Pre-op diet

Sep 10, 2011

After all that dieting and working out at the gym for the past 6ths months (only to weigh in at a heaveir weight-- than I began with), I find myself more determined to lose it all.  I was really hoping that I would lose enough weight in order to avoid the pre-op diet "optifast".  Liquid diets are not my favorite, no matter how good anything might taste.  I hate the head aches, the crankiness, and the hunger they trigger.  So okay, I'm done bitchin'  I weighed in at 304 and I need to get down to 271 pounds before the surgery date.  So instead of playing around with this I just decided to buy 3weeks of optifast and get it off.  However, I still think that 33 pounds is a lot to lose in 21 days. 

So far, every things from the beginning of this experience until present as gone pretty smoothly (with the execption of having to give up the coffee)  < That was so hard to give up!  For the first week I felt like I wanted to clawl out of my skin!  But, I'm almost back to "normal" -- not wanting to sleep all day, the head aches are subsiding and my muscle pain is beginning to get a bit better (the doctors placed me back no NSAIDS) with the instructions that I stop them 1 week out from the surgerical date.    

I have two cupboards in my kitchen dedicated to the different diet phases that are approaching.  I have a cupboard dedicated to pre-op diet "optifast".  I have a cupboard dedicated to the "second phase" (1-2 post op) liquid diet.  And another cupboard for the "mushy diet" or Phase three diet (2-8 weeks).  

Our dietician announced that because of some complications experienced by a few other prior patients that we are only allowed "clear liquids" and protein shakes, ice pops/sugar free/fat free and sugar free Jell-0 for the first two weeks. 

I don't mind this restriction -- it's only for 14 days.

I  figured that because this past friday was the last day I would ever have anything "bad" for me "higher sugar, high fats" I would say good bye to those food items that were a problem in my past.  I binged!  I haven't had these types of foods for the past 6 months.  So needless to say, soon after I ate tons of pepperoni sticks, beef jerky, soda pop...I got sick as a dog and ended up spending much of the night in pain.    Never again...."really, never again....."

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