[lswood]

Ok, I am new to this forum, I just started the process and according to my surgeon I should be having surgery by mid-September!
My insurance is at this point considering me preoperative, but I still have to go through the six months of documented dieting and that office visit has to be seperate from any other dr's visits which is th really irritating part.
Anyway, I already know my doctor is going to pretty much give me the same info that she always has and leave it up to me.
Here is where my question comes in: What diet, type of diet, whatever do you think would be most beneficial for preparing me for my diet after surgery?

[missangelaks]

first of all

Now, my doctor gave me guidelines such as stay under 100 fat grams...which was a very high and attainable number. I didn't lose much during the 6 month supervised diet but that was not the plan...I just had to show that I could follow a plan and stick to it. My BMI was 44 and my insurance didn't want me under a 40 so maintainance was ideal for me.

My surgeon didn't require any pre-surgery diet as long as I didn't gain much weight. But there are some advantages to letting go of high fat foods such as Fast Food and the like. One being that your liver is larger when trying to process that kind of fat making it harder to do surgery laporscopicly and the smaller you are before hand, the safer the surgery is and easier it is to recover from.

I spent my last 2 months before surgery "saying goodbye" to food. Once I said goodbye to something, I didn't eat it any more. I am very glad that I did that!

Good luck to you on the beginning of a grand (as in large and life changing) journey, iswood!

Angela