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So I start my pre-op, two week, liver shrinking liquid diet tomorrow. I had planned to start it today, so I am already cheating a little bit, not a good sign. The problem is, I was in the hospital for two days with what I thought was appendicitis, and did not eat any solid foods. I decided I needed an extra day to get my eat on, before giving it up completely. Besides, the paper the doc gave me says 10-14 days, so in theory, any day between now and Sun should be ok, but I wanted to be sure. I am afraid. I am not looking forward to not eating. I keep telling myself that it will be different when I get the band on and have to drink liquids for two weeks, because with the band I won't be hungary. But, I'm not quite convinced yet. :frown:I feel like I need to get a jump on things because I have convinced myself that I am the fattest person on this planet, and maybe others. I'm sure that this is not true, but I must be in the top 1-2%. Anyway, I feel like with all the extra fat, I will need a big jump on sjrinking my liver, as any part of me must be filled with fat. I am just thankful that I didn't have appendicitis, because, for one, that would have sucked, but mostly because I would have had to put off my surgery and God knows I do not want to that. So, when I was in the hospital, I had to miss a class. I am in this really intense grad program where everything is accelerated and we are not really allowed to miss any classes, but we are technically allowed one a semester. Any more than that and we lose attendance and participation points. I can't let this happen because I am kinda OCD about this and I have a 4.0 and I can't lose it or the whole world will end. So now, I need to hope that my surgery goes perfectly and I come home exactly on time so that I don't miss the 7 hour (yes, SEVEN HOURS) class that happens three days after my surgery (or two days after I come home) as this counts as two classes worth two attendance and participations, and I have a Monday night class 2 days after that. How does everyone manage life with all this?:thumbup: I feel like it is all I can think about and I can't focus on work or school or my house or family or friends. Anyway, I am worried about this liver shrinking diet tomorrow. I feel like if I had enough will ower to do this, I wouldn't be needing the surgery in the first place. I guess I just need to take it one day at a time for two weeks. That is what they taught my dad in AA and Na and this is an addiction right? At least it sure is addictive behavior. I guess this is all I have time for today as I need to get to work on Calculus. My house is falling apart around me, but I just came home from the hospital yesterday with the Appendicitis scare and still feel like crap, so screw the house, right? I can get to it when I feel better. Lord knows the mess aint going anywhere. I need to catch up on homework anyway, at least then I will feel like I am doing something.

So I called the dietitian at the bariatric that I am working with. She told me that I do not need to focus on all liquids as the instructions I was given said. She said that she has looked into the research on the liver shrinking diet and that the point is to get as much protein as possible and as little carbs, I have to stay under 30 carbs a day. Which means how I had interpreted the diet (drinking a lot of protein shakes) is not what I should do, as milk and any dairy has a lot of carbs. I need to eat plain meat (chicken, fish, ground turkey, etc.) and take protein supplements if I need to to bring my protein up to at least 60g a day. This sounds much better than all liquids, but now I need to rethink my approach. So, that being said, I am going to need to go shopping for eggs, fish, chicken, etc. I need to get unflavored protein powder that I can mix in with things other than milk and will still taste ok. I need to restructure my whole eating plan for the next two weeks and do something about the groceries that I just bought on Fri. As for the rest of my life, I am WAY behind in my calculus class, and I have to take a quiz online some time between Fri and Sun. WAY, WAY behind. I e-mailed my instructors about my missed class from Mon when I was in the hospital and still have not heard back. I am broke and the sub teaching jobs are hard to come by this early in the school year. Oh and I started yesterday and have cramps, Back to work. Maybe things will look better tomorrow.

So I called the dietitian at the bariatric that I am working with. She told me that I do not need to focus on all liquids as the instructions I was given said. She said that she has looked into the research on the liver shrinking diet and that the point is to get as much protein as possible and as little carbs, I have to stay under 30 carbs a day. Which means how I had interpreted the diet (drinking a lot of protein shakes) is not what I should do, as milk and any dairy has a lot of carbs. I need to eat plain meat (chicken, fish, ground turkey, etc.) and take protein supplements if I need to to bring my protein up to at least 60g a day. This sounds much better than all liquids, but now I need to rethink my approach. So, that being said, I am going to need to go shopping for eggs, fish, chicken, etc. I need to get unflavored protein powder that I can mix in with things other than milk and will still taste ok. I need to restructure my whole eating plan for the next two weeks and do something about the groceries that I just bought on Fri. As for the rest of my life, I am WAY behind in my calculus class, and I have to take a quiz online some time between Fri and Sun. WAY, WAY behind. I e-mailed my instructors about my missed class from Mon when I was in the hospital and still have not heard back. I am broke and the sub teaching jobs are hard to come by this early in the school year. Oh and I started yesterday and have cramps, Back to work. Maybe things will look better tomorrow.:thumbup:

So I start my pre-op, two week, liver shrinking liquid diet tomorrow. I had planned to start it today, so I am already cheating a little bit, not a good sign. The problem is, I was in the hospital for two days with what I thought was appendicitis, and did not eat any solid foods. I decided I needed an extra day to get my eat on, before giving it up completely. Besides, the paper the doc gave me says 10-14 days, so in theory, any day between now and Sun should be ok, but I wanted to be sure. I am afraid. I am not looking forward to not eating. I keep telling myself that it will be different when I get the band on and have to drink liquids for two weeks, because with the band I won't be hungary. But, I'm not quite convinced yet. :frown:I feel like I need to get a jump on things because I have convinced myself that I am the fattest person on this planet, and maybe others. I'm sure that this is not true, but I must be in the top 1-2%. Anyway, I feel like with all the extra fat, I will need a big jump on sjrinking my liver, as any part of me must be filled with fat.:thumbup: I am just thankful that I didn't have appendicitis, because, for one, that would have sucked, but mostly because I would have had to put off my surgery and God knows I do not want to that. So, when I was in the hospital, I had to miss a class. I am in this really intense grad program where everything is accelerated and we are not really allowed to miss any classes, but we are technically allowed one a semester. Any more than that and we lose attendance and participation points. I can't let this happen because I am kinda OCD about this and I have a 4.0 and I can't lose it or the whole world will end. So now, I need to hope that my surgery goes perfectly and I come home exactly on time so that I don't miss the 7 hour (yes, SEVEN HOURS) class that happens three days after my surgery (or two days after I come home) as this counts as two classes worth two attendance and participations, and I have a Monday night class 2 days after that. How does everyone manage life with all this? I feel like it is all I can think about and I can't focus on work or school or my house or family or friends. Anyway, I am worried about this liver shrinking diet tomorrow. I feel like if I had enough will ower to do this, I wouldn't be needing the surgery in the first place. I guess I just need to take it one day at a time for two weeks. That is what they taught my dad in AA and Na and this is an addiction right? At least it sure is addictive behavior. I guess this is all I have time for today as I need to get to work on Calculus. My house is falling apart around me, but I just came home from the hospital yesterday with the Appendicitis scare and still feel like crap, so screw the house, right? I can get to it when I feel better. Lord knows the mess aint going anywhere. I need to catch up on homework anyway, at least then I will feel like I am doing something.

I talked about the banding v bypass surgery. My doc said that some insurance companies will only pay for bypass for people with higher BMI's. He told me that he does not agree with this. He said that studies have shown that initially (within the first 12-18 months) bypass patients lose more weight, but that at about two years bypass and bandinf even out so that both surgeries lose about the same amount of weight.