Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2012 18:57:48 GMT -5
WAHOOOO!!!!! I am THRILLED to hear your dad is stepping up.
No clue what Optifast costs out of pocket. There is some amount of supervision involved with it, so you'd need to talk to whatever doc you use for it.
My chiropractor is touting a program called Ideal Protein that I think sounds interesting and fairly reasonable in its approach. No idea what that costs either. You could Google it up and find a provider offering the program by location, if I understood the presentation correctly. It's a combination of their products and real food.
What I think is important for you at this point is that you get involved in something formal, structured, and very focused. A *lot* of people do better withstanding these kinds of diets if they are like that. It also shows anyone who might have cause to wonder (which some surgeons do, and your dad might, and whoever else) that you are dead serious about moving forward. So I see some psychological benefits in doing it that way....for the right personality, anyhow.
When I did my preop diet, I used a meal replacement offered by Reliv, which is a MLM supplement company, for lunch. Breakfast was always the same, a measured amount of Kashi cereal mixed with Greek yogurt and a scoop of protein powder. Dinner was basically meat and veggies, very low fat, or one of those "diet" entrees like Healthy Choice and a salad. Snacks were another yogurt, a piece of fruit, and raw veggies. I lost about fifteen pounds in six weeks, so it was neither rapid nor drastic...But it was something I could DO, and that's what counted.
I am pretty oppositional by nature, so I would not have done well in an Optifast or similar program. What's important is finding something you can really grab by the horns and do fullbore for a limited time, so you get the needed benefit for surgery from it.
How's the cardiology evaluation coming? Any word on the circulation thing?
No clue what Optifast costs out of pocket. There is some amount of supervision involved with it, so you'd need to talk to whatever doc you use for it.
My chiropractor is touting a program called Ideal Protein that I think sounds interesting and fairly reasonable in its approach. No idea what that costs either. You could Google it up and find a provider offering the program by location, if I understood the presentation correctly. It's a combination of their products and real food.
What I think is important for you at this point is that you get involved in something formal, structured, and very focused. A *lot* of people do better withstanding these kinds of diets if they are like that. It also shows anyone who might have cause to wonder (which some surgeons do, and your dad might, and whoever else) that you are dead serious about moving forward. So I see some psychological benefits in doing it that way....for the right personality, anyhow.
When I did my preop diet, I used a meal replacement offered by Reliv, which is a MLM supplement company, for lunch. Breakfast was always the same, a measured amount of Kashi cereal mixed with Greek yogurt and a scoop of protein powder. Dinner was basically meat and veggies, very low fat, or one of those "diet" entrees like Healthy Choice and a salad. Snacks were another yogurt, a piece of fruit, and raw veggies. I lost about fifteen pounds in six weeks, so it was neither rapid nor drastic...But it was something I could DO, and that's what counted.
I am pretty oppositional by nature, so I would not have done well in an Optifast or similar program. What's important is finding something you can really grab by the horns and do fullbore for a limited time, so you get the needed benefit for surgery from it.
How's the cardiology evaluation coming? Any word on the circulation thing?