Depressed and need my girls...

And that is my biggest fear!Maybe I needed to hear that to pull way deep down in that far away place where the "will power" is buried. Thanks for the kick in the butt!

Listen, you are WAAAY ahead of me as far as dieting preop.  My surgeon just required an overnight fast.  I truly admire your strength and resolve in sticking to a liquid diet all day long!!  I think you are doing awesome.  You are being hard on yourself, but that isn't really your fault  - your surgeon has put you on a very stringent preop diet that anyone would have a hard time following!!  I think you got some great advice already -  do the protein shakes during the day, when it's easy for you, and then plan a healthy, light, protein-packed meal for the evening. 

Just do the best that YOU can do!!  This is probably harder than anything you will go through after the surgery!

Thanks Linda...I love my surgeon but I HATE this fasting!

 On my 14 day pre-op diet I was allowed two protein shakes and one meal of 3 ounces of lean meat, fish, or chicken with one plain vegetable. I asked someone why it was so hard to eat like that and the answer made sense. You know you can still eat huge quantities and hate missing all those "last suppers".

I wasn't perfect, but I did stay as close as I could, until the Saturday night before my Tuesday surgery. I stopped on the way home and bought a small bag of buttered popcorn from my favorite movie theatre. Paid the outrageous sum of $5.50. I think if I didn't give in to one thing, I would have binged the next two days.

I have a bit of the rebel in me, but that one crazy act seemed to calm me. Now that I have had the surgery, it is so much easier. You literally CANNOT EAT LIKE YOU USED TO!!!!.

You will have a tool to serve you. I doubt you have screwed up too badly in the pre-op stage and after surgery you won't have the same drive to eat. Yes, I get hungry, but 1/4 c. cottage cheese feels like a feast. An extra bite and I suffer, so you learn your limits.

I still am searching for a good tasting protein drink, like the "Holy Grail". But I am learning to get it down like the medicine phase of my weight loss. That was Kim's suggestion and I have taken it for myself.

Your surgeon's book has been on my nightstand for months and has helped me. You have a wonderful opportunity and I know you'll make the most of it. Don't be so mean to yourself. You wouldn't do it to one of use here on the board. Good health and come to the loser's bench on New Year's Eve, the day after your surgery!!!

Thanks Wendy...I am going to do the 2 shakes during the day and lean protein at night. I think that will help tremendously. Everyone here has told me that not eating after is MUCH easier...thank goodness! I love his book too. I've read it twice. He really is as wonderful as the book portrays him. He answers emails and gets on our weight loss board to answer our questions or just pop in and see how we are all doing. I just love him!!!

(((HUGS)))  You are NOT a failure and this DOESN'T mean that you aren't ready for surgery.  I only had to do a 3 day pre-op diet and I couldn't handle it.  BUT, after surgery it was not a problem.  Eating food was just not an option and I didn't really feel like eating anyway and I was way too scared of messing up my new tummy to stray from the food progression.  And, even though I still get hungry (lots of VSGers lose all hunger) I could totally, without a doubt, follow any "diet" you put in front of me because the ravenous hunger is gone and the option of pigging out is gone.  Everything is just so different after surgery and you won't be able to understand that until well, after you have your surgery.  You will do fine once you have your surgery...I have no doubt about it.  I'm so sorry that you are having such a rough time...I really, really feel for you.  I am in the camp that thinks it's absolutely ridiculous to ask someone (especially a lightweight) to be on a liquid diet for 2 or more weeks. :(  Hang in there Sweetums...this too shall pass.

Thanks Kimberly...It has been so hard and I don't understand the purpose for 2 weeks either! It seems like I need to quit worrying about afterwards or worrying at all. God has got me this far and you guys are keeping me here!! Thank you for all your support, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I do feel better after hearing from everyone. Like having my own little cheering section who won't let me give up. I love it!

I promise that I wouldn't have been able to do a 2 week liquid diet at all.  Never.  I didn't have that willpower then.  My surgeon only required a 2-day clear liquid diet, mostly to cleanse the colon, not for weight loss.  

You've gotten great advice here.  So I don't have any.  Just letting you know that as far as the "why can't I stay on it when everyone else can???" part - that "everyone else" certainly wouldn't have included me.  That's why I had my RNY, so I could have help in applying discipline.  And, as you've seen, I do!  I have discipline now.  

Hope that's helpful, hon!

It does! Thank you...I am doing much better tonight! I am just going to do the very best that I can.

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