Those of you who have had surgery already!
It will do several things for you:
--Possibly reduce the size of your liver and other fatty innards.
--Give your body an extra dose of nutrients that will help support it for the demands of healing
--Reduce the nutritional shock of a sudden change in diet that often leads to hair loss, weight loss resistance, and suppressed immune system.
My doctor does extensive preop nutritional analysis. He finds that 50% of his patients come to him with some serious deficit. He attributes much of the blame of the media on WLS for nutritional woes to the fact that most of us are predisposed to malnutrition by our past eating patterns. The preop focus on protein and vitamins should help bring this into balance BEFORE adding nutritional trauma.
One of the reasons our yo-yo dieting caused weight gain instead of loss was that we contantly deprived ourselves of elements essential to health. This made our bodies hang on to every ounce of stored reserves (i.e. fat). May as well start changing that now. Be good to yourself!
Joy
My Dr. did not do any of that to me. I was eating normal up until the day before surgery. I suppose each Dr. has reasons for doing what they do. Perhaps some past experiences with paitents having problems and / or complications. Joy had some good points about the benefits of getting into the habit of eating right before hand though. In the ultrasound of my internal organs they found that my liver was a little fatty but that did not stop the surgery. I am also very weak just one week after surgery. I am sure that my body is rebelling to the diet change.
My Dr said at my last appt before surgery, for the two before surgery try to stick to a more liquidy diet, it will increase your chanes of having a successful Lap RNY instead of it having to be open. But aof all things, DONT GAIN WEIGHT, a small change in weight makes your liver bloat very quickly. I tried to stick to that, but my sugars dropped to low, so then I ate one healthy solid meal a day and two were mainly liquids. Watched my carbs and fats. My sugery was a great success, I have not had to take any pain medicines, except the first night at the hospital, actually mainly to sleep, the beds were too hard for me. During the 2 weeks before surgery I thought, OMG I am going to die, my stomach is still huge and I am going to be hungry, each day I woke up with a new attitude, just what am I doing this for. And everyday I got stronger. I beleive the not so drastic change in one day was well worth the effort in the long run of not feeling so deprived. I ate applesauce today for the first time, I would have never gotten so excited about apple sauce before. Hang in there and do as your Dr says he is the expert!!!!
I was on the liquid protein diet for six weeks prior to surgery. I lost fifty pounds on that. Then I had surgery on December 1. I've lost over eighty-five pounds all together. I had lap RNY gastric bypass. I did stay on the liquid protein for a couple of weeks then started soft foods like grits and soups. I don't see how you could eat solid food for the first few weeks anyway. My stomach rebelled to the liquid protein by itself. But it soon adjusted. I'm eating pretty much anything I want now. I've become lactose intolerant, that's common. If I eat something that my new stomach doesn't like, I know it right away. Some things, like milk, will actually get me depressed for a couple of hours. I've heard that this is common too.
But I love my surgery. The first couple of weeks were tough but I'd do it again. Right after surgery, I questioned whether on not I should have done it. But not now. I'm very happy I've done it. And I'm over eighty-five pounds down to prove it. And I'm not missing food. I sometimes don't eat right but I just try harder the next day.
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