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So today is my pre-op day 13- with surgery on Friday! Since Monday, I have almost no hunger. Maybe it's me not wanting the shakes, but I'm almost forcing them down. In fact, it's 1:00pm and I just realized that I've only had one shake today. i'm barely making the NUT's minimum Protein requirement. Is this normal? Should I not drink the shake if I don't feel hungry, or should I drink them no matter what?

So I always thought it would be interesting if people posted about their pre-op diets and how they feel each day- etc. So i'm going to do it, if anything for my own source of a diary. My Pre-Op Diet: March 6- March 19th. I am supposed to drink 5 shakes ( I am using GNC Lean shake 25) I must drink 64 Oz of Plain Water I can have gatoraide, poweraide and flavored water but they do not count toward my 64oz. I can have up to 2 cups of chicken broth per day. 1/2 cup of sugar free Jello per day. Sugar free Ice Pops 1 container of sugar free pudding per day. I have to have my first Protein shake within an hour of waking up, and then the other 4 every 3 hours after that. i have to stay within 800-1000 calories. Day 1: I had the GNC Lean Shake 25 Swiss chocolate Flavor on my way to work. It wasn't bad. (7:30am) I also had 24oz of water flavored with Kroger ORange Boost Water Flavoring w/ Caffine ( i'm allowed to drink this to battle headaches, but only 1 a day) at 11:30 I tried to get down the GNC Lean Shake 25 vanilla bean Flavor. No bueno. I must not be a vanilla person. Good thing I only bought a 4 pack! I got about 3/4 of the way down. and i'm now working on my first 24oz of plain water. I feel nauseous because EVERYTHING is so sweet and i'm not in the mood for chicken broth. My next shake is at 1:30. I will update this evening once I have all of the shakes in.

That Mexican food craving I had the other day? Back in full force. Lol. I'm also pre menstrual which isn't helping! Lol. I know I have what it takes for a successful surgery.. But I'm also human with food cravings!

I actually do better at work, than I do at home. I lose all self control at home! Lol. At least I feel like it, I haven't yet. But who knows. I'm really trying to stay 100% on plan for the next week. And I do love the change on the scale. But I would also really enjoy some Mexican Food!

That's exactly what I think mine is. Who knows. We don't have time for this!

Day 8: So i woke up this morning completely exhausted. Like to the point that I almost called into work. I had a headache, a sore throat and a runny nose. So i've been taking dayquil to try and combat it. No getting sick now! This time next week I will be sleeved. I'm definatly not hungry, but the head hunger is getting to me. It's the weekend and I feel like I can't do anything because I can't go out to dinner or out to eat. I also am not getting in enough Water and I know that. I really need to get it together! Less than a week left of the liquid diet! 10lbs down today!

Day 6: Easy peasy by the end of the day guys! All is well! My carb flu feeling was gone by last night. And I felt fine! I even had the energy to take my bubble bath, and clean my house! Day 7: FINALLY! I have reached that feeling that everyone talks about as far as not being hungry and growing accoustomed to everything. I feel great today, and i'm not tired at all! I have finally come up with a schedule that works for me, it's not quite my doctors schedule but well i'm still getting the same amount of nutrition in that they want me too. When I wake up: 1 or 2 depending on my hunger level Atkins Carmel Cafe Shake- I add a tsp of Toriani Salted carmel syrup and shake with ice. I make my own iced coffee! It's delicious. Around 11:00am- A premier Protein chocolate shake, and a sugar free Jello. Around 2:30pm: A GNC Lean Shake 25 in swiss chocolate, a sugar free jello. around 6:00: i'll have another shake if I am hungry or if i haven't reached my minimum 80 grams of protein. I often have about 1-2 Sugar free popcicles. CHEATING? have i cheated on pre-op. I have, and I did tell my doctor. I have had a total of 4 string cheese sticks the first couple days. and i've enjoyed a sugar free double choclate vanilla pudding cup almost every day. A couple days I blended some frozen strawberries into my shake. HOWEVER. Everything I've cheated with has been healthy.. and not to far off from what I am allowed to have. I'm nowhere near my minimum calorie goal most days of 800, and i've never been close to reaching the 1000 calorie mark. I've also stayed under my carb intake, and I have gotten my minimum protein in. Take it for what it is. Now that I am a week and a day away from surgery I will stick to the liquid only diet from here out. Plus at this point, I'm not even hungry. Down 8.8 lbs from my starting weight last friday, and a total of about 18 since my highest weight ever! Up until today it was so hard. I was definately envious of everyone who gets to incorporate food into their pre-op diet.

