but I've only lost 8 pounds since the start of my pre-op diet last Friday...

Am I surely shrinking my liver?

I started out at 197 and my BMI was 39 (I'm 5ft tall).

I'm worried about my liver being too large for the surgery.:wink0:

I also use the kiwi-strawberry Special K...any little bit helps, right?

I'm on my 4th day of liquids and broke down and ate 4 saltine crackers last night. I was afraid my Vitamins would make me sick, so I ate the crackers. My husband got so mad.

So, my question is...how low-carb is low-carb? I mean, is there a number of carbs I should stay under? I can't figure that part out. I can also have natural sugars, just not added sugars. I'm good on that...I'm just wondering about the carbs!

I don't believe in the liquid diet so I can't really answer your questions. But a lot of docs put their patients on things like Medifast. That's really easy because you just add Water to their packets and you've got the exact right mix of nutrients.

OTOH, any weight loss will shrink your liver. Low carb does it better but weight loss does it too.

Thing is, it takes quite a bit of weight loss to shrink your liver. Low carb burns the glycogen that makes the liver hard to work with.

Medifast... people don't usually like it but the doctors selling it and requiring people use that product do make a lot of money off the stuff. ;o)

I also use the kiwi-strawberry Special K...any little bit helps, right?

I'm on my 4th day of liquids and broke down and ate 4 saltine crackers last night. I was afraid my Vitamins would make me sick, so I ate the crackers. My husband got so mad.

So, my question is...how low-carb is low-carb? I mean, is there a number of carbs I should stay under? I can't figure that part out. I can also have natural sugars, just not added sugars. I'm good on that...I'm just wondering about the carbs!

Different doctors vary in what they want. Some want under 20, others want under 30gms from what I have seen.

Ash, I've read to stay under 30 and that's doable for me

I started AF today...hence the NO WEIGHT LOSS for the last few days!!!

I better be done before I leave for PV.

Ugh.....