Liquid diet

[tiffany44641 11]

What are the must haves for the liquid diet? My doc doesn't require the liquid diet or a diet at all Bc I'm going to be having the mini sleeve done. But I would like to still do the liquid diet for a week at least. Thanks

[Syaniya 319]

What are the must haves for the liquid diet? My doc doesn't require the liquid diet or a diet at all Bc I'm going to be having the mini sleeve done. But I would like to still do the liquid diet for a week at least. Thanks

Youll probably be doing it for 2 weeks after surgery too. My doc only required 1 day Clear Liquids before surgery, but 2 weeks after. This 2 weeks is still hard, got 1 week left to go

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[tiffany44641 11]

What are the must haves , I'm making a list for the store so I'm stocked up

[RickM 1,747]

Why do you want to do a liquid diet if there is no reason to do one? It doesn't promote any more weight loss than a normal diet of similar calories, nor does it "shrink the liver" any better than a solid diet of similar macro composition.

Given that you will probably be on a liquid, or more liquid intense, diet post of for a while and Protein is usually a big emphasis, it would be useful to experiment with the different Protein Shakes on the market to see which ones you like, or at least tolerate. But don't stock up too much on a preferred one as tastes may change post op (or they might not - YMMV)

BTW - what's a "mini-sleeve"? How much more mini, or simple, can a sleeve get?

[Sherrie Scharbrough 311]

Your focus should be the Protein first but some other things that usually are allowed are broth, which I bought and stil do because it is the very best taste that I have found is "BETTER THAN BOUILLON" it might cost a little more but you don't need to use as much as others. It comes in chicken OR BEEF. You can also buy a CHICKEN NOODLE Soup that has prtein added to it, BariatricPal Store sells it. When I had my surgery 3 and 1/2 years ago I had to do 2 weeks of liquids before and 4 weeks after my WLS. Believe me that Broth really taste good when you are just getting Protein Drinks that are cold. Good luck and may I ask what the MINI SLEEVE IS?

[tiffany44641 11]

A mini sleeve is the same as a gastric sleeve just minimally invasive . Only two incisions instead of 5 and they bring the part of your stomach that they cut out up through your esophagus

[tiffany44641 11]

Same weight loss as a gastric sleeve as well

[PatientEleventyBillion 851]

On 4/7/2017 at 4:39 PM, tiffany44641 said:

A mini sleeve is the same as a gastric sleeve just minimally invasive . Only two incisions instead of 5 and they bring the part of your stomach that they cut out up through your esophagus

That's cool. I've also seen videos of people being sleeved via scope as well.

To @RickM my RD put me on a 3 month liquid preop diet consisting of almost entirely Glucerna and Water. Each bottle of that crap not only tastes like s**t making me regurgitate the stuff but has 26g of carbs. My RD wanted me on 6 of those a day - over 150g of carbs a day on a liver shrinking diet. It costs 8 dollars a six pack for this so over the span of 3 months that's 700 to 800 dollars in food for us, not counting food my wife and daughter need as well. This is why I researched (not Google as its full of the fad diet garbage sites) the Keto diet and the fact that it's premise aligns directly with liver shrinking and thus weight loss.

The liquid diet is, I suspect, more a general safety net measure by RDs to gauge "compliance" by the patient. It's very clear with my RDs comments in the Canadian NetCare system that she's been pissed with my lack of compliance despite all my positive results. Which is why the surgery is moving forward without her being happy.

Edited April 13, 2017 by PatientEleventyBillion

[RickM 1,747]

8 hours ago, PatientEleventyBillion said:

That's cool. I've also seen videos of people being sleeved via scope as well.

To @RickM my RD put me on a 3 month liquid preop diet consisting of almost entirely Glucerna and Water. Each bottle of that crap not only tastes like s**t making me regurgitate the stuff but has 26g of carbs. My RD wanted me on 6 of those a day - over 150g of carbs a day on a liver shrinking diet. It costs 8 dollars a six pack for this so over the span of 3 months that's 700 to 800 dollars in food for us, not counting food my wife and daughter need as well. This is why I researched (not Google as its full of the fad diet garbage sites) the Keto diet and the fact that it's premise aligns directly with liver shrinking and thus weight loss.

The liquid diet is, I suspect, more a general safety net measure by RDs to gauge "compliance" by the patient. It's very clear with my RDs comments in the Canadian NetCare system that she's been pissed with my lack of compliance despite all my positive results. Which is why the surgery is moving forward without her being happy.

It sounds like the RD you were working with was just dispensing the standard diet sheet handed down from upon high by the surgeon or hospital, much as pharmacists spend much of their time simply counting pills per a computer order rather than getting to dispense the advice that they have the education and training to do. A good RD given a bit of freedom will work with the patient to affect the desired result within the tastes and tolerances of the patient. You are right though, that it seems that many pre-op programs seem to be devised to test a patient's tolerance and compliance.

Another thought is whether "liver shrinking" was a major intent of the diet, or some other rationale. A lot of surgeons aren't overly concerned with that.