Howdy Y'all,
    This is how I did it....  I just kept thinking about my doctor who said if he gets in there and my liver hasn't shrunk, he had to just close and not do the surgery.  A lot of the whole only shakes thing is to get your liver to shrink, so think about going in there, getting put under, cut open, then... whoops, not good enough.  Closed up and having to try again in another month.

    I don't mean to be grosse, but that's what kept me going.  Also, I had a Sugar Free Chocolate Fudge Popsickle before I ate anything I was craving.  The week before surgery I couldn't have the chocolate; so instead, I had SF Strawberry Popsickles.  They weren't as good, but they took a while to eat and by the time I was done, I was usually better.

     I hope this helped a bit.

Hang in there!  God Bless you!!

Maranathas