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09-02-2007, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Colorado
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Weight Statistics September 11, 2007 Surgery Date:
Height:
253 lb Start Weight:
233 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
20 lb Weight Loss:
103 lb Lb Left to Lose:
7.90513833992 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index41 BMI Start:
41 BMI Current:
23 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I have been reading through the threads and find that the liquid diets are all different. I start my liquid diet Sept 8-Surgery is Sept 11. I can only have water/clear no sugar liquids and sugar free jello. Why are the diets so different? How do you survive 3 days with no food????????
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09-02-2007, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: NY
Posts: 10,174
Weight Statistics 4/19/2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
260 lb Start Weight:
152 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
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41.5384615385 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index38.3910943079 BMI Start:
22.4440243646 BMI Current:
24.36357908 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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wow. im sorry you have to go thru that. i am sure that if i had to i wouldnt make it so i give you and all the others a lot of credit. no clue why but we all seem to have had different preop as well as post op instruction. maybe doc can answer.
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09-02-2007, 08:43 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: WADING RIVER (Long Island), NY
Posts: 5,122
Weight Statistics 7/16/07 Start Date:
7/16/07 Surgery Date:
4' 11"
Height:
230 lb Start Weight:
130 lb Current Weight:
115 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
15 lb Lb Left to Lose:
43.4782608696 % % Lost:
12/31/08 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index46.4492961793 BMI Start:
26.2539500144 BMI Current:
23.2246480896 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I Had To Do 3 Days Also. You Should Be Able To Have Broth Cause That Is Clear. But Thank God You Dont Have To Do 2 Wks Or Months Of The Liquid Diet. Alot Of People On Here Had To Do That.
Hang In There. You Will Do It Cause You Know You Have To. 
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09-02-2007, 08:49 AM
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A lot of the instructions are based on the personal experiences of the individual surgeons. They will tell you to do things that they feel most comfortable with, and has worked well with their patients up to now.
Yes, you can survive for a pretty long time without food, so long as you get the daily liquids in. You've got plenty stored within your body right now. After all, post op, for a long time, what you are going to get into your body are only the essential nutrients that we have to get from the outside world because our body can't produce them, but even with those stuff, someone with a normal range weight has enough stocked to last for more than a week or two, so with excess weight, you have even more.
We can survive starvation, but we can't survive dehydration.
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09-02-2007, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Posts: 5,162
Weight Statistics July 21, 2007 Start Date:
August 6, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
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287 lb Start Weight:
151 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
136 lb Weight Loss:
11 lb Lb Left to Lose:
47.3867595819 % % Lost:
January 1, 2009 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index50.8342151675 BMI Start:
26.7455278408 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I had to do the 2 weeks liquid diet and after the first 4 days, it was a breeze! Dont worry, you can do it! Congrats on your date!!
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09-02-2007, 12:05 PM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Colorado
Posts: 101
Weight Statistics September 11, 2007 Surgery Date:
Height:
253 lb Start Weight:
233 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
20 lb Weight Loss:
103 lb Lb Left to Lose:
7.90513833992 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index41 BMI Start:
41 BMI Current:
23 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Thanks guys....helpful as always
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09-02-2007, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tega Cay, SC
Posts: 1,014
Weight Statistics August 2, 2007 Start Date:
August 14, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 7"
Height:
283 lb Start Weight:
162 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
121 lb Weight Loss:
2 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.7561837456 % % Lost:
Christmas, 2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index44.3192247717 BMI Start:
25.3700155937 BMI Current:
25.0568055246 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Doctors are all different, that's certainly one thing that is really clear from reading the posts here. I had a 2 week liquid diet before my surgery with clear liquids only on the day before surgery. I didn't find the 2 weeks too hard, because I could eat lots of blenderized soups that filled me up, along with SF jello. It seems hard when you think about it, but just remember the reason why you're doing it -- your surgery -- and it makes it a lot easier to make it through. You'll do fine.
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