I am nervous that I will not be able to get this additional wait off before my visit.
Hi Melissa. Welcome to the group. Your concern actually underscores the classic mindset you find in an eating disorder. You couldn't follow the pre-op diet for whatever reasons, and now you are panicking, wanting a quick fix which would be attained only by unhealthy dieting, probably fasting. I'll bet 90% of the members here have been in the same fix.
People focus on the pre-op diet as being a "liver shrinking" tool, for the benefit of the surgeon who has to navigate around your organs. But that's not the real reason you're on a pre-op diet.
If I were in your shoes, I would most likely contact my surgeon immediately and explain what has happened and why you think it has happened. Your surgeon might simply elect to make a note of it in your chart, or he or she might instead postpone your appointment and instruct you to go back to the pre-op diet and follow it for at least two weeks.
If only for the liver-shrinking aspect of the pre-op diet, your surgeon would want to have that room in your abdomen in which to operate.
But I think it's more important, and probably required by insurance, that you demonstrate the ability to follow a healthy eating plan.
If you were given a pre-op diet in writing, I would immediately go back to the first step and observe it religiously. This is what you're going to have to do after surgery anyway, and if you can't follow a healthy eating plan, what is the point of having the surgery? It's not a Magic Bullet. You will not lose weight unless you use it as a tool to eat less. You also need to learn to eat fewer carbohydrates and more protein, and you need to add water to your daily diet.
They usually recommend 64 Oz at minimum, and drinking water does not add water weight to your total weight number. You cannot gain weight by drinking water. Water has no calories. And it is true that water flushes the fat out of your body and gives assistance to your metabolism so you can lose more weight more quickly.
Rather than looking for a way out with a quickie diet, your inability to keep weight off or following eating plan is an important element of your eating disorder and its pathologies. Your Dr needs to know that this is happening to you.
Of course, we all understand your struggle right now. But it is important to allow self-honesty to come to the forefront of your fight with obesity.
So I think you need to ask yourself if you are capable of using this tool and following a healthy eating plan for the rest of your life.
We have all been in the same situation, where we had to control multiple addiction. And the eating disorder Goblin is going to try to trip you up every second of every minute of every hour of every day. It is tenacious and constant. And it doesn't all go away because you had surgery. It goes away because you were able to change the focus of your brain from crazy eating to health.
Usually, me eating disorder functions best when you have low self-esteem. Even at your current weight, the most powerful thing you can do is believe in your own Beauty and your pursuit of Health. It is incredibly hard to do this, even if you are motivated by fear or a vision of your true self in the future.
Just so I don't have to write it all over again, I am going to refer you to a resource I am currently working on. I recommend a book and actively using the book as a way to have more positive feelings about yourself and less negative self-image.
THE GOSPEL OF BARIATRICS The organization for bariatric surgeons and patients: https://asmbs.org/ USDA FOOD AND NUTITION GUIDE The official government resource for nutritional information in food: https://www.usda.gov/topics/food-and-nutrition...
www.americanbariatrics.org
Best of luck to you! We are really pulling for you because we all understand what you're going through. But at this time, the best thing you can do is practice honesty with yourself and with your medical team. They need to know what's going on with you.
Hang around and read our posts and please speak up and let us know how you're doing. You cannot possibly post too many of your feelings. We exist to help and support you. We are listening.