I’ve been away for a while again and a lot has changed. I mentioned my holiday last time and that has been and gone and almost forgotten already…
I asked to be referred to a nutritionist at the Docs and have had a couple appointments so far. The usual thing of low calorie diets and doing a food plan in the first one but the second one, they have put me on a milk diet!
Each day I am allowed 4 pints of semi skimmed milk. That’s it. Well I can also have diet drinks, sweetener, tea and coffee. I did it for 5 days last week and lost 9lb and then had the weekend off and put on 5lb! Also, a word of warning, don’t drink 8 jaegarbombs in a row with only milk in your stomach, it doesn’t end well.
It seems a really unrealistic, unhealthy and an impossible-to-maintain diet. I’ve been reading up on it and it seems to be a pre-op diet that you follow for 10 days max but I’ve been told I can do it for 2 months…and its primary goal is to shrink your liver (I think) for your op. I’ll stick with it for a while as its actually easy and filling (and cheap!) and I’ve got my next appointment in 2 weeks so I’ll be asking a lot more questions then, especially about how I would start reintroducing food again without piling the pounds back on again.
I’m going to go have my mug of warm milk and get back to work! Watch this space!
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