Hard Time With Pre Op Diet

JeSSie · January 25, 2007

Hi everyone...not even on the pre op diet yet that starts friday when i go back to nashville ..i really enjoy all the info, i am getting glad i was told about this site Jessie

susannah · January 25, 2007

Hi J, Don't be so hard on yourself. Rome wasn't built in a day. It takes time to change habits of a lifetime. Every marathon starts with small steps.

I am on three weeks of Optifast pre surgery. The first week is hard, then your body adapts to it.

Hang in there. Susannah

smatyas · January 25, 2007

Not only is the pre-op diet designed to help you lose a little bit of weight before your surgery, it is also to help shrink your liver so they can retract it to see your upper stomache area.

I would recommend you start immediately on that diet and hope for the best.

lessofme · January 26, 2007

Just attended 2nd. seminar. No pre-op in SLC...sounds bad enough afterwards, Clear Liquids, then mushy..anyway. You are all very dilligent if you are even attempting to stay on course pre-op. I take my hat off to you. :clap2:

I'm sure if our Dr.'s here don't even include a pre-op diet, it can't be any reason to delay surgery. Only thing they told us was that if we had any really bad habits, like too much diet soda's or beer drinking, we had better start now weaning off them.

I say, do what you can till the big day, enough stress afterwards.

unpainted · January 26, 2007

My Dr. said two weeks pre-op diet was to lessen the fst around the liver and stomach in order to make the surgery go as best as possible. sugar free popsiles and sugar free Jello pudding saved me during the day. Tipapia fillet at night with a green steamed veggie for dinner. Hang in there. After the surgery you won't be as hungry. Regards, Steve

christiana · January 26, 2007

Thanks for the replies guys. I am sure I'll still be okay and have time to shrink my liver. I started today and really wasn't too hungry to begin with! I just have had a lite n fit yogurt and am now working on a Protein Shake and am cooking a roast for dinner. I think the thought of doing the high Protein diet (I used to do Atkins...AND Southbeach) made me not really want to eat anything! :rolleyes: