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My personal pre-op diet experience!
Oct 25, 2011
What kind of a diet?
~~~a 4 weeks skim milk diet
What side effects if any?
~~~ it was giving me low blood sugar/dizziness/nausea. The dr ok'd add protein powder in low amounts, It has helped, Also the sugra free coffee syrups were making me sick, sugar alcohols dont agree with me!!
How much weight loss?
~~~18 so far, yes i cheated a little
Love it/Hate it?
~~~Both, It is super tough mentally, having no variety does something to your brain and makes you feel kind of deprived, head hunger was awful!! Had trouble even grocery shopping for family. My husband has generously been doing all the cooking and even making my son's lunches so i can focus on me and not have to look at food! on the other hand there is a certain freedom in just drinking milk. I also had a mini breakdown and learned alot about myself and what causes me to eat. it was super enlightening and i am hoping will make after surgery easier!
Have you learned anything from it?
~~~I eat at certain times of day for now reason, in front of computer, out of boredom or nerves. Cravings are for the most part mental and when i think i can't stand it any longer and have to have food, I drink milk and feel full, i learned that i can be satisfied with anything that nourishes my body.
Do you recommend it?
~~~Oddly yes, with dr supervision
How have you coped?
~~~I think i went through a grieveing process with food, it was like a breakup. denyed i needed preop diet because i thought i knew everything about dieting. tried to bargain with my eating and straddle the fence. accpeted it felt good about it at first because i was doing the right things. got angry and depressed had a mini hissyfit. now i have accepted and embraced it and dug in to get through it.
my advice meditate, listen to music, do whatever it takes to get through it. "cheating" is a slippery slope and leads to alot of guilt and lost time. take advantage now because the lower your preop weight the lower your ending number, believe it or not at this high of a weight it is easier to lose weight than after you lsoe 100 pounds! enlist your family and friends by asking them to cook, or do activites that arent food related. finally love yourself enough to choose yourself over food!
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~~~a 4 weeks skim milk diet
What side effects if any?
~~~ it was giving me low blood sugar/dizziness/nausea. The dr ok'd add protein powder in low amounts, It has helped, Also the sugra free coffee syrups were making me sick, sugar alcohols dont agree with me!!
How much weight loss?
~~~18 so far, yes i cheated a little
Love it/Hate it?
~~~Both, It is super tough mentally, having no variety does something to your brain and makes you feel kind of deprived, head hunger was awful!! Had trouble even grocery shopping for family. My husband has generously been doing all the cooking and even making my son's lunches so i can focus on me and not have to look at food! on the other hand there is a certain freedom in just drinking milk. I also had a mini breakdown and learned alot about myself and what causes me to eat. it was super enlightening and i am hoping will make after surgery easier!
Have you learned anything from it?
~~~I eat at certain times of day for now reason, in front of computer, out of boredom or nerves. Cravings are for the most part mental and when i think i can't stand it any longer and have to have food, I drink milk and feel full, i learned that i can be satisfied with anything that nourishes my body.
Do you recommend it?
~~~Oddly yes, with dr supervision
How have you coped?
~~~I think i went through a grieveing process with food, it was like a breakup. denyed i needed preop diet because i thought i knew everything about dieting. tried to bargain with my eating and straddle the fence. accpeted it felt good about it at first because i was doing the right things. got angry and depressed had a mini hissyfit. now i have accepted and embraced it and dug in to get through it.
my advice meditate, listen to music, do whatever it takes to get through it. "cheating" is a slippery slope and leads to alot of guilt and lost time. take advantage now because the lower your preop weight the lower your ending number, believe it or not at this high of a weight it is easier to lose weight than after you lsoe 100 pounds! enlist your family and friends by asking them to cook, or do activites that arent food related. finally love yourself enough to choose yourself over food!
Confessions of a liquid diet
Oct 17, 2011
Ok, so i FREAKED the FLIP out Monday morning!
I had my pre surgical appt today. I had lost 13 pounds in 13 days, had some bathroom issues, will power issues and gained 5 back. I was waiting for my dr to open so i could cancel my appt and reschedule for next week. Hoping to give myself some more time to get it together.
