Should I buckle down?
I have not been being very good, and eating and drinking my bucket list while I am waiting for a date. Am I sabotaging myself? I know what I have to do preop and postop and forever and am more than ready and willing. Maybe I just feel like the little kid and am not going to do it until I have too.
Although, with what I am hoping to be my approval dates and surgery dates, I am thinking about starting a modified diet 3 weeks before. What should I do?
Although, with what I am hoping to be my approval dates and surgery dates, I am thinking about starting a modified diet 3 weeks before. What should I do?
I think I would start making small changes now. You don't have to go on a really strict diet now, no. But eating as much junk food as you can isn't going to help you. Eat stuff you like, but in reasonable amounts, and eat more healthy stuff than junk food. Start focusing on protein so you can get in the habit, and also you'll be going into surgery with lots of protein on board, which will help you heal faster.
I think it's important to start changing your thinking. Not just you, but it's important for all of us. Our thinking helped us get heavy enough to need WLS. So that little kid inside that is saying I'm not gonna eat right until I have to, well, that kid has it wrong. That kid is never gonna have to. You will need to choose to. No one's gonna make you. So start telling that little kid that you want to eat healthy food so your body will be healthy. Give that kid treats, but in small amounts, or focus on healthy treats.
I think it's important to start changing your thinking. Not just you, but it's important for all of us. Our thinking helped us get heavy enough to need WLS. So that little kid inside that is saying I'm not gonna eat right until I have to, well, that kid has it wrong. That kid is never gonna have to. You will need to choose to. No one's gonna make you. So start telling that little kid that you want to eat healthy food so your body will be healthy. Give that kid treats, but in small amounts, or focus on healthy treats.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I had a lot of things I had to do to get my insurance to approve. One of the things was a 6 month diet program. I did very well on the program I did not get real hard core but still lost close to 40 lbs. When everything was over and I got my date I started my last meal process. I had about a week and a half of last meals. Everything I thought I wanted to eat one more time, I did gain a few pounds before surgery. I didnt have to do the pre op liquid diet alot of people do. I had clear liquds the day before surgery. It didnt hurt me to do it. Did it really help. No as a matter of fact it may have made the week after my surgery worse. The head hunger and cravings were strong. Do I regret it? Maybe, I could be 7 lbs closer to my goal than I am. I think either way its your choice,
I know all surgeons are different, but I would think the majority require some sort of weight loss before surgery. My surgeon wanted 10% of body fat to be lost beforehand. He put us on a liver reduction diet, this is to shrink the liver so that there is less of a chance of damaging the liver as they move it out of the way while operating.
If you are binging now, what will keep you from binging after your surgery? Even LS is not the magic pill most people think it is. You still have to make a conscious effort to eat healthy. For a few weeks I fell back into my old habits and went back to eating junk -- cookies, chips, desserts, etc. I was shocked how fast I gained weight! It sure woke me up.
Sounds like you need to work on your mindset, because you may be unconsciously setting yourself up for failure. But I hope not! :)
If you are binging now, what will keep you from binging after your surgery? Even LS is not the magic pill most people think it is. You still have to make a conscious effort to eat healthy. For a few weeks I fell back into my old habits and went back to eating junk -- cookies, chips, desserts, etc. I was shocked how fast I gained weight! It sure woke me up.
Sounds like you need to work on your mindset, because you may be unconsciously setting yourself up for failure. But I hope not! :)
Don't mistake my meaning, I am not gorging on sweets and carbs by any means. I am still eating what I consider healthy, but not restrictive.
Like, breakfast= 1/2 cup scrambled eggs with ketchup 2 pieces of marbel rye with butter.
Lunch = manicotti and garlic bread
dinner= bbq chicken breast, green beans, and 1 cup mac and cheese.
I realize that this is way more food than required, but some of my favorites.
I want to have some of each before my preop diet. Is that wrong?
I figure that if I get my date in the next week or 2, than I have a week for my bucket list. Crab legs, KFC, tacos, steak, pasta, pasta, pasta.
Man, I sound like a glutton but I really only eat 1 serving.
Like, breakfast= 1/2 cup scrambled eggs with ketchup 2 pieces of marbel rye with butter.
Lunch = manicotti and garlic bread
dinner= bbq chicken breast, green beans, and 1 cup mac and cheese.
I realize that this is way more food than required, but some of my favorites.
I want to have some of each before my preop diet. Is that wrong?
I figure that if I get my date in the next week or 2, than I have a week for my bucket list. Crab legs, KFC, tacos, steak, pasta, pasta, pasta.
