Pre op diets what dors YOURS look like
Mine was simple- solid normal foods, just very low carb of 20g or so a day.. for a week. I ate meat and veggies with some fats.. just no starches/fruit.
Day before surgery, was allowed to eat what I wanted for dinner, no restrictions.. and nothing by mouth from 10pm on, in prep for surgery the next day (I did not go nuts, I just ate healthy.) No bowel prep needed (they don't go near them, so at least with Aceves- no need to torture with that) and the stomach empties well in advance of surgery, so eating up till 10pm the night before was fine. He pretty much is a medical realist.. if it doesn't have any real reason for doing it he doesn't, so no deprivation liquid diets as the same end result can be achieved with real foods without the mental trauma.
Sorry, I have a chip on my shoulder for Drs that do the liquid diets, there is no scientific/medical reason that they are any better than real food.. and the idea of "training or showing you want it" is frankly just punitive imo.. but that's just my opinion, or rant.. so I'll stop now.
Day before surgery, was allowed to eat what I wanted for dinner, no restrictions.. and nothing by mouth from 10pm on, in prep for surgery the next day (I did not go nuts, I just ate healthy.) No bowel prep needed (they don't go near them, so at least with Aceves- no need to torture with that) and the stomach empties well in advance of surgery, so eating up till 10pm the night before was fine. He pretty much is a medical realist.. if it doesn't have any real reason for doing it he doesn't, so no deprivation liquid diets as the same end result can be achieved with real foods without the mental trauma.
Sorry, I have a chip on my shoulder for Drs that do the liquid diets, there is no scientific/medical reason that they are any better than real food.. and the idea of "training or showing you want it" is frankly just punitive imo.. but that's just my opinion, or rant.. so I'll stop now.
Aceves!
Get in with him if you can, of the three I would consider in MX: Ungson, Aceves and Alvarez.. I am very happy with my exp both with him & his team, and the hospital itself.
The patient makes or breaks it ultimately yes, but I have to admit.. I knew my issues, and I needed restriction and portion control.. that comes from a well-made/shaped sleeve. I can exert self-control sure, but this surgery is for the big additional help over and above my willpower (which is finite in anyone) and I needed the help of a tight sleeve. He's a very good surgeon for this procedure.
Get in with him if you can, of the three I would consider in MX: Ungson, Aceves and Alvarez.. I am very happy with my exp both with him & his team, and the hospital itself.
The patient makes or breaks it ultimately yes, but I have to admit.. I knew my issues, and I needed restriction and portion control.. that comes from a well-made/shaped sleeve. I can exert self-control sure, but this surgery is for the big additional help over and above my willpower (which is finite in anyone) and I needed the help of a tight sleeve. He's a very good surgeon for this procedure.
36f, but boughie size is relatively irrelevant imho.
You can have a tight 36f, and have capacity like someone else's normal 32f, you can have a tight 40f, and have better restriction than a loose 32f.. get it?
Boughie is just a measure on a guide that they insert down your throat to help them make a sleeve.. it is not your capacity- that comes from the surgeon's particular technique with how they shape the sleeve, and how snug they make it..
Then you have other factors like stomach length to add to the mix.. the same exact 36f by the same surgeon in two different folks will result in possibly two different capacities once all is healed and settled in.
You can have a tight 36f, and have capacity like someone else's normal 32f, you can have a tight 40f, and have better restriction than a loose 32f.. get it?
Boughie is just a measure on a guide that they insert down your throat to help them make a sleeve.. it is not your capacity- that comes from the surgeon's particular technique with how they shape the sleeve, and how snug they make it..
Then you have other factors like stomach length to add to the mix.. the same exact 36f by the same surgeon in two different folks will result in possibly two different capacities once all is healed and settled in.
Sorry, I have a chip on my shoulder for Drs that do the liquid diets, there is no scientific/medical reason that they are any better than real food.. and the idea of "training or showing you want it" is frankly just punitive imo.. but that's just my opinion, or rant.. so I'll stop now.
You and me both!
You and me both!
BAND REMOVED 9-4-12-fought insurance to get sleeve and won! Sleeved 1/22/13! Five years out and trying to get that last 15 pounds back off.
The more I'm around and active in the WLS community here and elsewhere, the more I'm buying into the idea that some Drs still despite their medical specialty still see being obese/MO/SMO as a moral failing.. rather than a complicated metabolic disease process.. and therefore we have to "prove we are ready" or "show that we can control ourselves"... it's BS. You get better nutrition and stay healthier (mentally and physically) pre-op on a real food diet than depriving yourself right before major surgery..
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