I had a major attack of nerves realising that I was only 2 weeks away from surgery and felt like a hot crying mess! My friend saw my panicked facebook post and called me at 7:30 this morning. She had surgery 2 years ago and gave me a huge pep talk, I cried and confessed that i had cheated on my skim milk diet and although I had nothing but skim milk for 9 days i faltered. She told me that she realised over the weekend that i had 2 weeks left and figured I was flipping out. Assured me that it is normal and lots of people flip out at this point, it is a huge change! also reminded me that i had lost 65 pounds so I wasnt a total failure and had even lost a net of 8 the last 2 weeks. So i got a grip.
At first the milk was ok but then it was making me really dizzy and nauseous. Then i started being unable to go to the bathroom and stopped losing and actually gained a few back. I kept craving protein!
Day 10= a chicken breast
Day 11= a hard boiled egg
Day 12=a low fat peanut butter and sugar free jelly, hoped the grainy bread would "move" things!
Day 13=a weight watchers ravioli meal
I was convinced my surgeon would cancel my surgery and I was screwed and the worst person ever.
Well my friend talked me off the ledge and I went to my appt. My Dr. was ok with my weight loss. She helped with alot of my nervousenss and was very supportive. I told her how I had been craving protein and the milk makes me shaky and dizzy and nauseous, She said to stop my metformin the milk was making me hypoglycemic.
She said I could add some protien powder, thank God!!
I mixed my skim milk with 2 scoops of powder in a big jug for the day. i am drinking less milk to equal the amount of calories it adds. I could kick myself, even a couple of bites of food makes it really hard to get back on the liquids completely. so here I go again, the 3-4 days of suffering before my brain stops having a tantrum.
i call this day 2 take 2 of total liquids, I did it before, I can do it again! Besides I learned a valuable lesson.
You can't have a Peanut butter and jelly pity party every time the scale doesn't go your "weigh". That is how I got in this mess in the first place.
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I had my pre surgical appt today. I had lost 13 pounds in 13 days, had some bathroom issues, will power issues and gained 5 back. I was waiting for my dr to open so i could cancel my appt and reschedule for next week. Hoping to give myself some more time to get it together.
I had a major attack of nerves realising that I was only 2 weeks away from surgery and felt like a hot crying mess! My friend saw my panicked facebook post and called me at 7:30 this morning. She had surgery 2 years ago and gave me a huge pep talk, I cried and confessed that i had cheated on my skim milk diet and although I had nothing but skim milk for 9 days i faltered. She told me that she realised over the weekend that i had 2 weeks left and figured I was flipping out. Assured me that it is normal and lots of people flip out at this point, it is a huge change! also reminded me that i had lost 65 pounds so I wasnt a total failure and had even lost a net of 8 the last 2 weeks. So i got a grip.
At first the milk was ok but then it was making me really dizzy and nauseous. Then i started being unable to go to the bathroom and stopped losing and actually gained a few back. I kept craving protein!
Day 10= a chicken breast
Day 11= a hard boiled egg
Day 12=a low fat peanut butter and sugar free jelly, hoped the grainy bread would "move" things!
Day 13=a weight watchers ravioli meal
I was convinced my surgeon would cancel my surgery and I was screwed and the worst person ever.
Well my friend talked me off the ledge and I went to my appt. My Dr. was ok with my weight loss. She helped with alot of my nervousenss and was very supportive. I told her how I had been craving protein and the milk makes me shaky and dizzy and nauseous, She said to stop my metformin the milk was making me hypoglycemic.
She said I could add some protien powder, thank God!!
I mixed my skim milk with 2 scoops of powder in a big jug for the day. i am drinking less milk to equal the amount of calories it adds. I could kick myself, even a couple of bites of food makes it really hard to get back on the liquids completely. so here I go again, the 3-4 days of suffering before my brain stops having a tantrum.
i call this day 2 take 2 of total liquids, I did it before, I can do it again! Besides I learned a valuable lesson.
You can't have a Peanut butter and jelly pity party every time the scale doesn't go your "weigh". That is how I got in this mess in the first place.
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Oct 16, 2011
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i feel like a stuffed turkey!! how can drinking milk do this to a person!!!!
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benefiber
senakot
senakot
citrucel
senakot
miralax
miralax
senakot
i feel like a stuffed turkey!! how can drinking milk do this to a person!!!!
