I am having my surgery at the end of may and I have to loose 12-15lbs before that, any suggestions or what anyone else ate to loose this weight? Thank you all for your help!

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How about a modified version of Atkin's to "lose" the weight?

Someone here gave me the suggestion of Protein shakes morning and night with a meal at noon. It did help me shed a few pounds.

Emily

I lost a lot of weight during pre-op doing the "modified atkins". No carbs, No Sugar, a protein shake for breakfast and/or lunch and lean meats with veggies up to 2X a day. I think I lost 11 or 12 lbs in 2 weeks doing this.

Cool... thanks to all of y'all!! I am so excited, yet scared... I am the most scared of the pre-op testing, the thought of the blood work makes me want to barf... LOL! Need to bet getting over that! Thanks again!

During my 2 week pre-op diet I lost 16 lbs.

The first week of the pre-op diet I was allowed ONLY chicken, yougurt, cottage cheese, and green veg. NOTHING else. I also only drank Water, and crystal light.

The first 3 days were the hardest: I went thru carb withdrawal really badly and had headaches etc and was irritable! (ask my husband! lol).

The second week all I could have was yougurt and cottage cheese...and since I don't like cottage cheese I only had yougurt. Yup, yougurt every day for seven days and nothing else. It got easier! But, it lost me 16 lbs and more importantly enabled the surgery to go really well. According to my doc the liver was in excellent shape and very manageable because of the weight loss.

The bonus is....it's prob not as difficult for me right now (post op) wrt not eating since I already was so accustomed to eating very little!

Good luck. NOt easy but worth it!