Thanks everyone so much for your advise it's heart warming to know I'm not on my own. I will try to go back to basics and start again. Before my surgery I had to do a 6 week preop diet because I have liver disease. I lost 21lbs in the 6 weeks and was really pleased. I will try and do that for a fee weeks and see what happens. I started off at 202lbs and I'm only 7lbs lower than that now. When I lost the weight my liver improved but now I have got fibrosis.