Pre-op diet

How much weight did some of you guys loose during your liquid pre-op diet.   Just curious.

Strangely, when I had both of my RNYs--original and a revision--neither surgeon required a pre-op liquid diet.  They didn't require a pre-op diet of any kind.  The original surgeon said that the surgery would enable me to lose weight.  And, I weighed 571 at the time of the first RNY.

I was at 457 lbs and was asked not to gain anymore weight.  I lost about 20 lbs before surgery.

I was below the BMI needed for approval.  Lung problems got me approved - did a no no b4 surgery.  had a weekend  foodfest seafood , steak anything I could push through my mouth.
those days are gone now.

No liquid diet required for me either.... Just told to lose 15 lbs.( So far i've lost 30)

Dave

I didn't have to do the liquid diet...was just asked to lose about 10-15 pounds before.  Again they want you to lose the weight so the surgeons have easier access to work around the liver.  The weightloss helps both you and the surgeon.

I was on the Medifast liquid diet for 4 weeks and lost about 45 pounds prior to surgery.  almost 10 pounds over the 10% weight loss they liked to see.  The liquid diet was not all that bad and I think helped to break my pre-op eating habits prior to my surgery.

If you have any questions, send me an email, or make another post.

Jim

6lbs

I'm down 25lbs so far and am down to 401.  I started doing the preop diet a month before i was supposed to but then ended up having a week of last meals before my cutoff date on the 17th.  I'm so hungry i almost cheated toniight but thankfully talked myself out of it.  Only 6 more days to go....my rny is on the 5th.  On Tuesday I go on my water only diet.

Thanks guys,  I was just curious.  I lost 15 lbs. in a week and have 1 more to go.  I was not sure if that was too much or not enough.