Hi! I was seeing a doctor here in the states about getting the gastric sleeve done until we discovered my insurance company will only pay for the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and I do not want that. So I am going to a doctor in Mexico because that's who my aunt went to. Anyway, his pre-op diet for me is just 5 days of liquids. With the doctor here, it was 2 or 3 days of liquid right before surgery (can't remember which off the top of my head, but I'll look it up), but starting two weeks before that it was Protein shakes two or three times a day and a high protein/non-starchy vegetable dinner.

So my question is, would it be bad for me to follow the diet I was given by the doctor here? It seems to me it should work.

My doc said two weeks of just Protein shakes and Clear Liquids prior to surgery. They said the point of this is to shrink your liver by decreasing glycogen stores, so yes, I'd say it's not a bad idea to follow the original doctor's plan. The smaller your liver is, the less time your surgery will take, and the less chance of complications while you are on the table.

My doc did not need me to follow the liver shrinking preop diet but I did anyway. Eating healthy can't be bad!!

consider yourself lucky most of us have to do 2-3 weeks of preop....me I would do the 5 day just in case I slip up...Good luck