Liquid Diet -- dealing with??

Hi, I'm on day 3 of my liquid pre-op diet and while I'm fine now, I'd love some back-up plans. What did anybody who was on the liquid diet deal with cravings? How did you get out of the house or keep driving when food is giving you the evil eye? 

How is this useful for a liquid diet?

The thing that helped me was to stay really busy during my pre-op diet.  If I was distracted, I didn't have as much time to think about food.  I also made sure that I had a protein shake with me every time I left the house, just in case.  

It sucked, but I focused on the end result to stay strong.  

Chicken or beef broth in a thermos travel mug. Swanson is best. Low sodium. Better flavor.

I used regular, not low sodium, beef broth.  Only low sodium was on my docs plan but that stuff was the worst tease ever.  Smelled awesome.  When I tasted it I figured out that when they removed the sodium, apparently they removed the flavor as well.

The thing that helped me the most was talking to people who followed the pre-op diet and looking at their results.  I had to drink 4 of these New Direction shakes a day.  I would have rather taken a baseball bat to the most sensitive parts of my body.  Gross, artificially flavored nasty dust.  I wanted to run out an buy a different kind of shake or maybe eat a protein bar instead.  Every time I would log onto YouTube and watch the surgery being performed.  Once you see how easy the doc can retract that nicely shrunken liver, it makes those shakes more tolerable.  

So I kept on my program (despite my wife making cupcakes for my ambulance crew) with the exception of the broth.  When I saw my surgeon after surgery he made a point to tell me I did a great job on the pre-op diet.  My liver was small and easy to get out of the way.  Apparently some of the other folks from my program that were operated on that day had clearly cheated on their pre-op program which made he surgery harder for the doctor.

You can have the best surgeon in the world, but our part of doing the pre-op diet is so important.  The smaller you can get that liver and the more fat you can lose prior to surgery, the more room the surgeon has to work and the better a sleeve he can make.

It is tough making these changes but stay strong and keep on the diet.  This tool only works if we follow the program.  I am thrilled with results so far.  I have been 98% compliant.  I'd deduction 2% for full-sodium broth.