pre surgery over eating

[Robin Lanzoni 1]

Have you tried EFT? That might help. It involves a series of tapping to various pressure points on the body. I've had some success in it helping with cravings. Check out Paul McKenna on youtube for the technique. There's lots of videos there for it.

Another thing you could try is some chia seed (salba) in liquid. That would fill you up without a lot of calories. You have to drink it right away though or it becomes a solid rather quickly. Drink lots of Water after as well. I wouldn't use more than a tablespoon of it at a time until you get used to it. Chia seed will expand to 9 - 12 times its size in Water and it has very little taste.

Another thing you could try is juicing vegetables. I often take carrots, lettuce, a cucumber, some celery, a couple of apples and a 1" piece of ginger - juice it and drink the whole thing quickly. That will fill you up immediately and the Vitamin content is incredible. Maybe you could say, "I give myself permission to eat that pizza but I have to drink THIS first." Then, after you drink it, the craving will probably be gone. If it's not, there still wont be much room left to endulge.

Hugs and good luck,

Robin

[MyTurn 0]

I have been eating like there is no tomorrow. I know that I shouldn't be...but...I can't for the life of me stop. I am so glad that I am having surgery on the 6th. I am hazard to my health..lol.

I start my pre-op low carb diet on Tuesday. So...hopefully....at the very least I will get my liver where it needs to be for surgery and I will deal with the weight gain post op. I know that I am dealing with the 'last meal' syndrome. I just didn't realize that I was going to have so many of them!

This too shall pass. I don't want to beat myself up about it. It is what it is.

[sadie_mo 2]

Don't worry about it. I gained 10lbs in a month before I had surgery. I ate everything. It would be Breakfast and I HAD to have IHOP omelette for the last time. lunch a whopper for the last time. dinner chicken Tenders from ________. Every day like that. At one point I wish I would have controlled myself better so I could be thinner now and not have to take those extra 10 lbs off. On the other hand I don't miss the food and didn't right after surgery. I don't

know if it's because I said goodbye but more likely it's just from the surgery it's self. I did have a 7 day low carb diet

before surgery that I very much stuck to. You don't want

your liver to be slippery and surgery to have to be put off

or your organs harmed.

Oh yea they said for my BMI I will need to do a 10 day pre-op diet and the last three of them clear liquid only. I think I will do ok with that because I know I have no choice because it is for surgery. I think my brain works like that because I couldn't quit smoking in my own but as soon as I got pregnant I stopped that same day.

[sadie_mo 2]

I have been eating like there is no tomorrow. I know that I shouldn't be...but...I can't for the life of me stop. I am so glad that I am having surgery on the 6th. I am hazard to my health..lol.

I start my pre-op low carb diet on Tuesday. So...hopefully....at the very least I will get my liver where it needs to be for surgery and I will deal with the weight gain

post op. I know that I am dealing with the 'last meal'

syndrome. I just didn't realize that I was going to have so

many of them!

Yea I feel the same way I am so glad I am not the only one that feels like this! It is however making me come to terms with the strange relationship I have with food that got me to this point if needing surgery. I didn't see it before and now here it is so hard to let go like it's a person nit a pork chop .

This too shall pass. I don't want to beat myself up about it. It is what it is.

[iegal 460]

I was guilty. My last meal was a delightful Fettuccini Alfredo with steak Milanese. YUM. But now, I go to the same restaurant 3 months out and sneak a bite or two from my love. Good, yes. As good as I remember? No. I think I gained weight during from my first consult to the time of start of preop surgery diet.

Tomorrow is a test to see how much you want to loose weight permanently. Stick to your preop diet, it is important. No cheating. If I could pass this, I have full confidence that you can too. Remember the goal. The results are amazing. A chin has reappeared. I am wearing a size I have not seen in over a decade or more. I can move easily and being active is actually fun. Yippee for the sleeve!

[LisaaaLisaaa 8]

Thanks everyone for the sound advice and words of encouragement. HOnestly I'm so sick of eating. I went out last night with hubby for dinner and couldn't eat it all. Today I am starting a liquid diet and tomorrow is my pre op class. So tomorrow i'll find out for sure what I really need to be doing. The doctor didn't limit me to liquids only right now even though my surgery is January 5th. But I am doing it for myself because I know what a pig I've been.

Once again thanks. I can't believe I'm getting sleeved in 9 days. Say what!!!

[sadie_mo 2]

I was just the opposite. I had watching what I hate for the months prior to surgery and I kept thinking the more I lose now, the less after surgery. I also wanted to improve my odds in surgery by being in the best nutritional shape for it as wall as shrinking my liver. I figured better to learn before hand new habits rather than struggling afterward.

