scale isn't budging which is frustrating. I've been holding at 25 lbs lost and 295 lbs. My goal before surgery was 290 lbs. Hopefully I'll lose another 5 lbs before May 13th.

I'm also starting to think about the foods I'll not have again, i.e., popcorn. I'm so hung up on popcorn right now I can't stand it. I know I shouldn't even think about entering a movie theater for a few months.

Happy to have another May 13th bandster!

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jbflorida    1

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Hi Erica--I'm a May 13 bander too!

Hungry, but determined. I'm on 800 calories of Optifast. Boring.

I just went to a birthday party--ate nothing. Yay me! Yay you!

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KristeyK    8

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Now THAT takes a lot of discipline!!! Going to a party and not even eating cake. YOU GO!!!!

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Thanks, KristyK--love the little silly pictures on your posts!

It is not discipline and it certainly is not willpower. It is CHOICE. I find that if I have to rely on discipline and willpower, I eventually lose....and I don't mean weight!

It has to be a choice that I am making. Then there is no struggle. In fact, nothing at the party (and there WERE goodies) tempted me because I chose to do this. Mindset.

Unfortunately, in the past, after I lost the weight and the choice to diet was over and I was "cute"--I got cocky and well, y'all know the rest.

Today is day 8 of preop and I am more bored of it than anything...

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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