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voiceomt2002    4

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Yep! You should have seen the first picture of my liver. It was a disgusting pile of goo. Only reason I saw it is because it happened to be in a picture they took of my insides for a hysterectomy.

My LapBand surgeon, Dr. Baptista, made me go on a strict diet. I won't lie and tell you it was easy. It wasn't. Was it worth it? You betcha! Dr. Baptista took a picture of my healthy much-reduced liver to give me a pat on the head after my surgery for being such a good patient. What a difference!

Yeah, it was worth it.

Lena

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RestlessMonkey    7

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KSILL18 if you follow your doc's instructions it apparently shrinks "enough" :laugh:

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voiceomt2002    4

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i wonder how much your liver actually shrinks during pre-op diet....

No clue, to tell you the truth, but I'd be willing to bet it's a very individualized thing.

You can start right now. I started months before I needed to do so, as soon as a bandster friend warned me. She told me to go on a very low-carb diet and stay there.

I did, and once I made the adjustments to my recipes and got into the habit of reading all the labels of all the food I shopped for, it got a lot easier. I actually enjoy the low-carb life now, and had no trouble when the doc told me to diet and keep below 30g of carbs total a day. It wasn't until I started tracking calories as well that I actually lost a lot of weight, but by then the extra care wasn't that difficult.

You can do this. Really. A little privitation now means the possibility of a lifetime of rewards later.

Lena

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leticiawhite    0

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Yes, If you are severely overweight most likley your liver is fatty. I was just banded Jan. 5th, and my surgeon told me she couldn't tell one lobe from another, and it felt like cheese cake.

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texasweb    0

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i wonder how much your liver actually shrinks during pre-op diet....

My dietition said that it shrinks to about 1/3 after the pre-op diet.

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