Food aversion during 90 day diet?

[Learningtolive 109]

I'm only a week into my 90 day diet for insurance approval. I have food aversion like you wouldn't believe, eating has become a chore and some days I have only taken in 800 calories because I'm just not hungry and it's difficult to force myself. I know this sounds silly and it's so early in the game. I'm on a 1200-1500 calorie diet with 90g of Protein as the goal. I get the protein for sure, but again I am having issues with the eating aspect.

[Dar200 285]

I've had the same problem. For me I think it has to do with my carb addiction. When I eat high Protein low carb I feel energized and healthy for about a week. Then I don't want to eat all that protein and I feel like I'm being bad if I eat carbs. meat will just sort of gross me out. It happened in my second week and I started feeling so weak, and I noticed in my food journal I was down to about 700 or 800 calories a day I thought, this is not good for me. I can't go into surgery feeling this rotten. So I stated adding some carbs back in, then more protein and it took about a week for me to feel ok again. The thing that helped me the most was to add another one or two protein drinks to each day. I ended up losing 17 pounds. In four weeks. I stumbled on what really worked for me. The shake I always have is chocolate Premier Protein. I'm on my last week before surgery and that is what I'm having each day along with small serving of veggies and some chicken or turkey. My surgeon usually has someone on the pre-op diet for two weeks but told me to do one week and he's ready to do the surgery. I hope it goes well. Have you found a Protein Drink you like yet? I tried Isopure grape frost yesterday. So good. Both the Isopure that comes in fruit flavor sand the Premier Protein are ready made. No mixing involved. I guess I had heard that fluids, protein and Vitamins are the areas that are critical after surgery so much that I just headed that direction. I hope this helps you some.

[Learningtolive 109]

Yeah maybe Protein drinks may be the answer. I went to Whole Foods, perused their Protein shake section and chose samples of ones that met the requirements. Some have been super nasty but a few I liked. I'll try the Isopure though for sure. I'm eating like I've already had the surgery but I definitely need more calories in me. Going to start my Vitamins this week because I know that'll make me feel better too.

[Dar200 285]

I thought I would try adding in the Protein drinks because I'll be using them a lot pre-op and post-op. I'm just glad they did the trick for me.