Pre Surgery Diet

[bdmadsen 13]

I have noticed that every doctor has their own type of pre diet. I have read some posts where the person was on a liquid diet. My doctor has me on a form of the Akins Diet. I can eat meats and vegetables but to stay away from deep fried meats. I can only have 30 mg of Carbs a day. Has anyone else been on this type of pre-surgery diet and if so how much did you lose.

I started my diet today and my surgery date is May 28th. I am really excited to get started.

[NewAshes 232]

Have you done the Akins diet before?

[Fiddleman 4,376]

Atkins induction is what my NUT encouraged us to do also. It is not only good to shrink the liver, but prepares you for the low / no sugar aspects of the post op diet. My post op diet was Atkins style probably up to about month 6 post op. After 6 months, I have increased good carbs to support high intensity fitness.

[Ari 19]

I'm on the same boat with the Atkins diet.... My surgery is on May 22nd and I started the Atkins diet on Friday and I'm down 10lbs

[RickM 1,747]

An Atkins style diet is one of the saner approaches to the pre-op diet for those docs who require them - much better than the all liquid type that some docs impose upon their patients (which has no particular rationale that I have been able to find.)

[riss523 26]

My dr just had us do basically a low/no fat, low cal, low card diet. It was actually a really easy to stick to!!!