I am 6ft 5 in. 360 lbs. My Dr. says i can only have chicken stock, sugerfree jello and sugarfree popsicles. I'm on day 4 and struggling. I see tons of diets online that include food. What is the truth?

Hi Roger, I am told that each surgeon has their own pre-op diet for their patients. Also that day 1-3 are the hardest and after that it gets easier. I haven't stated mine yet, but will in a few weeks. Good luck, you can do this! Hang in there.

The truth is that different surgeons have different experience levels, different opinions about what is best, different ideas about how best to approach surgery, etc. So many things are a factor in what the doctor's instructions will be, too; your starting weight, how much you've lost since you first started, how controlled your diet has been for that past several months, the type of surgery, your pre-existing health issues, whether or not you have blood sugar or blood pressure problems, whether you have fatty liver issues, the list goes on and on. I, for example, was nearly 400 pounds on the day of surgery and over 400 when I first started the program, but I had been logging my food for 7 months and had no fatty liver and no other health issues, so I was not required to have a preop diet other than to continue what I was doing and switch to Clear liquids two days before. A friend in the same program was only 250 when she started and she had a 3-week strict pre-op diet. The point is that in the end, what matters is following your surgeon's orders as closely as possible, because nothing he or she does is going to be for any reason other than to see you healthy and safe. Good luck! It does get easier! I didn't have a preop diet but I decided to do one on my own just to give myself the best head start I could, and it wasn't fun but it definitely did get easier. It's just practice for the coming weeks, months, and years.

I have my surgery on 7/25 I had to go an Akins diet 2 weeks pre-op than clear liquid day before but I was 478 and now I'm 398 2 days pre-op but you got to follow your doctor orders

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it honestly depends on the surgeon but i am surprised they are not letting you have any kind of protein! that doesn't seem right. my surgeon does a modified diet for 1-2 weeks (2 shakes, 2 bars, and 1 low fat low carb high Protein meal) then a liquid diet for a week before where you are only allowed Water, SF liquids and shakes.