My doc has me on a one week,low fat/low cal liquid diet. Oddly enough, they told me not to expect to lose weight :cry that it was just to shrink my liver. But, there is no way you could NOT lose weight on it.

Anyway, does anyone know what I SHOULD be losing on a one week low cal low fat LD???? What is reasonable??? Today is my 6th day and I have lost 8 lbs. Is that too little/too much???? I want to make sure my liver is shrunken properly.

Hey! I've lost 11 lbs on mine in about 11 days! I think you are doing great!:clap2:

I told my mom that my surgeon had better be very complimentary of my liver after going through two weeks of this liquid diet thing!

Can't wait til' Friday! ITS BAND TIME!!! Good Luck sister!

How much you will lose depends on your age, sex, weight and metabolism. My surgeon also required a one week pre-op liquid diet that averaged about 700-800 calories a day. The average weight loss in his patients for that week was 5-12 pounds but a lot of that "weight" is water weight. As your surgeon stated, the purpose of the diet is to shrink the liver to make the surgery easier. Good luck!

Okay, so I'm at least on track for the average. I'm working SO hard at this. I haven't been cheating and my stomach won't quit growling. I can't beleive I've stuck to it this long!!! I feel like I'm in the home stretch. I just don't want to show up and have my doc say I should've lost 20 lbs by now and he can't do the surgery. Of course I'm fearing that they will cut me open and not put a band in. As long as I know I'm in line with what's to be expected, I'm good. I don't care about WL at this point for WL sake. I just want to make sure I'm on track and shrinking my liver.

8 pounds is excellent. My surgeon says that 5-10 pounds makes a huge difference when he does surgery... Excellent job!

I lost 10 pounds on my pre-op diet and that was a 10 day liquid diet as well.

My surgeon told me that my liver looked fabulous and he can always tell who has adhered to the diet and who hasn't. That sure gave me some motivation on those tough liquid days.

good luck to you!

Hey sisterfunkhaus,

I was on a liquid pre-op diet for 7 days and lost 8 pounds. I lost an additional 7 pounds during the post-op diet and, although I know people are right when they say there's a lot of water weight loss which may come back when you start eating food again, it hasn't happened that way for me. I've been steadily losing in small increments since I began 'real' food again! So, definitely be happy about the liquid diet weight loss, your surgeon will be happy about it too - and there's no reason not to hope for that weight loss to be sustained post op! Here's to hoping! Cheers!

Good luck with your surgery and on your weight loss journey!

TY guys!!! Your positive words and this board have helped me get through this in a big way!!!