Day 8 Liquid diet
Oct 10, 2011
feeling pretty good, there was definately a rough few days to start, head hunger is the worst, i am glad i am doing it because i feel like i am learning a bit about myself now instead of later when i have other things like protein to worry about.
seeing a commercial or food or smelling things gives me the most intense "tastes" in my mouth and i have to get distracted or drink something., this has gotten better as i go along, like a kid having a tantrum, they dont get what they want and give up eventually.
i never paid attention to how many social cues there are that make you eat. in the past i would have picked up something and eaten it, definately something to watch out for. also had alot of impulses where i started to get up or pick up food that i never noticed before, even on the low carb diet i would have grabbed a "healthy" snack. it makes me wonder now, how much of it i really "needed".
one thing i have found is that after day 6 constipation became and issue. 2 days and now i am finally taking some benefiber and hoping for the best, i didnt weigh myself today because i feel like a stuffed turkey!
the nausea has gone away, sadly i think that the sugar free syrups were doing it. i am back to regular milk at the moment, straight no chaser.
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seeing a commercial or food or smelling things gives me the most intense "tastes" in my mouth and i have to get distracted or drink something., this has gotten better as i go along, like a kid having a tantrum, they dont get what they want and give up eventually.
i never paid attention to how many social cues there are that make you eat. in the past i would have picked up something and eaten it, definately something to watch out for. also had alot of impulses where i started to get up or pick up food that i never noticed before, even on the low carb diet i would have grabbed a "healthy" snack. it makes me wonder now, how much of it i really "needed".
one thing i have found is that after day 6 constipation became and issue. 2 days and now i am finally taking some benefiber and hoping for the best, i didnt weigh myself today because i feel like a stuffed turkey!
the nausea has gone away, sadly i think that the sugar free syrups were doing it. i am back to regular milk at the moment, straight no chaser.
DAY 6 pre-op diet
Oct 10, 2011
i feel like i am writing a diary in a remote cave where i am trying to survive. lol day 6, i caught a fish.........the mosquitos are killing me......
anyway, day 6 of skim milk diet. i am down 13 pounds from day 1. not shabby. the first three days were the worst. 4 was rough in the evening. really reaaly bad. i added a some fat free broth which helped alot mentally i think. at least after surgery we can have something that tastes different than milk.
day 5 was the best for me, i felt like i got over a hump. today is pretty good too. i went grocery shopping and didnt have all the cravings i would normally have walking through a store. after a while i reached my limit but i felt good about it.
sugar free syrups are the bomb. i have had pumpkin pie, almond roca, coconut, strawberry etc. only caveat is that i am starting to feel like they are messing with my blood sugar, after a few days i started feeling lightheaded and nauseous pretty quick after drinking them, the last 2 days i had plain milk and didnt seem to have the same effects. i may try a syrups again tomorrow and see if that is for sure the culprit.
husband and sister are doing 1 week with me for solidarity. they have both lost 7 pounds. week 1 is almost over, 3 more to go, i cant wait to reach the halfway point!
Liquid Diets!
Oct 10, 2011
lost of us seem to be on or about to be on the lovely liquid diets. i decided to copy my personal blog to here about the liquid diet in case it might help someone else, so here is the backlog, there are three.
DAY 2
soo,
yesterday i felt pretty BadAss. No problem, i felt full and empowered.
today around 4pm i started looking at the dogs beggin strips.......lol my husband and sister are doing tihs with me for 1 week out of solidarity. This morning my husband bagged the trash and said the food in there even looked good.
I have stuck with it though and am carrying on. I have lost weight prior to this about 57 pounds, in a weird way i am grateful for the diet because i have gradually stepped down my old eating habits and put food where it belongs, i feel like this is important for me mentally and i will sort out alot of the feelings i am having now before waking up from surgery.
i have learned that
1. when i am hungry my mind thinks i need food because that is all i ever gave it. hunger= pizza. good lord typing the word hurts...lol however when i am hungry and i drink milk i feel full and satisfied and i feel like i a retraining my brain as to what nourishment is!
2. liquid diets make you pee like Seabiscuit!
3. sugar/carb/fat free coffee syrups have saved my life. i am going to cash and carry to look for more flavors!
around 9pm i started telling myself that the pasta in the fridge would be my last meal, no one would know and i would never do it again. i pictured myself creeping to the microwave and tried to justify why i deserved a break. so i broke down, went in the kitchen and threw it in the trash and did some dishes, got a glass of milk and signed on here, go me!
my sister told me i should have fed it to the dogs because it would be safer...lol!
4. i dont know why i am surprised that you can drink milk and still poop, babies do it. i think people with hemmorhoids should try it if you know what i mean!
tomorrow is day 3, people say it gets better after day 3, i will let you know if they are full of it!
