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I'm curious as to why there are so many different "pre-op" diets. I know each doctor has their own set of "rules" and different diets. But just curious why some doctors have a patient on a two week liquid diet while another doctor might do only a week. Some say you can have this, while others say you can't have that.
I'm scheduled for the sleeve on 6/21. Starting on the 7th (two week time frame) I'm on what they called a ketotic diet. I can have 3 proteins/1 fat for Breakfast, 5oz proteins/1 fat for both lunch & dinner plus a snack containing a protein/fat. Then 24 hrs before surgery it's a complete liquid diet.
I haven't even started my pre op diet yet but in my head I'm already complaining on how hungry I'm going to be. Now, reading how many people are on just liquids for 2 weeks, I'm just gonna shut my mouth and be thankful for the diet my doctor gave me.

I'm curious as to why there are so many different "pre-op" diets. I know each doctor has their own set of "rules" and different diets. But just curious why some doctors have a patient on a two week liquid diet while another doctor might do only a week. Some say you can have this, while others say you can't have that.
I'm scheduled for the sleeve on 6/21. Starting on the 7th (two week time frame) I'm on what they called a ketotic diet. I can have 3 proteins/1 fat for Breakfast, 5oz proteins/1 fat for both lunch & dinner plus a snack containing a protein/fat. Then 24 hrs before surgery it's a complete liquid diet.
I haven't even started my pre op diet yet but in my head I'm already complaining on how hungry I'm going to be. Now, reading how many people are on just liquids for 2 weeks, I'm just gonna shut my mouth and be thankful for the diet my doctor gave me.

I'm curious as to why there are so many different "pre-op" diets. I know each doctor has their own set of "rules" and different diets. But just curious why some doctors have a patient on a two week liquid diet while another doctor might do only a week. Some say you can have this, while others say you can't have that.
I'm scheduled for the sleeve on 6/21. Starting on the 7th (two week time frame) I'm on what they called a ketotic diet. I can have 3 proteins/1 fat for Breakfast, 5oz proteins/1 fat for both lunch & dinner plus a snack containing a protein/fat. Then 24 hrs before surgery it's a complete liquid diet.
I haven't even started my pre op diet yet but in my head I'm already complaining on how hungry I'm going to be. Now, reading how many people are on just liquids for 2 weeks, I'm just gonna shut my mouth and be thankful for the diet my doctor gave me.

We have 4 people in our household. Me, my husband and our two boys (19 & 20). This amount is the amount I budget each week. It includes food, paper goods, cleaning supplies, everything. We don't drink so that's not a factor and have no pets.
I usually make a menu each week of what I'll be making for dinners and what the boys will be taking for their lunches and then I make a grocery list from that plus all the regular every week stuff that I buy.
Aside from Vitamins, is there anything else that I'll need to be buying post op?

There are two places your body stores sugar as fuel: your liver, and your muscles. Stored sugar is called glycogen. Glycogen molecules are attached to Water molecules at a ratio of 1:4, so for every ounce of glycogen you've got in your liver, you've got another 4 ounces of Water. Much of the weight loss on a preop diet or other low-carb diet initially is the glycogen and the water.
Once you deplete glycogen (by limiting carbs), eating carbs again causes you to restore glycogen and water - so the "weight gain" from going off a low carb regimen is actually lean mass and water, not fat.
Hope this helps!

What @@Bufflehead said. Losing weight alone doesn't reduce the size of your liver. It is what you are eating. And weight loss is just often a byproduct of the liver reduction diet. Some surgeons will use it as an indicator of whether a patient actually stuck to the pre-op diet as well.

It isn't weight loss that causes the size of your liver to shrink, it's eating a low-carb, low-sugar, low-calorie diet. This forces the liver to extract its stored energy and use. Eating that kind of diet also usually causes weight loss, for sure, but they don't necessarily have to go together. Two people could eat the same diet for two weeks before surgery and lose different amounts of weight due to different starting weights, faster metabolism, diffferent muscle density, one person retained more Water, the other person exercised more, etc. But their livers should shrink roughly the same amount just based on their food intake. So, don't worry about how much you or anyone else loses, just worry about how well you comply with your pre-op diet plan