I would love some suggestions on appropriate things to eat during this pre-op diet. My doc said I could follow the Atkins diet, but I've never done it before, so any tasty suggestions, I would TRULY appreciate. Thanks so much!:biggrin2:

If you google low carb luxury they have some really good recipes there. Though...I would try to make them a little lower in fat that what they make. Use as lean of meat as possilbe....try ground chicken instead of hamburger.

lowcarbfriends dot com has about 10000 of great recipes.

My doctor put me on 60g protein/20g of fat/ 10g of sugar diet..

So I did Fat free Sugar Jello, Make Turkey broth (I put a lot of veggies when I made the broth and just strained them out later, atleast I get the veggie Vitamins in the broth).

I hate making Protein shakes myself. So I found a pretty good ready to drink shake by EAS AdvantEdge it has 17 g of protein. I don't recommend other EAS shake, because they can be pretty yucky. but the AdvantEdge Choc fudge tastes like when you mix cocoa with fat free milk. So it's pretty good!

Are you totally on liquid? If you can eat mushy you might want to try blending egg whites, silken tofu, and thin deli slices together then cook it in a microwave. You can get about 15-20g protein that way.

I LOVE LOVE my Protein drink -- Nature's Best Zero Carb Isopure - pineapple/orange/banana flavored. I actually prefer it just stirred with Water & ice rather than in a smoothie form. 2 scoops of powder is 50g of protein!! I just ordered the same company, Low Carb Dutch chocolate protein mix. I need that afternoon drink/sweet kinda taste and a pick me up so I don't load up on carbs at dinner.

I'm trying to eat chicken, turkey, ham, pork, ground turkey, any kind of fish or seafood. I'm still pre-surgery too. I'm trying to make my diet 80% protein/20% carbs. But that's me/my doc.

Good luck!

Thank you so much for all the suggestions. I will definitely give these things a try.:biggrin2: