Today is day 4 for my preop diet... I am on 3 -4 shakes a day and can have 2 cups of steamed or raw vegtables - --

Last night though...

I had a slice of turkey, a slice of ham, and...1 glass of champagne.

I am mad at myself, yet, also sort of amazed that, that was my only slip up! I will tell my surgeon, but am hoping that since I still have over 10 days of the preop diet I will be ok for surgery.

How did others do last night?

Today is day 3 for me. I get 2 shakes per day and 1 frozen meal (Weight Watchers or Lean Cuisine). I am sticking to it exactly and have the goal in mind. I am starving so trying to keep myself really busy and distracted. I've done a ton of projects already this week and making a list of more. :Yawn:

bee

Today is day 4 for my preop

I am mad at myself, yet, also sort of amazed that, that was my only slip up! I will tell my surgeon, but am hoping that since I still have over 10 days of the preop diet I will be ok for surgery.

How did others do last night?

Hopefully I can ease your mind by saying that my surgery was moved up due to a scheduling issue, and I only had 10 days of my pre-op diet. My surgeon wasn't at all concerned about only 10 days. He said that sometimes he goes in to do the surgery and can see strings of meat in the intestines of his patient. Apparently, some patients think that because the surgery isn't on the intestines, he can't tell. The main purpose of the pre-op diet is to shrink the liver enough to be able to do the procedure laproscopically. Of course, all surgeons are different, but I hope it will be ok for you. It sounds like you didn't do too bad. :Yawn:

I'm the horrible warning that cheated on her preop diet because of other people here saying they did and got away with it (and I'm sure they were being honest and trying to help, by the way...not intentionally harming a soul!) so I figured I could too. Lost 15 pounds on my 3 week diet and BAM no band the 1st time my liver was still too large. So I followed diet PERFECTLY for 2.5 more weeks and lost 17 MORE pounds (I was floored) and then got band successfully.

SO a slice of ham and some champagne is really unlikely to derail you! But do what your doc tells you. Some people, it's not so important. Some, it is. They don't really know until they open you up, and you most likely will be one of the lucky ones that didn't really need much of a preop diet. But for the people out there like me who did need it? I can't tell you how awful it is to come to in recovery thinking "I got the band yay new life" and be told "Your liver was too BIG for the band to be placed". That is just vile.

Restless Monkey

Thanks for your post! I appreciate it and have read previous posts from you on this subject! I intend to be 100% flawless for the remaining days of my preop diet - - (counted wrong this a.m.), as there are 12 more days not 10.

I found today quite easy to follow the liquids to the 't' and am hopeful I can keep my eye on the goal until 1/12, as it would be a nightmare to be told that my liver was too fatty and they couldn't do surgery.

Thanks again, and wishing you a Happy and Skinny New Year.

Happy New Year to you too, WorkingMom! I'm sure you'll sail through the surgery just fine! :confused: