Liquid Diet and feel like Im Grieving

Hello, I started my liquid diet Saturday my surgery is on 7/11 and suddenly on Sunday I started to tear up crying and I was so confused and just full of anxiety. I told my husband this is so weird I want this so badly for years and here I am getting ready for all that it entails and I'm crying as if I am about to lose myself so I went online and heard this is common it is like I am grieving me.

Has anyone gone through this? I have been heavy all my life I cannot remember being a thin girl so to think this is possibly going to disappear I am happy and sad so crazy?

Thank You

I think you are not able to rely on eating the food plus you are probably detoxing from all the carbs. It does suck, but the longer you are off of them the better.

Have you been to support group locally? that can help, so can therapy.

Sadly the next support group meeting is in July week after my surgery. Today is my 3rd day liquid diet so I'm hoping it gets easier as time goes by.

This is a HUGE life change, and one you pretty much can't undo. It's absolutely normal to be emotional and scared and worried and a huge ball of nerves.

For all the reading and research we do ahead of time, life post-op is a Great Unknown that you can't totally figure out until you get there. Many of us struggle, and you'll actually find a lot of people who end up working with a counselor or therapist to help figure everything out. That's normal and absolutely OK.

You can do this. Hang in there!

I felt the exact same way -- and I felt that way during the liquid post-op phase as well! Don't worry! It gets much better! Just keep the faith!

Thank You so much I appreciate it I was just hoping it wasn't only me feeling this awkward.

Oh boy you are so not alone.  I grieved the loss of a lifelong companion. Who wouldn't? Except someone on this forum told me it was a very unhealthy companion. That shook me up good! That has stayed with me. Grieving is a process. There are times I want crap but then I reflect on what I have learned on this forum and make the decision to succeed, not acquiesce to the craving. We all go through this. 

Great comment, Wyldspirit ... I have struggled with food for about 20 years. It's been a constant companion, but a very unhealthy one. I gained a lot lot lot of weight and I'm now an isulin-dependent type 2 diabetic. I am planning to have RNY surgery in September, and I pray that I will remember how unhealthy that food "companion" turned out to be. I think that this website and all the contributions on here will probably be a godsend when the cravings and doubt**** I can sense it already IS a help!

Thank You so much for sharing I felt like a child I have never ever been thin so to me this process is so surreal and when I think I tear up and I know this is for the for me my life my health but still so hard to let go of me. It is good to know that I am not alone I thought I was losing it.