Pre Op Diet

[kaymat 1]

Are steamed vegetables ok to have in your pre op diet? Would love to have some with a tiny, tiny bit of chicken. I miss my veggies

[donna12 742]

my surgeon said 3 Protein Shakes a day. I did get sick 2 days and got so weak that he allowed me to eat a Protein Bar but now looking back it was my body detoxing from carbs and sugars and I just needed to push thru it. Came out ok for surgery tho. Good luck. You can do it.

[Jean McMillan 2,973]

It depends on the details of your pre-op diet. Surgeons' pre-op diet requirements vary greatly. Some insist on only liquids (Protein shakes). My current surgeon allows only Protein shakes and Protein Bars, where as my original surgeon's pre-op diet was 1200 calories a day of real food with absolutely no processed food (to reduce sodium intake).

Without knowing the exact pre-op diet you're on, and how long you've been doing it, and when your surgery will be, it's hard for me to make suggestions. The purpose of the pre-op diet is to shrink your liver and improve its texture (making it less slippery) so that your surgeon can maneuver your liver out of the way (because the upper lobe lies on top of your stomach) without damaging it. My original surgeon told me that if he didn't like the looks of my liver after he got his scope inside me, he'd bail out of my surgery altogether. The idea of waking up with no band scared me into 100% compliance with my pre-op diet.