PLANS are DIFFERENT

Ok I'm seeing way too many people jumping to conclusions and almost biting posters heads off on what their post-op plans are per their surgeon.  Plans differ between surgeons we see it EVERYDAY.  Just because your plan is 3-4 steps down not everyone else's is.  Please don't jump to conclusions that the poster is not following THEIR plan.  If they state their plan then HOPEFULLY they know their plan.  If they are asking what YOUR plan is/was then share you plan.

Now if someone is eating KFC bowls, brownies, hamburgers with the bun, etc. at a week out then yes they need a reality check, which by the way isn't always hand-holding and sometimes a smack on the head is what is needed. 

I agree, Dana - we see it all too often.

I try to advocate for the no pre-op diet, no protein shake/bar people, because that was my plan and here I am - alive and well - 9 years later!    I often joke that some surgeons must really hate their patients if they make them do 3 weeks of protein shakes before and then another few months (sometimes years) afterwards 

No one plan is right and everything else is wrong - we all travel our journey and hopefully end up at the same point, happier, healthier and able to maintain our weight loss for the rest of our lives!

I'll drink to that! 

My program was also a no protein shake program.  I didn't for a while but since I struggled eating much at all at some point I did add them into my day.  I rarely drink one now, probably should check the expiration date of the two tubs I have.  There were a few I really did like (and of course they stopped making them) and there have been some that were gag worthy.

Yeah, I think it is downright cruel to make people do a two week liquid diet before surgery and then require them to be on liquids or purees only for another several weeks.

I know I have mentioned it before (but warrants repeating) that I was friends with someone who worked fro another bariatric surgeon and she told me that he thinks bariatric patients are a PITA (but he does it because it is so lucrative), and that he intentionally lies to them about some things (that diet soda is "dangerous" after RNY and that it was essential that people stay on liquids and purees until their pouch healed completely (4 weeks before soft food)) because he thinks that obese people should have to suffer a little bit since he is giving them the ability to lose their weight so easily... that they should have to pay a penalty for allowing themselves to get so fat!    Makes me wonder how many of the surgeons *****quire lengthy periods of liquids and purees feel the same way...

Lora

WOW that's absurd. He shouldn't be doing them then if he believes fat people should suffer. goes to show money IS his only reason. I'm sure there's others like that out there, I would have dropped my surgeon like a hot potato if he would have done anything like that. 

His patients, of course, have no idea that he feels this way or that he outright lies to them for his own entertainment (or whatever it is he gets out of forcing them to stay on liquids/purees so long).  I saw his patient instructions packet and I wouldn't have let him do surgery on me, but if someone goes to his info session and they don't know that not all surgeons have the same restrictions, they wouldn't have any reason to not use him.

Well, unless they are coffee drinkers. I was originally impressed that he "prohibits" both soda AND coffee because of the caffeine and acidity, whereas most surgeons selectively prohibit only soda, but that went away as sson as I saw his other restrictions and heard about his loathing for the people he operates on.

Lora

I'd phone the state Medical Board and report him. At the very least, his behavior is unprofessional.

My own surgeon had this same attitude about "fat people" but was doing the surgery because it is so lucrative.  It wasn't until he began to actually work with the obese and see what a difference he was able to make in their lives that his attitude changed.  I didn't know this about him until about 4 years post-op, and I must say I was disappointed in him, but glad he was able to do better.