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ok...i broke....i had egg whites.....with onion....and I must say they were the best $%@ egg whites i've ever had...LOL. Seriously...they helped. I figured if i was going to cheat let it al least be a small cheat. 5 more days til surgery. I hope it gets better after...even though I feel like it might not for a while. Thanks you guys.....your responses are great....At least I don't feel alone in this.

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Jack,

You are 100% right. I have been eating whatever I want for years. I just need to do this.....and I am...but no one said it was going to be easy. If it was I would have done it already. I'm just feeling a little weak today.....needed to complain. Needed to know I'm not alone.........

Congrats on your NSV and your scale Victories for that matter....you and so many others are so inspiring........maybe one day you won't need any insulin at all!!!

I wish my mother had the opportunity to have this band......She's only 65.....and for 20 years a diabetic, heart disease, bypasses, MI x 5, and now end stage renal disease on dialysis. To mention a few.....

Tomorrow is another day.......

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I didn't have to do the pre-op liquid diet but I did have to do the full week of Clear Liquids and then 4 weeks of full liquids. It is much harder to do it pre-op than after the surgery. For those of you who asked, you can make it through the week of clear liquids after surgery. In my experience, I wasn't even hungry until day 4 or 5 anyway.

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There's no doubt about it, the pre-op liquids suck, and the docs all know we eat "one last meal" However, Vines is right on the money. This is for a reason, a very good one. They have to move the liver out of the way to perform the banding. The less fatty it is, the easier the banding goes. Also, the duration/need for the liquids usually depends on your starting weight.

Here's my tough love. When I lost my fill last week (got most of it back tonite, thank God) & bitc#ed * & moaned about staying on liquids for a weak yet again, my nurse pract. pointed out that many people go for months on a liquid diet. Of course most gain it back, but it's just for a small time for us & then on to bandland!

The benefits FAR outweigh the inconvience/pain in the neck.

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My doctor said a three day pre-op diet, and that diet is to be only one meal per day. He said it didn't matter how much I ate at the one meal, just so long as it's only one meal. I would go crazy with 3 weeks prior and 3 weeks after.

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