Just wondering how long everyone's pre-op diet was/is?

2 weeks.

2 weeks.

1 day

2 weeks starting today!

Good luck with the diets and surgeries everyone! This liquid diet for pre-op is kicking my butt! Medifast products taste like dog food to me :-/

I just went through my surgeon's "webinar" about the surgery and they indicated patients do a high Protein diet (I'm assuming Optifast, but I don't know yet) for four weeks before surgery.

Gah.

I am having two surgeries, actually. I need to have a broken lap band removed, and then afterwards I want to have the sleeve. So, that's two four-week periods of the pre-op diet. Well, that should bring my weight down before the surgery so I guess it's not a bad thing, but I'm not looking forward to it.

3 days. Full liquids. Surgery was yesterday.

I was on a high protein shake diet for 2 weeks prior to my surgery and the day before my surgery I was on clear fluids.

Yay Stephanie!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery and a new you!

My Dr likes a two week pre op diet, but days almost no one follows it, so he requires 3 full days of a full liquids diet. I'm going to try very hard to do the 2 wk diet, with the last 3 days being completely liquid

Wow. My doctor must be the weird one. No pre-surgery diet (besides the don't eat 12 hours before the surgery thing). He said it wasn't necessary. Interesting.

Hmm! Maybe your bmi is lower? The object is to shrink your liver. Not to worry you, but that sounds strange

I only have to have clear liquids for 24 hours before surgery. Maybe it's because I was required to lose five percent of my body weight before surgery could be scheduled.

The hardest two weeks of my life but well worth it. I had lost 14 lbs by my surgery date!

2 weeks here too! On day 2...just keep telling myself I can do it lol.