Category: vsg

These milkshakes are getting old very quickly. At least I’m not a week gone and have less than a week to go.

I’m booked in, paid for and am only now waiting on a theatre time for the 22^nd October. Aparently it’s a morning ‘list’ that Dr Talbot has so it should be (according to his office admin) either a 6am or 7am arrival.

The only issue is that I’m on liquids for the next week, then clear liquids the week after (but at least its after surgery). AFter that you get 2 weeks of ‘mushies’ which seems to be anything you can get through a straw. After that, its back to normal with far less hormones to make you hungry and a stomach the size (and shape) of a banana.

People report being able to eat almost everything the like but the main thing is they don’t want to. Thats what I’m looking for.

Anyway, a week to go and It’ll be almost over :-)

Its day 6 now and I think I’m learning to live with the pre-op diet.

I’ve lost 5.8kgs so far although I’m still tired. The first few days was like I was constantly drunk. I had headaches and tiredness.

Once you reach about day 4, its ok. You seem to (although I don’t have the equipment to tell) go into ketosis and slowly get back to almost normal. Believe it or not, I’m having trouble eating enough of the stuff to make the 600–800cal per day. I know people don’t really care about this but its being recorded here because I have no where else to write it and somebody, somewhere may care  :-)

Monday	533
Bar – berry crunch	229
Milkshake – vanilla	152
Milkshake – chocolate	152
Tuesday	533
Bar – berry crunch	229
Milkshake – chocolate	152
Milkshake – chocolate	152
Wednesday	494
Milkshake – chocolate	152
Soup – chicken	169
Dessert – chocolates	173
Thursday	447
Bar – cappuccino	238
Milkshake – strawberry	209
Friday	418
Milkshake – coffee	209
Milkshake – strawberry	209
Saturday	447
Bar – cappuccino	238
Milkshake – strawberry	209

On day 3 of the VLCD now and I’m in a bit of a daze. I don’t seem to be able to think properly. Others on the mailing lists etc are reporting being grumpy and yelling at everyone.

Anyway, I just worked out I’ve been on 533 cal/day and thats not really enough. Ill investigate some other things im allowed to have so ill make between 600–800 that im supposed to have.

This is not a good way to survive.

At least theres only 11 days to go.

I’ve reached a personal high of 126.2kg and the scales read out at 53.5% fat.

It’s all downhill from here (hopefully)

 

Today, the 2 week mark from my surgery, marks the start of the clinical diet.

The diet is basically 3 optifast ‘things’ per day. They have milkshakes, deserts, soups and bars (like museli bars).

I was very busy this morning and ended up just eating an berry bar and 600ml water. I have to say I was doubting what I had heard about how nasty this stuff is.

Anyway, its lunch time and I’m half way through a vanilla shake. Now I know what was meant when others complained, this stuff tastes horrible.

2 weeks of this stuff is going to drive me mad. Maybe ill live on the bars.

So far I’ve heard it called

• optispew
• optivomit
• the ‘auschwitz’ diet

I can only hope that the chocolate is better than the vanilla.