Waiting for gastric bypass on NHS

[debi]

Hi, this is my first time on the forum and looking for advice. I am waiting for a date for my surgery, but to-date no date has been given to me. I have had many appointments with various members of the team, open afternoons with other patients so I just have to wait patiently. I have got the cambridge diets to start but not sure when i should start them, as thought it was 2-3 weeks before surgery but not sure when to as not got a date. Also, I did try lighter life before going for surgery and collapsed on it, so my GP is not keen on me doing cambridge diet, so not sure what I should do. I am very over weight hence the surgery but was watching fat surgeons the other night on the tv and am not as big as the gentleman who was having surgery so dont think there will any problem the surgeon finding my liver. Any advice I can get from anyone as to what to eat before surgery, do I start the liquid diet now and just wait. Am getting so stressed as really want this op and my life to start again. Thanks for reading.

 

[Tourny]

It's probably a good idea to figure out why you collapsed on the previous diet before limiting what you can eat with bypass surgery that can't be undone.

I would hope that's what the doctors are doing but I'd also expect them to say so.


Lighter life looks to combine Very low calorie (530 reputedly) and low carb dieting, cambridge is a similar calorie count (and I think high protein).


Didn't realise that all these lighter life adverts on television recently are "that" diet, seriously dangerous and not advisable (caused death recently).

NHS can take about a year to get you listed for bypass surgery, and that's if nothing goes wrong.


Start a simple, moderate diet now. work out your daily caloric maintenance requirements (resting metabolic rate multiplied by activity level) based on your ideal weight rather than your current weight and take off 500-1000 calories (try not to go below 1200 as a bare minimum)