Show off LOL I am trying to get like this

[sadie_mo 2]

Thanks everyone for the sound advice and words of encouragement. HOnestly I'm so sick of eating. I went out last night with hubby for dinner and couldn't eat it all. Today I am starting a liquid diet and tomorrow is my pre op class. So tomorrow i'll find out for sure what I really need to be doing. The doctor didn't limit me to liquids only right now even though my surgery is January 5th. But I am doing it for myself because I know what a pig I've been.

Once again thanks. I can't believe I'm getting sleeved in 9 days. Say what!!!

wish I was already going but noooooo I have to wait till Feb.21st but I am happy for you

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

What you are experiencing is VERY normal. I went through it before my banding, as well as countless others before their surgeries.

I didn't really indulge as much pre-sleeve though. The band if anything taught me a great deal of life lessons, even though I did lose and gained all my weight back. It taught me truly that getting WLS is NOT a death sentence when it comes to food. You will absolutely still be able to eventually enjoy all your favorite foods again. Just not nearly in the same quantity. And that is OK too, because once that happens you will see it's not about QUANTITY anymore - but about QUALITY.

The few tiny bites of your delectable will give you the same (if not more) satisfaction than it did when you used to scarf it all down in a few minutes time.

Be good to yourself and remember, the weight you can lose pre surgery is only going to get you closer to your finish line once you are sleeved.

We're all in this together, and throught it all - the most valuable lesson you are soon to learn is that we need to get a real "healthy" relationship with food. It's never to early to start.

[buchannon 17]

I went fuckin' crazy with food the month before my surgery. I was probably consuming 5k+ calories a day and it was great. I knew I only had a month left to eat and I made good use of it! My "last meal" was a binger at the olive garden on endless Soup salad and breadsticks.

Looking back, I'm glad I got some closure on food the way I did before the surgery (although it was obviously unhealthy). It's kind of comical that now, a couple weeks later, I'm only able to fit about 5% of what I was eating into my stomach.

[seniorsleever 17]

I can relate. I'm scheduled for surgery Jan 24, and am starting my dietary changes on Jan 1. (I'm having tests this week that require a high fat meal.) The doctor requires that I lose 10 pounds before surgery or he will CANCEL IT! Not gonna happen on my watch.

I have been eating my favorite foods and feeling very nostalgic about them. I want one more Mexican meal (my high fat meal) before New Year's but then I am ready to start the Protein shakes and Clear Liquids. It will be a relief in some ways--like finally leaving town on a vacation you've been planning for months. It will feel kind of good to purge my body of all those carbs.

Now that I am closing in on the date of my surgery I find myself eating an extra super amount of food. It is like something inside of me feels like I am never going to eat well again. I feel like a inmate on death row everytime it comes to eating as if I better make every meal count. I know in my head it is not truely the end of eating so why cant I kick that urge to eat like its the last supper ?1

[BlaqBeary 23]

Wow, what can I say. I have read all the post and I am not alone afterall. I am trying so hard not to go overboard with this eating I have develop. Im sure it is stress though. I need to get focused and stay prayerful that Gods Will Be Done. I am drinking Protein shakes daily, trying to remember to take Vitamins and trying to focus on eating habits. I know that journaling will help also.

Also decided to begin juicing, in that it helps with losing some pounds along with losing Water weight from the lower extremity edema issue. Total Water weight is 117% versus body fat at 73%. Hmmmmmm grhrgrhrgrgrh!!!!!!

I know I want this soooo bad and do not want to be turned away at my pre-op, which is the day before surgery. I'm not sure what my pre-op diet will consist of but I am willing to do everything possible to not come back home without VSG.

Now that I am closing in on the date of my surgery I find myself eating an extra super amount of food. It is like something inside of me feels like I am never going to eat well again. I feel like a inmate on death row everytime it comes to eating as if I better make every meal count. I know in my head it is not truely the end of eating so why cant I kick that urge to eat like its the last supper ?1

[bilka 6]

I am a terrible, terrible person! The surgeon told me not to gain any more kgs before surgery but I am evil and I have made a list of all the things I am going to eat before surgery! No way I am not going to gain weight!

It includes a meal at a fast food (it's funny, I live a 1-million-people city and we only have few Mc Donald's, no other types of fast-foods. Milan and Rome have a couple of Burger King as well and that's about it), a big steak with gravy and salad and a regular panna cotta. I guess for fast food and steak I will wait for my holiday in Florida in January, they are not really worth it here...

Terrible, terrible person!

[Peronella 2]

Bilka- dove 6? C'è un Burger King in un Autogrill fra Firenze ed Arezzo E' una malattia che sono informata dove sono tutti i fast food in Italia!

[bilka 6]

C'è un burger king anche a qualche chilometro da torino (la mia città) però non voglio guidare per andare a mangiare! E' troppo anche per me!

(it's just a conversation over BK locations and it's nice to have someone speaking my language, yeah!)