Dr Nowzaradan (Dr Now) does Bariatric Surgery on the morbidly obese on the My 600lb Life tv show in USA.
The food plan is outlined in his book above.
I have never personally had the bariatric surgery.
However I was in a different hospital in Australia and the specialists treating me in 2009 for a totally unrelated issue asked me to see their bariatric surgeon as I was morbidity obese for my weight and height (but i was no where near the 600lb people Dr Now treated but i did feel like the drs saw me as that big.) I reluctantly met the surgeon at my hospital bedside to see what he had to say. I didn’t even want the surgery. He said to me I was not a candidate even though my bmi was over 40 at the time. (BMI needs to be 25 or less). He agreed that I could lose the weight by following the Optifast diet by my Dr follow-ups. So he put me on it while i was in hospital. It did work for those next 18 months. I was closely monitored by a endocrinologist. I did have success and got within 5kg of my total goal weight through alot of hard work with diet and exercise.
The only problem was I needed lung surgery and the result of the diagnosis of the lung issues were to put me on a chemo cytoxic drug and prednisone which just undid all the hard work I had done to lose those 35kilos. As a result of the prednizone and my body not working the way it should I then regained 48kilos. It was a huge struggled ever since to get the weight off over the last 10 years. Nothing budged. It wasn’t coming off no matter what diet they put me on even doing keto back then with the fast 5:2/the fast 800 diet by Dr Michael Mosley. From 2000 – 2023 I gained a further 13kgs to weigh in at my heaviest weight ever.
Fast forward to Sept 2023 I was diagnosed with cancer and I was losing weight with that but it wasn’t the way to do it. In 2024 I had surgery for the cancer and was then told I was cancer free at the 6 week post op appointment.
In july 2025 being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes which saw me needing to do something different which was only possible by starting the recipes in Dr Nowzaradan book to kick start me off in December 2025 – February 2026 and I then have switched back to the keto diet but also making some of the fast 800 recipesi Dr Mosley books as well as my own recipes.
I have finally managed to lose 18kilos in the last 12 months.
Here are the meals I made following Dr Nowzaradan book.
Cook with Barb 