A better day

Feb 12, 2011

Today is Day Four on the pre-op diet and it's been a better day.  Ketosis has finally kicked in and that's helping.  I still don't like those shakes and I'm doing everything I can to avoid them!  I had half of a mixed berry shake for b'fast.  That was all I could manage to swallow.  Had several glasses of water.  Then I had half a protein bar.  I only have 2 more of them and I'm trying to make them last.  That held me to about 2 o'clock.  Then I fixed my optifast soup.  I'm getting really creative with that one.  Today I heated a can of Progresso Light Vegetable Barley soup, then I strained the broth and threw all those delicious looking veggies away like a good girl!  I mixed the tomato soup powder with the hot broth.  Mmmmm.  Delicious. 

Tonight I am going to have some plain baked chicken with my milk.  I looked it up.  I can have a small portion of chicken breast (noty the whole thing) for about 120 calories and 24 grams of protein.  That's more calories than the tuna I've been having, but also way more protein. 

I figure since I'm supposed to be having 4 of those blasted shakes a day, it will be okay for me to substitute some chicken (or tuna) for one of them.  I might be wrong, but I can't see the harm.  I'm taking all of my vitamins and supplements.  I'm not going over the calorie limit.  And I'm not eating fat or carbs.  I think it's okay.

Please understand, if I could drink the shakes, I would.  I want to be compliant.  But when the sight and smell of them make me nauseous, I think I have to find another way.  The point of the pre-op diet is to enter a fat burning stage (ketosis) to toughen up the fatty liver.  I'm doing that.  The point of the protein is to make sure the body burns fat and the blood sugar level stays even.  I'm doing that. 

Regardless, I'm just doing the best I can with what God gave me!

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