What Pre-op diet did you do?

dougprime
on 2/14/15 6:40 am

Wow! My Insurance (and my physician) required I diet for six months before I did the surgery (1600 calories a day and lose 10% of my body weight), and then two weeks of alternating 1200/800 calorie days on a blended diet. The plus side was I dropped about forty pounds before my surgery and my insurance didn't make me jump through any other hoops, but wow would I have liked to hear "just don't gain any weight."

SW: 336

CW: 279

GOAL: 165

CGCL
on 2/14/15 8:01 am

RNY on 02/19/15

I'm thinking it's because my initial BMI was about 35.6 and my surgeon has done 1600+ laparoscopic RNYs. I did lose about 25 lbs before I started the process, which I guess they saw when they got the records from my PCP. Overall I'm down about 12% from my highest.

Height: 6'0" HW 5/2013 295. Consult 7/29/14 275. SW 261. RNY 2/19/15. M1:-33! M2:-13.5. M3:-12. M4:-10.8. M5:-9.7. M6:-5. M7: -4.5. Pregnant 8/15-5/16. 10 weeks post partum: 173.

oneuppr1
on 2/14/15 4:53 am

i had no specific diet, other than eating healthy, all i had to do was drink a mixture of 1 lemon juice and water, every morning to shrink my liver. my surgery was perfect and had no complications afterwards

HFA70
on 2/14/15 5:12 am

2 weeks of opti, broth and water

Doingrightin2015
on 2/14/15 8:55 am

RNY on 03/10/15

Thanks everyone. Funny how everyone gets something different to do from different doctors. I had the 6 month of supervised also, but I could not loss much and risk not being approved if my bmi went down to low. It's a game. Don't gain but don't loss to much. Now I wait and hope the insurance does not deny me. My doctor requires a 2 wk pre-op to shrink the liver. Would have been nice if I could just do the drink the water and lemon every morning. But I don't think the Medifast diet will be to bad.

Doingitright2015

HW in life 282 HW265 at start SW 244 CW170

selhard
on 2/14/15 2:43 pm - MN

RNY on 11/26/12

At a follow-up appt, I asked why I hadn't been given a pre-op diet plan. I was told too many patients find it hard to follow and it isn't a significant enough change in the liver, anyway.

The Salty Hag
on 2/15/15 12:11 am

RNY on 05/20/13

I had to do 4 weeks of Optifast. 5 shakes, ( or 1 Opti bar or 1 Optifast soup could be used in place of two shakes. ) and 1 low fat, low carb meal for dinner. I had to get in 80 oz of fluids per day. Two days before surgery, I did full liquids, and the day before 100 oz clear liquids only.

I woke up in between a memory and a dream...

Tom Petty

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version
on 2/15/15 8:59 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

No special pre-op diet required, but I started a lower fat, lower sugar diet during the 3 month insurance-required period.

this was in 2007 and my surgeon did a fair number of open surgeries (for DS and RNY) and wanted her patients as nutritionally strong as possible before surgery rather than having the body already under stress from a pre-op diet that is intended to shrink a fatty liver but which, in reality, is probably not long enough to actually accomplish that.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Doingrightin2015
on 2/15/15 6:00 pm

RNY on 03/10/15

I wonder about all the different types of diets prior to surgery. Yes, with the 6 months of supervised I was told to just start cutting out my bad carbs. and start exercising. I still had to be careful not to lose to much for fear of insurance not approving me. I had to purchase the pre-op diet from the office. But with that said....at least I am glad I got food to eat vs just having to do liquids.