I have my surgery on the 15th and I have been on medifast for about 8 weeks now. I am on a 2 day liquid before a 1 day clear liquid diet before the surgery. I looked on this site a little and havent seen anyone who was required to lose 10 perecent (over 30 pounds for me) before the surgery, I had to get weighed in every week by a nurse. Just wondering if anyone else had such an extensive weight loss program. The doctor team im going to does over 800 surgeries a year and it will be laproscopic so im sure they know what they are doing but I am feeling like this is a little much. I am a 25 yr old male and in "very good health for my weight" Did anyone else have a similar pre op program?

I have my surgery on the 15th and I have been on medifast for about 8 weeks now. I am on a 2 day liquid before a 1 day clear liquid diet before the surgery. I looked on this site a little and havent seen anyone who was required to lose 10 perecent (over 30 pounds for me) before the surgery, I had to get weighed in every week by a nurse. Just wondering if anyone else had such an extensive weight loss program. The doctor team im going to does over 800 surgeries a year and it will be laproscopic so im sure they know what they are doing but I am feeling like this is a little much. I am a 25 yr old male and in "very good health for my weight" Did anyone else have a similar pre op program?

Hey - insurance required me to lose 10% of weight from my heaviest documented weight. Luckily I didn't have to be weighed in ever week. My heaviest weight was in March of this year when I took part in a "Biggest Loser" program at work. Luckily my team decided to Water load right before we weighed in so I was actually heavier than my real heaviest weight. Yep - kind of cheating but that was before I knew I'd be doing this and it actually helped me here. Granted - you can only hold so much water before you feel like you're going to explode!

Hey - insurance required me to lose 10% of weight from my heaviest documented weight. Luckily I didn't have to be weighed in ever week. My heaviest weight was in March of this year when I took part in a "Biggest Loser" program at work. Luckily my team decided to Water load right before we weighed in so I was actually heavier than my real heaviest weight. Yep - kind of cheating but that was before I knew I'd be doing this and it actually helped me here. Granted - you can only hold so much water before you feel like you're going to explode!

Im glad im not the only one who had to lose 10 percent. I did one of those biggest loser things and i ate a ton of chinese food the week before so i would retain water. The office i went to would hassle me if i did not lose like 3 to 4 pounds a week. between the weigh ins and all the other times i had to go there they were on my butt the whole time. Im happy they were on me so much becaues if they were not I might not have lost much before my surgery (in 2 days!!!!)

my insurance only states that i have to lose some weight.... there is NO SPECIFIC amount at all....i had to do a 6 month weight mgmt program with my pcp and to document that i am trying at least before my surgery...... between august til present ive only lost about 5 pounds... my suregery is in january i may push it til the first week of feb .... but i just want to lose at least 5 to 10 pounds on my own.... i have been doing liquid diets on my own like 2 days a week so that when i have to to a 2 week liquid diet before the surgery i dont feel like im dying!

good luck with your surgery! bless you and happy holidays

i had to do 5% (12 lbs) and have it documented, so every time i went to a support meeting or a pre-surgical meeting they weighed me, and thank god for that because as soon as i lost the 12 i was able to submit it all to insurance. Now i have my surgery in 2 days...60 days after i started this whole process =)

I had to lose 30 pounds before my surgery too! I didn't think I could do it but i never cheated and everytime I got worried I hopped on my elliptical machine and I lost the weight. I used atkins shakes and low carb.... very low carb!

Im glad im not the only one who had to lose 10 percent. I did one of those biggest loser things and i ate a ton of chinese food the week before so i would retain Water. The office i went to would hassle me if i did not lose like 3 to 4 pounds a week. between the weigh ins and all the other times i had to go there they were on my butt the whole time. Im happy they were on me so much becaues if they were not I might not have lost much before my surgery (in 2 days!!!!)

So today was the big day - i hope it went well! I guess technically it was yesterday since it's after midnight now. Hope you're feeling okay and good luck on your journey!

Im coming along ok.my port site hurts and is oozing a little. The nurse said it was ok but im uncofortable alot but every few hours i feel better and better. I have not eaten anything besides water and juice since monday 12/13/10 .i would kill to be able to drink choclate milk now but they say i have to wait a couple more days.