Pre-Op Nutrition

I have scheduled my nutrition assessment. In my meeting with a medical nutrition therapist with Pacific Nutrition and Wellness we will go over my history of crazy diets, my addiction to frosted mini wheats, the Spaghetti Factory and diet orange soda. And just what this surgery is going to be able to do for me in terms of food.

As part of the pre-op process I have to have a nutrition assessment and a psychological assessment and I’m nervous about them both. I don’t know how I feel about having someone dive into my world to discover my twisted relationship with food. All those sneaky little moments were I rationalized

“I can eat that because no one’s around to see me!”

“If I eat it really fast I can pretend it never happened”

“Salad w/o dressing for dinner = big piece of cheesecake for dessert!”


I have waged this terrible war with food for years and I finally feel like I am about to launch a weapon of mass destruction on it. Finally I will be able to figure out why I love something I hate so much and why I haven’t been able to beat this on my own.

In the meantime I have set a few rules for myself that I already know I need to work on.

1. Cut out soda (that’s going to be HARD)

2. Practice not drinking a beverage while I’m eating a meal

3. Make sure that my meal has some protein in it

4. Remember to take vitamins (another hard one – I can never remember!)