biginjapan

I added you as a friend, if you don't mind. I'm not on the pre-op yet, probably won't be for another couple of months (going through insurance) but my head is telling me to have a food funeral. I'm doing my best to not. I'm trying to develop great habits now. How long are you on your pre-op? 2 weeks?

Because of my BMI, I'm on it for three weeks. Luckily, it's not liquids only, as I am allowed 2 small meals a day. I've been losing every day except today :-( but 10 pounds in 3 days is pretty good. I want to try to keep my calories at about 1000 per day. When I hit my second week, I'm going to try to go to one meal a day with protein, and the rest just shakes. I'll keep that up until I get to L.A., as then I'll be on liquids only (3 days pre-op). As for my food funerals, it wasn't exactly like that. I didn't want to throw too much food out, so I tried to eat and make things from what I had at home that I knew I wouldn't be able to eat again for a very long while. But I did splurge on nice chocolates (like Lindt), had a big meal of sushi, etc. I couldn't do a food funeral like most, because it's hard for me to find the things I really like here - like good pizza or lasagne or cheesecake...so my last full meal was a non-event, just eating some salami and as much cheese as I could handle from my fridge (still ended up throwing some out - I know I can eat it post-op, but the expiry dates wouldn't last that long.)