Hey all

I'm currently going through the steps. I work nights shifts and have a 1 year old at home so eating on a set schedule is difficult. I was given the strict guidelines of how I have to eat after surgery. Can I get a little feedback from people going through this or have had the same issue?

I can't seem to control myself (as why I need help with surgery amyways). I feel like I am going to go back in one month and not shown any progress and be told I shouldn't get the surgery. If I could diet like this I wouldn't be looking for medical help in the first place.

Please help . Discouraged

Hey all

I'm currently going through the steps. I work nights shifts and have a 1 year old at home so eating on a set schedule is difficult. I was given the strict guidelines of how I have to eat after surgery. Can I get a little feedback from people going through this or have had the same issue?

I can't seem to control myself (as why I need help with surgery amyways). I feel like I am going to go back in one month and not shown any progress and be told I shouldn't get the surgery. If I could diet like this I wouldn't be looking for medical help in the first place.

Please help . Discouraged

I always thought the same thing about Weight Loss Surgery -- if I have to diet anyway, why do I need surgery? But after 40 years of yo-yo dieting and failures, I was ready for something else.

The difference is that after the sleeve, you're no longer hungry. Medical problems are resolved. The "diet" is no longer a diet -- it is a food plan for someone who eats to live, rather than lives to eat.

For me, food no longer has control over me. It's just another thing I do to take care of myself. Because, yes I am worth it. And, by the way, if you had told me 3 months ago that I would be saying this, I would have said you were nuts!

Good luck. You can do this. It will be amazing!

Hey all

I'm currently going through the steps. I work nights shifts and have a 1 year old at home so eating on a set schedule is difficult. I was given the strict guidelines of how I have to eat after surgery. Can I get a little feedback from people going through this or have had the same issue?

I can't seem to control myself (as why I need help with surgery amyways). I feel like I am going to go back in one month and not shown any progress and be told I shouldn't get the surgery. If I could diet like this I wouldn't be looking for medical help in the first place.

Please help . Discouraged

The difference with a preop diet and a regular diet we have done a thousand times is that you are doing it to shrink your liver to make your surgery easier and safer. Believe me when I say that I did not believe I could do the preop diet. But guess what? I did! And I lost ten pounds and my surgeon said surgery was easier because I did shrink my liver. The preop diet is not easy but we are here on the board to support you and it does get easier after 3 or 4 days. Hang in there and you can do this!!!

Thank you all. After posting this and reading some other threads I saw that it is to decrease the size of your liver but do they test the size of your liver before hand anyways? And I've just gone through my first round of appts how do I even know if my insurance is going to cover this or not? It did say PA is required but isn't that all work on the hospitals side?

Your surgeon can get a pretty good idea of how fatty your liver is by palpating your abdomen. I know my surgeon did that in my initial pre-op consult.