So I'm 2 months out from the day I start my pre-op diet so I'm shifted into my full on "diet".
This is counting calorie mode with the goal being a loss of .5 to 1.5 pounds per week. The place
I'm going has several phases. In this one they don't want you starving yourself, but making the better food choices. I'm using Weight Watches on line simply because it's the easiest tool I've found. As long as I am successful at this, showing a slow but steady loss over the next 8 weeks, then my "pre-opt starvation diet" will only be 2 weeks and I'm gunning for that. I do not want to have a 4 week opti diet and, as a result, have my surgery date have to change.
I'm pretty confident I can do this since I think their expectation is very reasonable. They just want to see that you are in a fat burn mode, not storing, for the liver.
Then, last night, I was looking at some things on line and I see this guy cutting into a huge birthday cake. It's amazing what a trigger that was for me! And here's the stupid part. I love cake. But I only love about 4 bites of cake and then I really don't like it all that much. But if I have it here, I keep eating it when I am way into the part of really not wanting it anymore. I need to remember this experience, especially in those hard days of the diet. I feel like I
need to crawl into a cave for a month to avoid these kinds of triggers.
I sometimes think I need a brain transplant more than a stomach removal.
