Preop "the last supper"

[jamiemarie_11 18]

I have just got approved last week by insurance. Since I have been feeling like I need to eat my favorite foods before I start my liquid diet. Is this normal? I'm feeling guilty.

[lauraellen80 855]

Very normal! It even has a name--"food funeral." While having food funerals is not ideal, it's certainly a part of the process.

What I ended up doing (after a week or two of really going crazy and realizing that I was not doing myself any favors) was to choose one food/meal each day that I wanted to have before surgery, and I tracked it ALL in My Fitness Pal. The rest of the time, I tried to eat healthfully and took Water aerobics classes. So I still lost weight pre-op, but did have a chance to "say goodbye" to things like mac-and-cheese and nachos.

And when I did have those food funerals, I tried to eat slowly and consciously and really think about it as I ate. There were a few "favorite" foods that I realized really weren't that great, it was more the idea of them that I craved, if that makes sense.

Good luck, and congrats of getting insurance approval--do you have a surgery date?

[Cervidae 2,389]

Totally normal and nothing to be ashamed about, but like @@lauraellen80 did, when I ate my favorite things, I ate them slowly and tried to be really aware of why I loved these foods so much and to really make myself understand that some of these foods will not really even be foods I can eat again after surgery. Fortunately for me, a lot of my comfort foods aren't actually that bad for me. My "last meal" was grilled chicken and shrimp, grilled onions, and redskin potatoes from Applebees. That's not that different from the kind of food I'll be able to eat once my body has recovered. I'm two weeks and two days post-op. Congratulations on your approval! It's a really exciting time.

[ANewMe83 21]

Eat and drink everything you want before surgery! I remember I had Mexican food, sodas, strawberry and banana daiquiri, and frozen yogurt. And man was it ALL good lol! Good luck!

[CocoBelle 13]

Yes like every one says its normal! I had a month long food funeral! I wouldn't reccomend that though. Like someone else said, track your meals and plan your day around eating that meal. For instance, if your gonna have a unhealthy fatty meal at dinner, have a shake for Breakfast and a salad for lunch. Portion out your calories, carbs and fat accordingly and you won't do too much damage if its only a few days. I can say that before your pre op diet, reduce your carbohydrate intake. It makes the cravings during the liquid diet easier to manage. Once you kick your carb cravings, you can conquer the world! Good luck!

[mmek27 2]

My last supper the restaurant sent me the wrong entrée I was so pissed but ate it anyway and got sick. The next day was all Clear Liquids and surgery the day after that.... I'm a week post op now and had an ounce of thin mashed potatoes and that was better than any of my last meals. It will be ok and I'll be able to one day taste or even eat the foods I love again just not 3 portions like I'm used to. And I won't feel guilty afterwards it's a beautiful thing

[ginner1966 3]

I guess I don't understand the point of a food funeral. This is a life changing ordeal for me and I don't feel like eating all the bad stuff I like as a goodbye to it. Eating all that bad stuff worsens what is already a fatty liver and can make the surgery more difficult and higher risk. I need to make a change now to be successful. I don't want to be fighting breaking all the mental cravings a day after surgery. I'm getting rid of all bread, Pasta, rice and potatoes by the end of this week which is 60 days pre-surgery.

Edited September 7, 2015 by ginner1966

[choosehope 233]

God got the last laugh on me! I planned my food funeral pre liver shrink - steak, loaded baked potato, salad. Then I got the stomach bug!

My food funeral was ginger ale and saltines, but better than the real, in the ground funeral, I thought they were going to have to have for me by the third day of the bug.

[larac05 41]

I will be starting my 2 week liver shrinking diet a week from today. My plan this week is to enjoy some of my favorite foods and drinks but not excessively.

[LoseItKacy 347]

I last suppered so hard. And since I was pretty much liquid dieting for a week as a practice run I think my body thought I was starving it. So when I ate EVERYTHING stuck. I seriously gained like 3 pounds in a day. Not doing that again.

Wasn't worth it. I felt so sick.

[HappyValleyHappy 48]

My 'last supper' was a grilled medium rare rib eye and a salad with way too many things on it.

Heaven.

I know. Not horrible and actually something I don't have to give up.

Now my salad is grilled veggies along with the 3 bites of the rib eye I can eat. ????

[Dar200 285]

I started food funerals before my first appt with surgeon. By the end of the second week of sweets and carbs I was so sick all over that slowing down, changing directions and actually losing weight has me feeling much better than I have in months.

[DangerMouse007 105]

food funeral? That's a new one on me. About 3 weeks before my surgery, I went home to Austin, TX (I live in upstate NY now), and I went pretty nuts with all the goodness that is down there and can't be found up here. But like others I made sure that two out of my three daily meals were low-calorie and relatively healthy. Otherwise I went crazy with tacos, big ass beef ribs, the crawfish trio at Pappadeaux, fried catfish, the works. While I didn't lose weight while I was gone those 10 days, I did maintain my weight. As for my last supper, I went to a local Italian Steakhouse and had their 24 ounce ribeye. I'm pretty sure now I'm never going to be able to eat that again! Actually any of it in those quantities!

[Dar200 285]

Wow. I'm here in Austin!

[DangerMouse007 105]

Good deal! To be honest with you, if I still lived in Austin, I probably wouldn't have been so successful with my pre-op diet, and maybe even my post-op diet. Where I lived, there was literally a dozen fast food restaurants where I could stop on the way home or on the way to work to eat. I hated cooking and always went for the fast and easy. Plus, I mean seriously, the amazing food available in Austin is just way too difficult to pass up, am I right?

Where I live now in upstate NY, it's all rural; windy two lane roads, places where on the map it says it's 60 miles away but actually takes 2 hours to drive there...that sort of thing. There are only three fast food restaurants within a few miles where I live and none appeal to me at all (McDonalds, Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts). So I was forced to pretty much cook for myself and be more cognizant of what I was eating and how much. Oh, and the summer weather is downright fantastic for getting out and actually doing things like exercising instead of doing it in sweltering heat.