Ive been on my pre-op diet now for a week today, I was surpose to do the 1,000 callorie one, or milk one, so I compramised and did both .... Yes both, I have my own shop and somedays are to busy to start to faff about with dinners ect, so yes its so much easier for me to go to the shop and grab a pint of milk rather than start counting calls, and as on another thread they advised me to buy some crusha which I did. So when I am getting ready in the morning for work I also have a pint of milk, then when I come home I have 2 x slices of dry weight watchers bread and a bowl of home made soup consisting of 4 oz chicken breast without the skin, small amount barley, new potatoes with skins on, carrots, spring cabbage, small amount of salt & pepper. I then pull half the lumps out when cooked, puree`the other half left in the pan so its nice and thick then put the lumps back in and hey presto! no thickener its lovely this does two dinners by the way. the following night I do it with lean gammon and add a tin of mushy peas so its like pea & ham soup. I dont have my pint of milk with that but I do have a pint of ice cold water with ice cubes. Then before I go to bed I have a milky coffee half pint of milk used and I have 2 x rich tea bikkies to compramise for the other half a pint. It cant be doing anything wrong as I have lost 6LB in 1 week. G.M