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The last 5 days of pre-op diet



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I'll be heading out tomorrow for a 10.5 hour drive to reach the destination of the family reunion. Friday and Saturday are packed with activities along with a dinner Saturday night. Then I get to drive back on Sunday, do my 24-hour clears on Monday and sleeved on Tuesday morning.

At first I was quite nervous about attending the family reunion while on my pre-op diet. However, it just dawned on me that this will be a bit easier than I thought. The reason? Well, according to my pre-op diet, besides the 4 Protein shakes I get a day, I also get 6 servings of other "real" foods. The hardest part of this will be finding skim milk that I can use for my Protein Shakes (otherwise I am to have 5 Protein Shakes a day plus food).

The hotel has a free continental Breakfast each morning. Usually that will include oatmeal - which is on my list of foods that I can eat. If not, then maybe some fat-free yogurt. There is a restaurant near the hotel, so I can hit that for the dinners and have a garden salad (also on my list of foods that I can eat). While we are out and about, I could do the same thing for lunch - or if they have a veggie Soup or similar I could do that too. If the continental Breakfast proves to be a disaster for my pre-op plan, then I'll just hit the restaurant for that too.

This just might work! :)

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Nancy, sounds like you got this!!! Thinking things through and pre-planning always seems to keep us on track. I like how you thought of possible obstacles too! and a way around them! You'll do GREAT. Sending lots of good thoughts your way!!!!

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Thanks. I found the hotel and the restaurant next door both have 2% milk instead of the skim. Tomorrow, I'll try to find a quickie mart or something so I can get the skim. So far not too bad, although I'll have to find someplace else if I want Soup as the restaurant next door only has fat loaded cream based Soups. :( But, still, it's nice to find this stuff out.

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Nancy....how much have you lost so far? I'm just not losing on this pre op diet. So I think the until surgery on Monday I'm going to do nothing but shakes all day, no more food.< /p>

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I lost 4 pounds the first week. I'll weigh myself again on Tuesday before surgery to see the total. I had lost 5 pounds in the month prior to starting the pre-op diet.

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