My program doesn't have a specific weight loss requirement. I went to a group last night and many people lost a significant amount pre surgery. I'm feeling like I haven't lost enough and I won't be as successful! Am I stressing unnecessarily over this?

Hey, everyone lose at their own rate. I lose 11 lbs so far, and my surgeon was very pleased. My surgery is 12/3 and starting liver diet so a few more lbs will shed hopefully. He said, the more I lose the easier will be for me. the liver need to shrink so the surgeon can get to the stomach.. So to answer your question, the more you lose the better it will be for you. Best of luck!

I've lost 27 lbs so far on the liver diet. 3 months.

I lost 4 lbs before surgery, but I wasn't on a liquid diet or any pre-surgery diet. My surgeon's nurse just scared me to death when she said I had better not gain weight because it would really tick my doctor off.

I lost 4 lbs while at the same time doing a last hurrah for two weeks of eating ice cream, sushi, Indian food, etc.

I lost 20 lb before surgery doing low carb for about a month. My pre-surgery diet was 2 weeks of 20 grams carbs or less. My doctor didn't have any goals for weight lost before surgery. In fact they didn't even weigh me the day of. You can still be very successful if you can't lose weight before. If it were super easy to lose weight we wouldn't all be getting the sleeve as a tool to help us. Once you are sleeved, you will not be able to keep up bad habits because your body will not let you. Eventually you will be able to eat almost anything but hopefully by then you will have broken the bad habits and learned the sleeve way of living.

I did Atkins for two weeks and lost 12 lbs. I also went to a buffet two days before surgery, knowing it would be my last. I freaked OUT before surgery though... Thinking that binge fest made my liver huge. I'm SO glad I ate that Buffett.

Sent from my iPhone using VST

20 pre op, + 30 post op. sleeved oct 3.

Done Did It!

I only lost 10 lbs pre op. That's what my surgeon had asked me to lose. I lost 8 of that doing the 7 day full liquid diet prior to my surgery. And, I even had 4 months from my 1st surgeon visit til I got thru their program before surgery. I wasn't very successful at losing weight prior to surgery as you can tell.

So far 18 and have my final weigh in for the 6 month monitored Dec 6.

I lost 22lbs pre-surgery and just got sleeved Monday and I have not weighed myself yet. My doctor did not give me a goal, so I set my own for 20lbs..

I lost about 20 lb pre op and ate most an atkins diet. No food funerals for me.

I lost 25kg which I think is 55lbs? I had 9 months to lose I though. Originally was going to have the band but changed my mind 3-4 months pre surgery because my doctor just got a grant from the government to perform 20 public VSG's. I was the first sleeve operation to be performed in the public hospital. Exciting, but the nursing staff had never nursed someone who'd had this operation so it was a learning curve for everyone!

Shaker, where are you from?

Hi mrs Gina =) I'm from the southwest of Western Australia

Shaker, that is so cool. I love hearing from other countries. Hope all goes well with you.