over eating prior to surgery

[KatrinaD 0]

Has anyone found themselves totally pigging out before surgery?? It seems like lately i keep eating and eating and i just can't stop..I know its psychological..it HAS to be...I don't want to say what i've been eating and where, but one thing is for sure...it's like i've been starving forever.

I don't know when my surgery is. I have to wait for the results of the stress~test.

[SwanGal 0]

My dr actually told me to eat whatever and whenever I wanted prior to the week of liquids! He said it's better than getting to the week of liquids and saying ohh I wish I had eaten this or that.

[MaryfromMI 5]

Between the time of my first PCP appointment and my first appointment with my nutritionist, I think I ate everything I could get my hands on and gained 4 pounds in a month. After that appointment with the nutritionist, I was told to either maintain or lose weight, but not gain because then I would have to see the nutritionist again. I am still kinda eating everything in sight, but I started exercising 4-5 days a week. I went for my surgery consultation today and I lost 4 pounds! I was so surprised! I agree with you, I do think it is psychological, because I keep thinking I need to enjoy things now that I won't be able to eat after surgery, but with working out consistantly now, I don't feel as guilty about it.

[Drasan 23]

I'm in the same boat as you! This is familiar behaviour to me.

Whenever I knew I was going to begin a diet, I would eat like it was my last meal(s) for days or weeks before. Knowing that I am preparing for band surgery I've fallen into this familiar pattern again.

My surgeon told me that he wanted me to lose 5 lbs before I see him again. I've gained 7. I don't know what he's going to say, but I hope this won't stop the surgery. I NEED the surgery to help me control exactly this type of behaviour.

I figure I will probably lose at LEAST 5-10 lbs on the 10 day all liquid diet. Won't that do the trick?

[ParrotheadCathy 0]

I sort of agree ... best to get this out of your system! Once the doc puts you on the pre-op diet, you need to make every effort to stick to it because the purpose of the pre-op diet is to shrink your liver so that the doctor has adequate room in which to work when he does your surgery. A poster that I haven't seen anything from lately (Restless Monkey) went for surgery the FIRST time and woke up with no band because she had not stuck to her pre-op diet and her liver was simply in the way! She had to go home do the pre-op diet and come back for surgery a few weeks later.

A cautionary story, I guess...but, like I said, that would mean it's best to get this out of your system now. And, please, remember this: You are not giving up the food you love for the rest of your life; you're just not going to be able to eat the portions that put you into the obese category that you're in. So don't act like it's the last supper!