If your surgery is uneventful, it's possible you won't need any help from anyone. However, you will have to stock up in advance so you have the foods you need for the liquid phase of your diet and possibly all the way through the soft food phase. The surgery is not debilitating and if you have a laparoscopic procedure, you are enthusiastically encouraged to move your body, walk, move your arms and generally just work the gas out of your body through your muscles and skin.