Dear Lord, I am struggling...

 So I am on my 2 week preop diet and struggling.  All last week I was perfect, today fell off the wagon and right into 5 guys for a burger.  I honestly think I need to put myself into counseling- I can't seem to hold it together when I am around the hubby on the weekends.  He is supportive, but we both just adore eating out together.  

Same with me and my hubby... he's super supportive, but we realized that one of our favorite activites was eating!!  I am in counseling to get to the root of my food issues.  I think it's an important part of this journey.

Good luck!

It's not so much that you had a burger at 5 Guys (love their fries!), it's that eating out is going to be problematic for a while. Once you're six weeks postop, you'll probably be cleared to eat what you can tolerate, but protein first and very small quantities. At I think nine weeks Monday, my eyes are still waaaay bigger than my sleeve. I was thinking how Applebee's 500 calorie dinners used to not satisfy me, and now they would, but I still can't eat them 'cause that's 80% of my calories for the day. Maybe I'll try one soon. Hopefully I wouldn't be able to fini****

My point, and I do have one, is: what will you and hubby do if/when you can't go out to eat? That's the kind of thing that we all have to think about preop: our postop life. It has to be different for the surgery to work.

Hugs, hon. Good luck figuring this stuff out.

I can totally relate this is day 2 for me for the clear liquids and high protein drinks, my surgery is scheduled for thursday Dec 15th and I am going crazy already, bad headache and just want to eat... I sure hope I'm going to make it until Thursday. Good luck to you, I know it is very hard..

 Hang in there!

I ended up just telling my daughter- and wow, did that make me feel better.  The only people who know so far is my sister, hubby, and now my daughter.  I am replinished, for now...

 We have talked about this a bit.  We both want to take up a hobby, but the only one that we wanted to do together?  Take a cooking class.  Sheesh.  We plan on taking more walks though.  This part has been wonderful.  Back when we first dated this was a daily occurence and I never realized how much I missed it until he started going with me over the last few weeks.  So, more walking!

 On the liquid diet, if you want to feel like you are eating you can use sugar free popsicles and sugar free jello.  The main point of the liquid diet pre-op is to deplete your body's store of glycogen, and let your organs shrink so that it less risky to operate around.  Right around surgery you want your stomach and digestive tract empty.

Id also suggest going to support groups.  Other people will support you and share their experiences.  If theres a psychologis led group that can be even more help.

So you fell off the wagon today... just make sure you crawl back into the wagon tomorrow and don't be down on yourself. We can't all be perfect all the time.

On a side note, when I made the decision to look into WLS I also decided to get into therapy. It has helped a great deal and I would highly recommend it!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 I too just started my preop diet 3 days ago.  It is a struggle but I have been in therapy for several months in preparation for this so that the emotions don't control me.  I am hungry!  But you know. . . it isn't going to kill me.  What is going to kill me is this weight.  Don't beat yourself up.  Just get back on the horse.  Best of luck to us both . . .

 Ha!  I guess I'm lucky we became so poor we can't afford to eat out anymore!!

We did the other night though, and I thought I made a good choice.  We had Chinese, and I had roasted tofu with vegetables.  I didn't eat any of the rice, and the tofu dish gave me a total of five meals!!

I would measure out 3 oz. of tofu and a few veggies and microwave - stuffed and happy.