juny

Hey my surgery date is the 5th too! I'm on my liquid diet which has me all over the place. One minute I'm totally committed and the next I'm plotting how to get out of it w/o losing self respect. And then I think about having the leftovers from the last dinner I had. On this side I'm just not sure how I'm going to be able to do 8 weeks of liquids. I'm already sick of them and it's day 3 on liquids, I have another 63 to go. Good luck

how long were you on liquids for?

It might be low sugar, my dr recommended a couple swigs of some juice to get it back up if I was feeling like that. I did a little yesterday because of the headache but tonight I'm doing ok. Really not enjoying this preop, hoping for better things on the other side.

Yep, small office or not, they're creating a hostile work environment and they're not allowed to do that.

Yep I'm there w/ you. I'm on day 2 of liquids, roughly the same diet as you. Only protein w/ water only, stock and clears. I've had a bit of jello but it just doesn't taste like it's worth the trouble. I have sugar free popsicles i might have as well. I'm whining to anyone who'll listen and I already miss chewing. You're going to be ok, this part just sucks is all.

I've seen others not have to diet. The theory is that a diet will reduce glycogen stores in the liver which effectively shrinks the liver. Smaller liver=less chance of complication. Some doctors don't think it's going to shrink the liver in any meaningful way, so they just skip the diet and give you something to clean you out either the day before or the day of.

I feel your pain, I'm on day 2 of the preop. It's not as bad as I thought it would be but my outlook at this point isn't past my surgery date (feb 5). My diet consists of up to 6 protein shakes a day. I'm having 4 at work and then unjury chicken w/ some broth and a bit of a cheat w/ either sugar free jello or sugar free popsicles. I miss food and I'm starting to realize just how much food has entertained me and how much I enjoyed it. My friends are being supportive. They keep sending me texts with 'It's only 63 more days!' My doc has me on liquids for 8 weeks after surgery, so I just want to get get to my birthday, april 1, and see how it goes from there. At this point, I'm committed to the surgery even though I've lost a lot of the excitement that others still seem to have. This is a very serious surgery and I don't want to do anything that's going to put my life at even greater risk than I already am. If it's 8 weeks...then it's 8 weeks. Any diet you do before surgery will help, whenever you start, just do it and don't look forward and don't look back, just get through right now.

It's the 5th, today was a better day. Feels like I've got permanent Water belly though. This liquid thing is already old.

Well i'm a full blown mess. I start my liquid diet tomorrow. Bit off someone's head at home because they dared order papa johns pizza for dinner and I went out and got food from a great italian place instead. I was going on and on about my last meal. Everyone else will be going back to solids within 4-6 weeks. I will be on liquids for 8 solid weeks and then another month of transition back to solids. Believe me....the liquid diet I start tomorrow....is already making me crazy. Add to that the general feeling like if something goes wrong it'll be all my fault, yada yada. I really just need to be on the other side of this... I did my pre admission testing tonight...then i ate my gniocci and last bit of cake.... sigh. this is so hard and I haven't even had the surgery yet. What a freaking pity party i am.

I started my process back in May. I was absolutely ready to do this thing from June through the end of October.....It's not that I doubt myself on needing the surgery but it's just got me feeling like I need to be doing or buying something to get ready. I'm not having food funerals necessarily. I am having wine once a week instead of once a month because I know for a good while it's just not happening. I am doing things just not binging and I'm working out 4-5 days a week. Now I'm more anxious than anything. Do you feel ready?

did you take your measurements preop? it's possible that you're losing inches. A stall isn't unheard of at this stage. Get rid of the scale if it's making you miserable, just let the sleeve do it's job. There are other ways of tracking your progress.

My dr. is the same. clears for the first 2 then 3-8 are full liquids...having a hard time wrapping my mind around it, i'm preop. on this side of surgery i'm not really seeing it as possible.

feb 1 is coming up so faaaaaasssst! So the literature that my doc gave me says start the preop 6 days prior to surgery. My surgery is feb5...which is you know, getting here.... When he talked he said a week. So now I"m like. ok. a week or 6 days. now this is getting vitally important as I know i'm going to be on full liquids for 8 solid weeks, a day freaking does matter to me. Surgery tuesday...start this tuesday or wednesday. I know i'm being ridiculous and the more time i give to shrink my liver the safer but you know....i'm trying to kiss my brownies and italian food goodbye!

