Help! My family ordered pizza and I'm on pre-op!

[unbesleevable1 420]

i cheated 3 times on my pre op. I caught hell about it from people on this site. I did the best I could. I had my surgery on Monday and it went fine. I survived. Do your best.

[Bigbeaz 91]

I know its bad but I cheated a little 8 days before my surgery. I had some mexican food...no as much as I usually would have but I went off my diet. The doc said my liver was perfect and I still lost 25.5 lbs on my preop. The last 3-4 days are what really matter to get ypur liver to the size and consistency for safe surgery.

[Bob624 14]

My family made nachos the other night and I couldn't escape the smell no matter where I went in the house. Other smells of their dinners haven't bothered me, but for some reason the nachos was causing pangs of hunger. I used a trick we used in EMS when encountering very bad smells and rubbed a little mentholatum under my nose and that's all I could smell for the next couple of hours.

[Teachamy 1,042]

My pre-op diet recommends up to 5 Protein shakes per day. Maybe you could check with your surgeon to see if you could get in some more Protein?

I've been putting myself on a self-imposed/prepare yourself pre-op diet. pizza is always one of the hardest food to avoid while my family enjoys it. It's not merely head hunger, it's nose hunger, and body hunger too. I think you should get out of the house and tell them to recycle the box immediately and febreeze the house before you get home.

We're all behind you! You can do this!

[2Big2Skate 328]

I'm 7 days PostOp and last night my dad came over and brought a pie for the kids. I was stricken by the odor. It had me and it knew it. So I chewed a couple bites, spitting them into the trash each time. I even wiped my mouth out with a napkin lol.

The funny thing is, I have no hunger, and not thirst. What I put into my body is a conscious decision now. I actaully have to remind myself to eat on a schedule. And i'm totally loving that part. The smell thing triggered my brain, not my gut. I guess I'll be fighting my brain over smells for a while.

Be strong! Get to surgery as healthy as you can and you'll look back with pride as the new you doesn't have to struggle with that anymore.

[Butterthebean 8,146]

I know its bad but I cheated a little 8 days before my surgery. I had some mexican food...no as much as I usually would have but I went off my diet. The doc said my liver was perfect and I still lost 25.5 lbs on my preop. The last 3-4 days are what really matter to get ypur liver to the size and consistency for safe surgery.

Please I hope nobody reading this takes this statement seriously. Follow your docto'rs orders pertaining to your preop diet. The time it takes to shrink your liver is totally dependent on your liver and no one else's. If your surgeon thinks your liver is not sufficiently reduced come surgery time, a responsible surgeon will simply close you back up and you will have gone through the whole process for nothing. If he's cavalier then he could perform the surgery anyway, possibly risking a lacerated liver which can be fatal.

[LipstickLady 25,682]

Please I hope nobody reading this takes this statement seriously. Follow your docto'rs orders pertaining to your preop diet. The time it takes to shrink your liver is totally dependent on your liver and no one else's. If your surgeon thinks your liver is not sufficiently reduced come surgery time, a responsible surgeon will simply close you back up and you will have gone through the whole process for nothing. If he's cavalier then he could perform the surgery anyway, possibly risking a lacerated liver which can be fatal.

Amen!

[Arts137 1,811]

Rule #1: Life is unfair.

Rule #2: pizza are the Cosmos' cosmic joke for the Sleeve patient.

Rule #3: Refer to rules 1 and 2.

This will be the first of Many challenges that you will have. Maybe just think of it as 'them' catching up with all the extra stuff that we had before?

In any case hard is hard. Hard is not imposible. And you WILL feel good tomorrow if you can hold out. You don't need no stinking guilt! And follow Lipsticks advice. A fine excuse to curse.

[HotMessPrincess 39]

Kyrie, I hope you took a walk and got out of there. That's not very supportive of your family, I hate to say.

I don't expect my husband to never eat pizza again, but we've had serious talks about the pre-op diet and the weeks following right after surgery (I'm pre-op too)...and he's agreed that if he wants any of the foods that are tempting to me, he'll eat them out of the house and away from me until I'm in the groove with my new way of eating. And I've promised not to be overly sensitive about it...

That also includes his watching the food Network for hours on end. He's agreed not to get all snarky if I need to remove myself to another room and work on a hobby for a while.

You're just days away from an amazing journey...you're gonna kick butt at it! :-)