Man, I sound like a glutton but I really only eat 1 serving.
As long as you're eating them in reasonable portions, I don't think it's a problem.
Remember, though, this is not the last time you're gonna get to eat those things. At least most of those things, you'll be able to eat after surgery, just not right away. So go ahead and eat what you like now, just don't feel you've got to eat as much of it as you can while you can. You're not saying goodbye to those foods forever.
Remember, though, this is not the last time you're gonna get to eat those things. At least most of those things, you'll be able to eat after surgery, just not right away. So go ahead and eat what you like now, just don't feel you've got to eat as much of it as you can while you can. You're not saying goodbye to those foods forever.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I am not gorging myself. I have never really eaten to the extreme the OMG I am so stuffed I can't breath. I eat til I am full, satiated and cannot staand another bite. Why am I fat? I make the wrong choicese---pasta, bread, butter, wine, pasta, bread, cheese, red meat. Yadadada.
I have preop classes on 4/3 and 4/10 and figure after that I am on track. FOREVER!
I have preop classes on 4/3 and 4/10 and figure after that I am on track. FOREVER!
Um, girl when I first read your post I thought you were doing what I did pre op, EAT IT ALL! I thought OMG I will never be able to have fried chicken again, I better eat it now! OMG I may never have banana cream pie again, I better have it now. I just ate and ate, until i could not eat any more.
Let me tell you this was pretty stupid, enjoyable, but stupid. First, it was stupid because I can actually still eat all the things I like before surgery, just a whole lot less of them. This surgery is not about what you CAN'T eat, it is about what you SHOULD eat. That I didn't understand pre op
Second, it was stupid because it made me even more addicted to food, and after surgery not only did I have to deal with the effects of that, I also had to deal with giving up food, cold turkey. It was so hard. I am almost a year out and I still struggle with it all.
I don't think, from what you posted about your diet, that you are eating anything to worry over. You mentioned in a post that "this is way too much food" but you have not had surgery yet, right. So no, it is not way too much food for a person with a normal stomach. And all the stuff you list are things you can eat post op, eventually. Well, Mac and cheese is not the best choice, but I will eat it, just a small amount of it and not that often.
Again, this is not about NOT eating, this is about eating...the right stuff, the right amounts. Worry about tiny portions POST op!
Let me tell you this was pretty stupid, enjoyable, but stupid. First, it was stupid because I can actually still eat all the things I like before surgery, just a whole lot less of them. This surgery is not about what you CAN'T eat, it is about what you SHOULD eat. That I didn't understand pre op
Second, it was stupid because it made me even more addicted to food, and after surgery not only did I have to deal with the effects of that, I also had to deal with giving up food, cold turkey. It was so hard. I am almost a year out and I still struggle with it all.
I don't think, from what you posted about your diet, that you are eating anything to worry over. You mentioned in a post that "this is way too much food" but you have not had surgery yet, right. So no, it is not way too much food for a person with a normal stomach. And all the stuff you list are things you can eat post op, eventually. Well, Mac and cheese is not the best choice, but I will eat it, just a small amount of it and not that often.
Again, this is not about NOT eating, this is about eating...the right stuff, the right amounts. Worry about tiny portions POST op!
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand
If you want to be honest...."I figure that if I get my date in the next week or 2, than I have a week for my bucket list. Crab legs, KFC, tacos, steak, pasta, pasta, pasta."
"ike, breakfast= 1/2 cup scrambled eggs with ketchup 2 pieces of marbel rye with butter.
Lunch = manicotti and garlic bread
dinner= bbq chicken breast, green beans, and 1 cup mac and cheese."
Who are you kidding? You need to visit a nutritionist.
I was on a liver reduction diet for 4 1/2 months and it didn't hurt me at all. It helped me get into the right frame of mind to follow the pst-op diet and start the weight loss.
Addiction to food is like addiction to anything else and can be self destructive. That's my opinion.
"ike, breakfast= 1/2 cup scrambled eggs with ketchup 2 pieces of marbel rye with butter.
Lunch = manicotti and garlic bread
dinner= bbq chicken breast, green beans, and 1 cup mac and cheese."
Who are you kidding? You need to visit a nutritionist.
I was on a liver reduction diet for 4 1/2 months and it didn't hurt me at all. It helped me get into the right frame of mind to follow the pst-op diet and start the weight loss.
Addiction to food is like addiction to anything else and can be self destructive. That's my opinion.
Why do you assume she's addicted to food? Or that she hasn't seen a dietician?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
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