I cheated. I confess. I really tired to hold it together through this liquid diet thing. I started my Clear liquid diet on Last Thus and last night(sat) i couldnt stand it anymore...i have to get an ultimate cheeseburger from Jack In The Box. I really tried...i almost cried over it. This is bad....now i know how i got this big...im definately realizing whenever im stressed i get cravings like a pregnant woman.

So then today i said to myself....im gonna do better i dont need this and i can fight this...so i took my fiance and took him to see 2 movies today. We saw Madagacar and Monster In Law.....welllllllllllll little did i know the urge of movie theater popcorn would be in my face...so i did it again i got popcorn. I could scream i feel so guilty....i felt like goin into the bathroom and pukin it up...sorry for TMI everyone...i think i seriously have an issue with food. This is the hardest thing i have ever done in my life hands down.

I need some strength. I hope my liver isnt too big because i cheated on my clear liquid diet. I will be religeous about it from now on...ive made the promise to myself and my fiance is tryin to help me get through this.

I hope 3 good clear liquid diet days will be sufficiant for my liver to go down enough. Anyone bigger and have no problem with surgery after only a few days of the liquid diet...im scared i may have just ruined everything for me...why am i so weak!!!!

Sorry i had to vent..someone please respond...i really do need some input...

Congratulations Jack on adjusting to the new you lifestyle. Your words are always encouraging. I'm sure a lot of us wish we had your point of view and strong will power to push those evil yearnings aside. It is really a head game. I spent the entire weekend in Arkansas visiting with my wifes family. Every house you went to they wanted to feed you. The whole southern hospitality thing. Talk about being difficult to keep above Water especially without a fill and no restriction. However I think all of us are going to have to find our own personal way of killing these demons and Like I said, your point and view is refreshing and shores up a lot of us who can resist everything but temptation.

...the wonderful thing for me is to find I rarely have those roaring gotta-eat-it binges....most of the time I now am not swayed by walking thru the middle of the donut display, the free pizza-slice lady, the ice cream section, etc...and I simply can't imagine any longer ever having been obsessed by cheezeburgers....although I have plenty of evidence I was quite familiar with all of them...

most of the time, none of that stuff even looks like I'd want it....my most recent binge was a small 2 cup bag of pop corn...

as I get further along with my little Angel of the Silicon Fist, I have less and less time to waste yearning for the junk food, and sometimes even forgetting to eat at the scheduled time...as we get busier with activities other than eating, it becomes easier to step away from such dalliances....

cheers to all and just keep moving along....

Okay...I wasn't going to mention this, but guitarman is right.

Three years ago, I read that the New Zealand LapBand doctors had their patients undergoing a liquid diet to "shrink the liver." BTW, it was not as strict as what's being done now. Little by little, doctors started adopting this procedure. I wrote to the NZ doctors to ask about the diet. They were doing a study at the time, to "prove" their theory. But part of their answer was that if patients were not ready for the diet, they didn't have the necessary self-control for the surgery. (Asses.)

Well, I still can't find the results in the literature...and I know surgeons who never have had such a protocol and have records as good or better than those Kiwi docs, so...IMHO..

The shrink-your-liver diet is a bariatric surgeons' urban legend. Not only is the proof that this accomplishes much more than giving patients the runs not easily located...but funny how none of the other surgeons I've mentioned this to have even heard of it.

Relax.

Oh yeah, post-op, I asked my surgeon about it. He said, "Your liver goes 'this-a-way' instead of 'that-a-way,' so it wouldn't have mattered."

Oh, well.

I am currently on my liquid diet as well. I started May 23 and my surgery date is June 8. I cheated last night as well. I went seven days and had 9 more to go I couldn't take it anymore. I feel better reading this knowing that I am not the only one. Thank you everyone for being so honest.

my dr. never told me to go on any kind of diet before I had my surgery. I had popeyes chicken the night before!