So have any of you got a second floor you're living on? I'm looking at post op and hoping I can go back upstairs to my room when I get back from the hospital, but if I have to walk a lot and stairs are difficult I may have to sleep downstairs.

my doc wants 2 weeks of clears and weeks 3-8 full liquids. I balked a little at this.....surgery is on the 5th

I have no idea actually, i saw it on a website and thought, he was adorable, so i stole the pic!

At least you know what it's not, I'm sorry your evening's been full of disappointment. Nothing is worse knowing something's not right and not being able to find the answer. Were you able to take anything for the pain?

I gained weight after the supervised diet ended. There was a 4month wait for the surgery and since then, the closer I got the more i ate. They didn't give me a hard time about it at the dr's office.

Yeah it's right up there with the cardiologist who said I wasn't going to last long w/ the stress test because of my short legs.

I went to my last set of classes before surgery. I thought I was going to be on a full liquid diet after the first couple of weeks for 3 weeks coming to a total of 5 weeks...yeah no...I'm going to be on full liquids from week 3 to week 8. My nut said the tendency is to have leaks at the upper portion of the staple line and since they switched to this slower re-introduction of solid foods, they've not had any leaks in their patients. My biggest, non-complication concern at this point is controlling the diarrhea or constipation while trying to work. I'm really hoping this will fix my hunger issues to at least get me through 2 months of liquid....no wonder people lose their hair. With the 2 month liquid diet, I really going to have to come up with something else to revolve around other than food! Oh this going to be so hard. When I met the surgeon today he told me that since i'm bottom heavy it's going to be even easier to do this laproscopically......................thanks...................I was 300lbs at weigh in today, he thinks this will get me down to 200, obviously my hope is that I can push for more but it did sort of get me thinking that 150-160 would be my goal, but realistically I've never been under 220lbs in my adult life so anything below that is just gravy.

I'm having the same issue, tonight I was asked,'what is the surgery going to do that a diet won't?' You'd think I'd have a better answer by now, but I mumbled something about how I just did. An hour later, I'm arguing to my computer monitor that the removal of the grehlin helps significantly as well as the inability to inhale huge portions. She says I'll never be able to have cake again....ok...and? It's a tasty thing but I'm rather tired of being addicted to the sweets and getting myself caught up in chasing the next sugar high (more like a sugar hill). It's so frustrating. I'm under a lot of stress over this as my surgery is on the 5th and this does not help.

For me it's the lifestyle change I think, at least in the short term. I'm worried about everything from constipation/diarrhea and how to have lunch w/ my colleagues to serious complications and what if I make a mistake choosing this surgery. Mostly I'm resolved....But I've had a lot of time just waiting for the surgery date so a lot of doubt and worry has crept in.

Yep I'm the same. I see people who keep saying they're excited like they're going to disney....I can't even comprehend that. I'm at the point where I'm just questioning whether or not I think I can do this. I'm looking at a lot of my life and thinking just how is this going to work?

I can relate. The last time my mom and I talked about this she said flat out that i would really regret this, somehow she insists that she's being supportive....right. It's just adding more stress to an already stressed out situation. Her opinion doesn't change what's going to happen but I hate going into it knowing I'm in for the 'i told you so'. Good luck, you're going to do great in spite of what your boyfriends mother says.

I don't know if I'd say I like being fat, but I do feel like being this fat protects me and isolates me from perceived dangers. I don't have to worry about being a target of anyone's because I subconsciously work very hard at being forgettable and being fat helps a lot, I'm just a part of the furniture in the room being 300lbs. I'm having surgery on the 5th which is getting very close and I know this is one of those emotional issues i'm going to have to deal with if i'm going to be successful.