10-day pre-op diet...OMG!!

I'm on a pre-op diet with pretty strict guidelines (ultra low-carb, high-protein) that is thankfully, not entirely liquid...calorie target just under 1100...

1. I never thought steamed vegetables would taste so good....

2. I'm expected to lose approx 5-6 lbs from this diet between today (27 MAR) and surgery date (4 APR).  Won't my body go into conservation mode instead of burning the calories?

It's not a knock-out factor even if I don't lose all that weight...although, on Sunday when I tipped the scale at 293 and this morning when I did the same at 290, I have some hope that it just might happen...

Any feedback/encouragement would be more than welcome...

I was on protein shakes for 10 days and lost 9 lbs.  You'll do just fine. 

 Thanks, Jack!!

Weighed in this morning AFTER drinking my breakfast protein shake and was down to 288, even...that's a total of 5 lbs since Sunday...if I can knock off another 4 before WED, I'll be rather pleased!!

Thats great!  Keep it up!  btw, I'll be in your city next week! Really looking forward to it.

I encourage you to keep,up the good work.
The first 3 days are the hardest, but they will pass.

The biggest part of this (in my opinion) is the compliance ... And the willingness to follow orders and stick with it.

It may help to take a warm bath, or have a warm cup of tea in the evenings ... Burst, floss and gargle and close the kitchen.

Go to bed early and get plenty of sleep.

You will be on the other side before you know it!!!!!

 My surgery date is TOMORROW march 29th, I wasnt on any special diet, only today i am have to be on clear liquid diet, and nothing after 12 midnight. But I have also lost 34 lbs since i started this process back in june of 2011..

 You can get threw this.. also rough at the beginning, but you are strong, and set you mind to this !!! keep us all posted,


rhonda

I have been on the same type of diet for about a month now.  The week that i decided to buckle down and follow it to a "T" I lost 6lbs.  I am only down about 12 and thats because it is VERY hard to stick with it.  Its a DIET and all of us have failed at those, and that's why we are in line for surgery.  I am so thankful that my surgeon does it this way instead of putting me on a 2 weeks liquid diet before!

286 this morning before my protein shake...another 4-5 lbs seems doable by next WED.

Psyched!