help with gastric bypass please! urgent

I feel like a failure, I've been on my 2 week liquid diet before surgery (november 21st) and the first 4 days I totally got anxious and weird and totally had "last supper syndrom" Now dont get me wrong I didnt eat everything in sight like a maniac, I just ate what I wanted to for Dinner only, breakfast and lunch stood liquids, but the dinners weren't all too healthy, I know that for a complete fact. I feel like I messed up so badly. I'm on the 5th day and I started over I will not give into bad temptations because of the though of never eating certain foods again cause thats just silly, but my question is..is my surgery going to be okay? I lost 5 pounds even though those 4 days were awful.

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  • FJDodd
    FJDodd Posts: 140 Member
    I would say this is a question for your doctor.
  • sadly hes on vacation for the next week.
  • fatfudgery
    fatfudgery Posts: 449 Member
    Your surgery will most likely be fine — some doctors only put patients on a liquid diet for 48 hours before surgery. Don't lie to your doctor about it, though, make sure you bring it up next time you talk to him/her.

    Having said that: if you are at a point in your weight loss journey where you can't stick to a diet prescribed to you in order to make a potentially life-threatening surgery safer, maybe you're not ready to have surgery. I obviously don't know you or the specifics of your situation, but you should definitely be honest with yourself (and your doctors) about your level of commitment, and calibrate your expectations accordingly. The process you're about to embark on is unbelievably hard, and to come out at the other end with no results to show for it would be devastating.

    Best of luck to you. :flowerforyou:
  • What surgery bypass, sleeve or band?

    I had VSG over a year and a half ago so I know what you are going through. I had MANY food funerals. I actually gained 15 pounds leading up to my liquid diet because I was having so many food funerals. In the end it was all for naught. I still can eat whatever I want, now I just don't seem to care about those things. I am below goal and food isn't so important so don't worry you can never have those foods again because you can if you choose.

    When I did my preop diet I found I couldn't do the liquid shake thing for two meals. I was miserable, I never told my surgeon but I went low/no carb and lost those 15 pounds before surgery and my surgeon said my liver was beautiful.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    How are you going to handle this after surgery when the option to eat those foods is totally out of the question? I hope the surgery is everything you hope it will be but it isn't going to change your brain. A lot of people have severe depression issues after surgery because of the deprivation. It certainly isn't the easy way out.