I have my surgery date (November 9th), with a two week prior liquid diet. So on October 26th I will be allowed three protein shakes and one lean cuisine meals a day. This is done so you can reduce the size and fat stored in your liver. The surgery sites are blocked by your liver and the doctor or assistant has to hold it over to get to the stomach and intestines. Hence the smaller the liver the better for it to be just be laproscopy gastric bypass.
So the big question will be what should I eat before the surgery and be ready to not eat again for at least a few months if not forever? I will still be very newly post op on Thanksgiving so it maybe a Thanksgiving dinner in October. I am not a huge turkey fan so I can take it or leave it. What I think I am really going to miss is fresh cookies. So everyone don't be surprised if I have dozens of different kinds of cookies on my counter before the 26th. Molasses and choc. chip are my favorites so they would be at the top of the list.
But you know what the most surprising thing in this 5 month journey has been, is that I am not depressed that eating is going to be very different soon. Or even that deciding what to have for my goodbye to food is really hard. I used to love eating but not so much now. I starting to become very aware of my emotional or mindless snacking. And I have ate myself to over 200 lbs and I am ready to change for the better.
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