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I have not been doing good on my pre op diet and my surgery is in a week and my last weigh in is this week on Friday. My doctor said if I do not make weight then my surgery gets pushed AGAIN and I cannot handle that! Does anybody have any tips to lose weight faster on the pre op diet? I have 5 days! (including today)! Please help me! 
stay on your plan,period.
It's a great day to be alive. 
Don't eat breakfast. ;)
There is in fact very little evidence to back up the idea breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In fact, people who eat breakfast tend to eat more calories per day.
Don't starve yourself to the point you're ravenous and make poor choices but don't eat if you aren't hungry.
It's reasonably easy for a vegetarian because they can still eat yogurts, cheeses, dairy, eggs, etc. It's near impossible to be vegan and low-carb.
That said, complex carbohydrates from whole food sources are not your enemy. Avoid sugar and avoid highly processed starches like white flour but whole foods like beans, fruits, and vegetables are key to total health.
Fitday.com is great for calorie counting and nutritional info on common items (My Fitness Pal, Sparkpeople, Loseit are others) it's a little annoying at first to enter your info but most people after a few weeks find they eat similar foods and once you log them, you have them stored so the process becomes easier. It's a personal preference thing... most of those mentioned have free versions you can mess with and then upgrade for all the bells and whistles if desired.
If you have a personal recipe (or one from a web site) Google recipe calculator (and your app doesn't already have this feature) there are a bunch that can help you with this... basically you type in the ingredients of the recipe and then divide that totals (cals, fats, carbs, protein) the calculator gives you by the total amount of servings you get from the dish (it's not exact but close enough usually)
Your nutritionist/dietitian may have a site or calculator they prefer.
As for the meal planning itself... I'm a pen and paper girl. I do about 3 days out. It's a great thing meal planning... http://theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/2010/03/plan- for-success.html
Best to you,
Thanks! Mostly it's just night cravings for food, sometimes it feels like I didn't eat for a week. I do crave Swedish Fish too sometimes lol
For those of you that plan your meals ahead of time, what tools do you use? I haven't even had my first nutritionist appointment yet but I'm trying to figure out the bast way to plan my meals. I need something that will also tell me the stats of what I'm eating.
TIA
Sue
Sue
"I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I used to be"
Height 5'3, HW:315 (10/12/15), BMI 55.7
Orientation (12/04/15), W:312, BMI 55.2
Cravings are the worst for me. If I am craving something in particular I find that upping my vitamins helps. Usually you crave what you need, so research that thing and find out what the nutrition value is, what the strongest vitamin nutrient is in that food, then take more of that vitamin for a few days.
Example:
Chocolate is high in iron and magnesium but has little other vitamin value. So take extra magnesium and a little extra iron. (Be careful not to overdo iron).
This may help with feeling satisfied.
My doctor did not require me to lose weight before the surgery. I think if you can do it on your own, then why would you need the surgery? Seeing people struggle with a pre-op weight loss is difficult, but makes sense because it's to shrink your liver so they can do a laparoscopic procedure. Mine was an open surgery so my doctor did not need to dance around my liver to get to my stomach. The recovery was much more difficult as my incision was 8 inches long, through all of my abdomen muscles. Even a cough was excruciatingly painful without good meds. When you cough, your abdomen tightens up... ouch. Everything you do, every movement uses and affects your core muscles.
Plus there are other recovery issues to deal with when you have an open procedure, such as a hernia from improper healing.
Laparoscopic incisions are much smaller, but the surgeon is working from the inside, and your liver needs to be less fatty and easier to maneuver around.
However, take heed; once the surgery has been done, as one poster said, not following instructions CAN be fatal.
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