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Post-Op Week 106: Revisiting the Pre-Op Diet

Posted on July 19, 2015 | 3 comments

So it’s been 2 years since my VSG surgery, and I’m on the brink of a second surgery.

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Food Funerals and Last Meals: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

Posted on June 15, 2013 | 3 comments

One of the last regular meals I’ve eaten today: tacos al carbon at a local Mexican restaurant.

Today is T-minus 3 days and counting until I begin my pre-op diet. I’m beginning it a week early, as the week I am supposed to begin it I will be teaching workshops to adults. As I told my teaching partner, “I’d rather not be in carb withdrawal and bitchy while I’m trying to teach these people!” So I’m going to start a week early to get the withdrawal out of my system. I figure it can’t hurt anything to begin a week early, and whatever I can do to lose a little more weight before surgery will be a good thing for both me and my surgeon.

But before I start the first stage of the next stage of the rest of my life, I decided that I wanted to have a few “last meals” so to speak.

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