2 Weeks Clear liquids (sugar free Jello, Water, Powerade zero, propel zero, Vitamin water zero, crystal light) 5 shakes a day of my choice ( I do Atkins Cafe Caramel for Breakfast, Premier chocolate for lunch, and 2 GNC Lean shake swiss Chocolate) chicken broth, Beef Broth, Veggie Broth.

My inital appointment was 1/22/15. My insurance only required Psych and Nutriton. My surgeron required a couple other things. All appointments were completed by 2/5/15 and I scheduled my Surgery on 2/6/15. My surgery is 3/20/15- less than two months after my inital appointment. IT was very easy. My Surgeon said other than self pay- I am the fastest case he has ever had.

It truly is a struggle. I don't feel as awful now as I did this morning. And everyone says its a breeze around this time and I mean it's not the hardest thing I've ever done... But I definitely have a crazy food addiction.

I do too! The only think i wanted to do the last few days is to crunch something! It's weird because i'm not actually craving anything unhealthy. I would take carrots and cottage cheese if it meant I got to eat something. A lot of people say that it becomes recoutine and they don't care about food after day 3-4. That has NOT been the case for me. In fact the last few days my cravings have gotten worse. I went to visit my surgeon today for my final appointment and he said i'm going through my "carb flu" now. I don't feel well at all and i'm finally in ketosis. He said this shall pass in a day or two now.

I bought the sugar free popcicle brand with the grape, orange and cherry. Blech. They are to sweet and they taste very artifically sweetened. I didn't like them. SOOOO I bought the outshine sugar free popcicles in strawberry, tangerine and raspberry. They have 10 more calories and 2 more carbs, but i'm not going over my daily calories or cabs by eating 1-2 a day!

Day 4: This by far was the HARDEST day before me. I cried because i wanted to chew something. So i started chewing gum. I emailed my nutritionist yesterday and she was less than helpful. So I spent most of the night sulking. Lol. I'm not proud of my night last night, but whatever. I wanted a piece of plain grilled chicken SO bad.. but I didn't have one. Day 5: Today has been MUCH better. I'm definately staying on track today. I have been having 1 container of sugar free pudding a day, which I thought was allowed- and apparently it isn't. So no more of that as of today. Which stinks! That pudding helped me. I bought some of the Atkins Cafe Carmel shakes, and mixed in a teaspoon of the Torani Sugar free salted carmel sugar and blended it with ice. I think tomorrow i'm just going to pour it over ice for iced coffee. I've had my two Jello cups here at work today and I drank my lunch Protein, I had a premier Protein shake. I work in a hospital with a cafeteria full of amazing food- so being at work is hard. As if this morning, I am down a total of 6.6lbs!

So i'm day 4 into my pre-op diet. And i've gotten in the bare minimum of Protein in. My surgeon said around day 3-4 is when your body enters ketosis. I bought the urinalysis test strips and tested this morning, and when comparing the color on the test strip to the color on the box, I am barely one color up from the actual test strip color. I hope that makes sense. Anyways- were you guys ever in ketosis pre op? What day did you hit ketosis? TIA!

Day 2 Continued: I was good at my work event, and I didn't cheat. Last night sucked. My boyfriend ended up eating Wendy's at my apartment. I stayed satisfied but it was my head that started to get to me. I had a popcicle last night which was good. Day 3: I woke up today 4.2 lbs smaller! My boyfrienda nd I had a crazy busy day and a family party. I made a Protein shake before we went shopping. And on the way home we stopped at Frisch's Big Boy. I asked for just the broth from the vegtable soup. Which was SO good. We then went to a family party and were there for 5 hours, I totally did okay with everyone around me eating, but I didn't think we were going to be there as late as we were. So I took no protein. It's 8:00 at night and I only have about 42 grams of protein in I'm going to have another shake before bed.. But i'm going to chalk tonight up to a HUGE fail.