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DAY 2
soo,
yesterday i felt pretty BadAss. No problem, i felt full and empowered.
today around 4pm i started looking at the dogs beggin strips.......lol my husband and sister are doing tihs with me for 1 week out of solidarity. This morning my husband bagged the trash and said the food in there even looked good.
I have stuck with it though and am carrying on. I have lost weight prior to this about 57 pounds, in a weird way i am grateful for the diet because i have gradually stepped down my old eating habits and put food where it belongs, i feel like this is important for me mentally and i will sort out alot of the feelings i am having now before waking up from surgery.
i have learned that
1. when i am hungry my mind thinks i need food because that is all i ever gave it. hunger= pizza. good lord typing the word hurts...lol however when i am hungry and i drink milk i feel full and satisfied and i feel like i a retraining my brain as to what nourishment is!
2. liquid diets make you pee like Seabiscuit!
3. sugar/carb/fat free coffee syrups have saved my life. i am going to cash and carry to look for more flavors!
around 9pm i started telling myself that the pasta in the fridge would be my last meal, no one would know and i would never do it again. i pictured myself creeping to the microwave and tried to justify why i deserved a break. so i broke down, went in the kitchen and threw it in the trash and did some dishes, got a glass of milk and signed on here, go me!
my sister told me i should have fed it to the dogs because it would be safer...lol!
4. i dont know why i am surprised that you can drink milk and still poop, babies do it. i think people with hemmorhoids should try it if you know what i mean!
tomorrow is day 3, people say it gets better after day 3, i will let you know if they are full of it!
day 8 milk diet
Oct 10, 2011
feeling pretty good, there was definately a rough few days to start, head hunger is the worst, i am glad i am doing it because i feel like i am learning a bit about myself now instead of later when i have other things like protein to worry about. seeing a commercial or food or smelling things gives me the most intense "tastes" in my mouth and i have to get distracted or drink something., i never paid attention to how many social cues there are that make you eat. in the past i would have picked up something and eaten it, definately something to watch out for. also had alot of impulses where i started to get up or pick up food that i never noticed before, even on the low carb diet i would have grabbed a "healthy" snack. it makes me wonder now, how much of it i really "needed".
one thing i have found is that after day 6 constipation became and issue. 2 days and now i am finally taking some benefiber and hoping for the best, i didnt weigh myself today because i feel like a stuffed turkey!
the nausea has gone away, sadly i think that the sugar free syrups were doing it. i am back to regular milk at the moment, straight no chaser.
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one thing i have found is that after day 6 constipation became and issue. 2 days and now i am finally taking some benefiber and hoping for the best, i didnt weigh myself today because i feel like a stuffed turkey!
the nausea has gone away, sadly i think that the sugar free syrups were doing it. i am back to regular milk at the moment, straight no chaser.
day 6
Oct 09, 2011
i feel like i am writing a diary in a remote cave where i am trying to survive. lol day 6, i caught a fish.........the mosquitos are killing me......
anyway, day 6 of skim milk diet. i am down 13 pounds from day 1. not shabby. the first three days were the worst. 4 was rough in the evening. really reaaly bad. i added a some fat free broth which helped alot mentally i think. at least after surgery we can have something that tastes different than milk.
day 5 was the best for me, i felt like i got over a hump. today is pretty good too. i went grocery shopping and didnt have all the cravings i would normally have walking through a store. after a while i reached my limit but i felt good about it.
sugar free syrups are the bomb. i have had pumpkin pie, almond roca, coconut, strawberry etc. only caveat is that i am starting to feel like they are messing with my blood sugar, after a few days i started feeling lightheaded and nauseous pretty quick after drinking them, the last 2 days i had plain milk and didnt seem to have the same effects. i may try a syrups again tomorrow and see if that is for sure the culprit.
husband and sister are doing 1 week with me for solidarity. they have both lost 7 pounds. week 1 is almost over, 3 more to go, i cant wait to reach the halfway point!
