Pre OP

Hello wonderful readers. Well I am having gastric surgery done in 8 days and I am officially freaking out. I have for the past 4 years thought every so often about getting surgery to help me with my my weight issues. I have been overweight for the past 15 years and this June I thought enough was enough I’m doing it, I’m changing my life forever. But today I realized that I am literally changing my whole life in one moment FOREVER. Holy mother Fing wow!!!! Am I really doing this , is this what it’s going to take, what the hell did time go 15years jeez I’ll never get that back.

Okay I’m sure you want to know what brought this on well I’ll tell you. I have always known that the surgery causes great scarifes in food and limitaions all around BUT I being the moron that I am didn’t investage the diet until today. There are 4 food stages I will be going thru from the day of my surgery to about 12 weeks later. WO0O0O0O0OW AHHHHHH Okay I’m back. Here are the stages:

Stage 1- clear liquids for the first 2 days(no sugar low cal no0o0o bubbles high protein)

Stage 2-full liquids for 2-3 weeks (protein shakes ensure carnation breakfast drink of course no or low sugar no0o0o bubbles etc)

Stage 3-(this is the stage that freaks me out) pureed foods (wtf) for about 2-3 weeks  (baby food apple sauce pureed meat and vegetables

Stage 4-soft food for another 2-3 weeks (scrambled eggs boiled vegetables etc)

and finally after allllllllllll this then I’m back to normal solid food. It’s like I’m going thru infants all over again. I literally will be going from liquids thru a slow progression to solid foods as though being introduced to unlearning all the stupid habits I picked up along the way to make up for anything esle I lacked.  I honestly wished with every ounce I have to lose that I didn’t have to do this but I feel like this is my last chance. IDK. So if there’s anyone out there who can benefit from my soon to be struggle I will be blogging it for everyone to see, I guess just wish me luck.

SM