Anyone cheat on optifast???
What's done is done, Maggie, you can't undo it and 4 days is enough for your system to empty, so you're fine. Don't beat yourself up, just pick yourself up and move forward.
But from here on in it is go time. Anything you have between now and surgery could potentially still be in your system. It's extremely important to have a clean system before surgery. Partially digested food in your system can cause life threatening complications. From here on in, you are doing Optifast to ensure a safe surgery. Don't stray again.
Ionce stuffed a handful of potato chips in my mouth and chewed then spit it back into the garbage, did that with an oatmeal cookie too. I ate 5 meatballs on New Years eve, I always had milk with my coffee in the am and I had one canolli about three days before surgery.
yep, the surgon called me on it, said that there was more fat than there should have been around my liver. Said I risked danger and made his job harder.
Let me be the lesson, stay true to the Opti.
Craig, don't beat yourself up over it. I completely ignored the optifast diet for the first ten days and continued an ongoing orgy of cookies, pastries, chocolate bars and other candies. I only cracked down during the last week before my surgery and my "last supper" was a fully dressed medium pizza from my favourite pizzaria that I consumed completely on the Friday night and Saturday morning just before my Monday surgery.
On February 6, I weighed 297.5 and when I checked out of the hospital on February 15, I weighed in at 303 pounds. It didn't affect my surgery and I suggest that I was the healthiest post surgery of the three of us who had RNY at the Ottawa Civic on February 13, 2012. I was walking the hall fifteen minutes after being brought up to the Trauma Unit post surgery and PACU.
I'm raising this because I have seen a couple of other recent posters concerned about momentary slip-ups and their potential impact on scheduled surgery. People shouldn't get all wound up about it and I believe most of the dire warnings about the need to absolutely follow each medical center's rules leading up to surgery are really to scare people out of otherwise self-destructive eating habits.
Make no bones about it. My eating behaviour immediately prior to surgery was reckless and isn't recommended to anyone interested in undergoing bariatric surgery, however it also means that you likely won't be kicked off the schedule for the odd slip-up and won't adversely affect the outcome of surgery itself. Mind you, I didn't tell the surgeon or support staff that I had been/was cheating.
In the 37 days since I've been home from my surgery, I have gone down from 303 to 269, that's not quite a pound per day. Ten more pounds and I will be back to my lowest weight achieved last year. After losing 130 pounds in six months on the Optifast Program ( 392 > 259) I sustained that weight for about a month before I started to gain the weight back. From October to January, I suffered from the "Oprah effect" and regained fifty pound in just three months. That was a good lesson on the hazards of falling off the program after you have effectively sabotaged your metabolism through aggressive dieting, with or without surgical assistance.
Lost 100 lbs in a year post op with a VSG. 