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anyway, day 6 of skim milk diet. i am down 13 pounds from day 1. not shabby. the first three days were the worst. 4 was rough in the evening. really reaaly bad. i added a some fat free broth which helped alot mentally i think. at least after surgery we can have something that tastes different than milk.
day 5 was the best for me, i felt like i got over a hump. today is pretty good too. i went grocery shopping and didnt have all the cravings i would normally have walking through a store. after a while i reached my limit but i felt good about it.
sugar free syrups are the bomb. i have had pumpkin pie, almond roca, coconut, strawberry etc. only caveat is that i am starting to feel like they are messing with my blood sugar, after a few days i started feeling lightheaded and nauseous pretty quick after drinking them, the last 2 days i had plain milk and didnt seem to have the same effects. i may try a syrups again tomorrow and see if that is for sure the culprit.
husband and sister are doing 1 week with me for solidarity. they have both lost 7 pounds. week 1 is almost over, 3 more to go, i cant wait to reach the halfway point!
Day 2 of 4 week liquid diet
Oct 05, 2011
soo,
yesterday i felt pretty BadAss. No problem, i felt full and empowered.
today around 4pm i started looking at the dogs beggin strips.......lol my husband and sister are doing tihs with me for 1 week out of solidarity. This morning my husband bagged the trash and said the food in there even looked good.
I have stuck with it though and am carrying on. I have lost weight prior to this about 57 pounds, in a weird way i am grateful for the diet because i have gradually stepped down my old eating habits and put food where it belongs, i feel like this is important for me mentally and i will sort out alot of the feelings i am having now before waking up from surgery.
i have learned that
1. when i am hungry my mind thinks i need food because that is all i ever gave it. hunger= pizza. good lord typing the word hurts...lol however when i am hungry and i drink milk i feel full and satisfied and i feel like i a retraining my brain as to what nourishment is!
2. liquid diets make you pee like Seabiscuit!
3. sugar/carb/fat free coffee syrups have saved my life. i am going to cash and carry to look for more flavors!
around 9pm i started telling myself that the pasta in the fridge would be my last meal, no one would know and i would never do it again. i pictured myself creeping to the microwave and tried to justify why i deserved a break. so i broke down, went in the kitchen and threw it in the trash and did some dishes, got a glass of milk and signed on here, go me!
my sister told me i should have fed it to the dogs because it would be safer...lol!
4. i dont know why i am surprised that you can drink milk and still poop, babies do it. i think people with hemmorhoids should try it if you know what i mean!
tomorrow is day 3, people say it gets better after day 3, i will let you know if they are full of it!
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yesterday i felt pretty BadAss. No problem, i felt full and empowered.
today around 4pm i started looking at the dogs beggin strips.......lol my husband and sister are doing tihs with me for 1 week out of solidarity. This morning my husband bagged the trash and said the food in there even looked good.
I have stuck with it though and am carrying on. I have lost weight prior to this about 57 pounds, in a weird way i am grateful for the diet because i have gradually stepped down my old eating habits and put food where it belongs, i feel like this is important for me mentally and i will sort out alot of the feelings i am having now before waking up from surgery.
i have learned that
1. when i am hungry my mind thinks i need food because that is all i ever gave it. hunger= pizza. good lord typing the word hurts...lol however when i am hungry and i drink milk i feel full and satisfied and i feel like i a retraining my brain as to what nourishment is!
2. liquid diets make you pee like Seabiscuit!
3. sugar/carb/fat free coffee syrups have saved my life. i am going to cash and carry to look for more flavors!
around 9pm i started telling myself that the pasta in the fridge would be my last meal, no one would know and i would never do it again. i pictured myself creeping to the microwave and tried to justify why i deserved a break. so i broke down, went in the kitchen and threw it in the trash and did some dishes, got a glass of milk and signed on here, go me!
my sister told me i should have fed it to the dogs because it would be safer...lol!
4. i dont know why i am surprised that you can drink milk and still poop, babies do it. i think people with hemmorhoids should try it if you know what i mean!
tomorrow is day 3, people say it gets better after day 3, i will let you know if they are full of it!
Might I suggest?
Oct 04, 2011
going to the goals section and picking out a few? I browsed the goals and even chose ones i have achieved already so i could mark them accomplished. it felt great!!! plus i believe in visualization and imagining myself doing all those great things was great for the spirit.
some of them are quite humorous. i gave a big AMEN! to buying something besides lotion from Victoria's secret...
what is your number 1 NSG? or Non scale goal?
mine is climbing a rock wall. dont ask me why, i feel like taking this new body for a spin and seeing what the old gal can do!
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some of them are quite humorous. i gave a big AMEN! to buying something besides lotion from Victoria's secret...
what is your number 1 NSG? or Non scale goal?
mine is climbing a rock wall. dont ask me why, i feel like taking this new body for a spin and seeing what the old gal can do!
