PickleRick89

Hi everybody! I'm new here, just joined up on my lunch break actually, and wanted to introduce myself to the forum. My name is Rick, and my surgery date is scheduled for May 5th. My doctor said I don't need to begin my LRD until the 20th, although I'm now beginning to question whether I should start it sooner (couldn't hurt, right?). The diet I was given seems to be very restrictive, but even more so to me due to IBS and severe visceral reactions to certain foods, mainly vegetables. I have never been able to stomach vegetables, as far back as I can recall I would vomit just from a vegetable being in my mouth. And this has continued as the years have passed (I'm 35). There are other foods that cause this as well, a lot actually, and this has me really concerned for the LRD. What I wanted to ask was what can I eat in place of the vegetables that are in the diet? The goal here, according to the surgeon, is to enter ketosis and shrink the liver before surgery. I want to be successful but I'm lost here. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! I will answer any questions or clarifications after work.

When I think about asking the surgical team, specifically the surgeon, it doesn't seem likely that he will budge. As far as the dietician goes, same issue. They tend to see a one-size fits all approach, and example of which is that I do indeed have fatty liver, but it was never mentioned by the surgeon at our most recent appointment nor do I recall the dietician mentioning it. To be frank I don't think they'd give a crap about my issues with the food either. I did ask the surgeon if I could just avoid the vegetables altogether and he said "no" very brusquely and continued on to another point without giving me a chance to respond. Hence why I'm here asking. I think my hope was someone would have an idea about what to replace it with, perhaps something their dietician recommended or something, so I could just perform the switch and leave it at that without involving the surgeon. The dietician was nice enough but they tend to see any deviation from their recommendation as a sign of failure rather than a request for help.